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The big mac index seems a bit trickier to calculate now that mcdonalds app users pay half price for one.
There were coupons before apps.
In Austin, most of the restaurants suck and are expensive. Even the pizza is terrible. Tacos are everywhere, but burritos not so much. There are a few good places. But there's really no point when I can cook better than 99% of them. A similar situation is true with meal delivery because DoorDash and Favor drivers deliver cold, shitty, expensive food that's often wrong. They suck. Regular Amazon can barely deliver ord…
shrugs idk, I'm prob just spoiled after being SoCal for so long. My next move will def be to somewhere with good food.
In Austin, most of the restaurants suck and are expensive. Even the pizza is terrible. Tacos are everywhere, but burritos not so much. There are a few good places. But there's really no point when I can cook better than 99% of them. A similar situation is true with meal delivery because DoorDash and Favor drivers deliver cold, shitty, expensive food that's often wrong. They suck. Regular Amazon can barely deliver ord…
Austin is brutal for eating out compared to 1st class cities. Everything is mediocre at best and expensive. Silly anecdote but I've started ordering delivery pizza from a deep dish Chicago (frozen and shipped) place and the price is comparable to the pizza chain down the street from me. The Chicago pizza is drastically better than what gets delivered locally. shrugs idk, I'm prob just spoiled after being SoCal for so…
I don't eat out because I'm chronically cheap. But after I stopped drinking magically the cost of eating out came down to Earth. But post Pandy, it's not just the cost of eating out. It's also the service, if you can find any. Most restaurants are wildly understaffed and the staff is terrible. I've worked service jobs most of my life before switching to tech so I understand more than most how rude customers are and h…
Meet rude introductions with polite responses. If that fails meet rude mid game with a compliment. If that fails meet rude end game with thank you for your hard work. If that fails close with a generous tip.
You are much better off emotionally than they are at this point and may be the one that solves the problem for others they serve for the rest of the day.
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I eat out all the time at cheap and expensive restaurants and don’t have trouble finding service, I guess if you need the employees to dote over you that could be a problem but I just order eat the food and leave. What sort of service are you searching for?
I'm not expecting employees to dote. I'm expecting them not to be morons who can't get the order right, bring the food cold, or (a recent experience), notice when they charged everything on the bill twice. It's not rocket science to glance at a $300+ bill for a table that had one appetizer, 2 mains, and 2 or 3 drinks and wonder if that's right. Or don't leave food on the table and us with no silverware. As other peop…
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There were coupons before apps.
While true they might not have been given out at the same rate. I expect only mcdonalds knows the true year over year average price people are paying in a particular market.