I Looked Into Why Restaurant Quality Is Declining. What I Found Is SHOCKING

If you want to discuss whether the unemployed should eat out, start a thread. Otherwise, you just made my point.

There is no going out to any restaurant; fast food, fast casual or sit down, that is cheaper than preparing foods at home. I do most of the cooking around here and I like to shop the specials as well as the regular stuff. I can spend $14 bucks on salad ingredients and make 6 dinner salads out of it. That would cost somewhere around $90 if we were to go out to dinner. I can purchase 93% lean hamburger at $7 bucks a pound and make 6 hefty burgers. We all know the fatty meat McDonalds uses, once cooked, that 1/4 pounder is more like a 3 oz patty. Its still costing you $6.50 just for the burger and that doesn't include cheese.

I called on all the fast casual and fast food headquarters at one point in my career. Wendy's used to be an "A" brand. I was calling on the President a few years after Dave Thomas died. They were totally unprepared for his death and put their largest franchisee in as President. They quickly ran the brand into the ground. The President wanted to cut costs instead of keeping the brand associated with quality and Dave. The very first thing they did was lower the quality of meat and start shipping it frozen. Second was buy chicken cheaper for their chicken sandwich which had been their biggest profit margin in some parts of the country. It has never recovered. The franchisee who was president was replaced by an even bigger spoiled inherited idiot, died, his family sold the franchise, of which only half are still operating and the whole Wendy's brand sucks.

Bad business decisions come from everywhere, not just from no name conglomerate ownership.

I don’t think anyone is talking about eating cat food at home.

the discussion was around whether or not fast food is less expensive than cooking at home since most working class/lower income folks do the former out of convenience.

the quick math says that it’s decidedly less expensive to eat reasonably well(steak, fish, veggies etc etc) at home as opposed to going to McDonald’s.

My only experience with fast food nowadays is when the kids are begging for Burger Master or 5 Guys and we try to limit that because it’s not great for you…not because of the price point.

We usually eat at home during the week because it’s just easier on our schedules to have something meal prepped with sports and shit because you’re not going to have time to take them out to dinner at 5pm before football practice and when it ends at 7:30, your options are either run them through the drive thru or just get them home for the pasta that you meal prepped the day before or whatever.

Hale thinks eating at home means people are eating cat food.

Brilliant.