17 Comments on The Latest Prices at Your Favorite Restaurants
I change my oil more than I frequent a restaurant. Valvoline wants $90 for a full synthetic oil change? Or you can goto Farm & Fleet, pick up a 5 qt jug with $10 rebate from Valvoline and a $10 Wix filter for $34 total after tax. Then you don’t have some pimply faced teenager cross thread your bunghole, drop oil in some random parking lot, and pay for a tow to have it re-tapped. Ask me how I know.
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The Tomahawk Steak is only $136 bucks at Ruth Chris’s.
A steakhouse at Caesars Palace in Vegas charges $375 for a 48 oz tomahawk.
Of course they do prepare it tableside…
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We rarely eat out – because I like to know whose serving me and what they’re serving me, and where their hands have been. I’m not lazy, I enjoy cooking.
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I almost never eat out, I’m already being forced-fed too much crap from the government.
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What we need to see is the price trends over the past few years. It would be frightening. I know the prices have gone up dramatically, but I don’t know the details.
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Don’t need an app, just take the price you remember and double it.
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I was a plumber.
I worked in mess halls, cafeterias, carry-outs, and restaurants.
After working in the various kitchens for 36 years I don’t eat out unless I’m on a road trip (and even then I usually stop at a grocery store to buy food).
Those kitchens were disgusting, bug-infested, filthy, and the maggots working there didn’t GAF about personal hygiene.
But, my experiences were very limited, considering how many food places there are in America.
mortem tyrannis
izlamo delenda est …
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Denny’s???
Around here it’s considered the drunk tank!
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“Then you don’t have some pimply faced teenager cross thread your bunghole, drop oil in some random parking lot, and pay for a tow to have it re-tapped. Ask me how I know.”
Been there with my first (and last) oil change at the dealership I bought a brand spanking new car from. Except mine was on a two lane highway coming home from Illinois. I was fortunate I was passing through a small town and a gas station nearby had some plugs that were meant to find out what size you needed and he let me keep it.
These days I need to use a new crush washer with my Titan’s plug and I don’t trust an oil change shop to have a new one to put on it.
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The local “hobby farm” in my neighborhood sells apple pies. A month ago they wanted $10. It is now $15.
As far as restaurants, I would prefer to never dine out, but then again, I am married, and wish to remain so.
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Steak & seafood platter for 2 (My Wife) at La Castile Toronto
We sub out the Fillet Mignon with 2 Rib Eyes
2 steaks
2 Lobster tails
Jumbo Shrimp
King Crab legs
Scallops – My Fav.
Seared asparagus
Grilled red peppers
Broccoli & baked Potato with sour cream & chives
$300 Canuckistan Plus drinks, with plenty to take home in a PIGGY Bag.
I try to do it once a year.
Cheers.
Lemon Wedges, Hot Butter
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@ Tim – FJB
I hear you.
HVAC.
SSDD.
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One more thing, I can well afford to eat out now and then. When I go to the grocery store, it about chokes me to death on the prices. How more it would sicken me paying an establishment far more than what it costs me to cook….and a 20% tip on top of it. No thanks.
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There is an excellent local sub shop just down the street, I go in the summer when it’s too hot to cook. Subs got smaller and prices went up.
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15 dollars for a hamburger and fries.
just got back from a week at the mountains, watching the leaves change (gorgeous), the deer down by the dock of the lake, real wood fires, just relaxing & recharging
anyway, they had an Uno’s there (deep dish Chicago-style pizza … 12″ horkin’ doughballs w/ marinara sauce … ugh), but Wednesday was Senior day (over 55), & Seniors get 40% off their meals. She Who Must Be Obeyed got the steak fajitas … 4 10′ fajitas w/ all the fixings on 2 plates & sizzling slabs of medium rare steak w/ onions & mushrooms. I got the ribs & wings … huge 1/2 slab rib rack w/ a full plate of wings. w/ cocktails (liquor was full price) came to about $45! … we took half home & had it for dinner & still didn’t finish it all … the dog loved the left-over steak & ribs too!
the local chain restaurants (Crapplebee’s, Outback, etc.) are getting too expensive. notice how everyone orders water w/ lemon nowdays? … add some sugar &, voila! lemonade! … instead of a 3 buck soda. we usually just split an order & no longer tip an automatic 20% … if the service is lousy … so is the tip.
used to eat out every day. like TonyR said, if I had my druthers I’d eat good homecooked meals at home, but I’m married too …. ‘though, we have cut back to eating out a couple of times a week … & I cringe w/ every check
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X-pat living in Playa del Carmen, Q Roo, Mx.
I cook frequently, fresh ingredients, good meat & fish here.
Took 2 amigos to lunch, I had a grilled whole fish, they shared a Cevicha platter.
9 beers among us ……….
$60US
I change my oil more than I frequent a restaurant. Valvoline wants $90 for a full synthetic oil change? Or you can goto Farm & Fleet, pick up a 5 qt jug with $10 rebate from Valvoline and a $10 Wix filter for $34 total after tax. Then you don’t have some pimply faced teenager cross thread your bunghole, drop oil in some random parking lot, and pay for a tow to have it re-tapped. Ask me how I know.
The Tomahawk Steak is only $136 bucks at Ruth Chris’s.
A steakhouse at Caesars Palace in Vegas charges $375 for a 48 oz tomahawk.
Of course they do prepare it tableside…
We rarely eat out – because I like to know whose serving me and what they’re serving me, and where their hands have been. I’m not lazy, I enjoy cooking.
I almost never eat out, I’m already being forced-fed too much crap from the government.
What we need to see is the price trends over the past few years. It would be frightening. I know the prices have gone up dramatically, but I don’t know the details.
Don’t need an app, just take the price you remember and double it.
I was a plumber.
I worked in mess halls, cafeterias, carry-outs, and restaurants.
After working in the various kitchens for 36 years I don’t eat out unless I’m on a road trip (and even then I usually stop at a grocery store to buy food).
Those kitchens were disgusting, bug-infested, filthy, and the maggots working there didn’t GAF about personal hygiene.
But, my experiences were very limited, considering how many food places there are in America.
mortem tyrannis
izlamo delenda est …
Denny’s???
Around here it’s considered the drunk tank!
“Then you don’t have some pimply faced teenager cross thread your bunghole, drop oil in some random parking lot, and pay for a tow to have it re-tapped. Ask me how I know.”
Been there with my first (and last) oil change at the dealership I bought a brand spanking new car from. Except mine was on a two lane highway coming home from Illinois. I was fortunate I was passing through a small town and a gas station nearby had some plugs that were meant to find out what size you needed and he let me keep it.
These days I need to use a new crush washer with my Titan’s plug and I don’t trust an oil change shop to have a new one to put on it.
The local “hobby farm” in my neighborhood sells apple pies. A month ago they wanted $10. It is now $15.
As far as restaurants, I would prefer to never dine out, but then again, I am married, and wish to remain so.
Steak & seafood platter for 2 (My Wife) at La Castile Toronto
We sub out the Fillet Mignon with 2 Rib Eyes
2 steaks
2 Lobster tails
Jumbo Shrimp
King Crab legs
Scallops – My Fav.
Seared asparagus
Grilled red peppers
Broccoli & baked Potato with sour cream & chives
$300 Canuckistan Plus drinks, with plenty to take home in a PIGGY Bag.
I try to do it once a year.
Cheers.
Lemon Wedges, Hot Butter
@ Tim – FJB
I hear you.
HVAC.
SSDD.
One more thing, I can well afford to eat out now and then. When I go to the grocery store, it about chokes me to death on the prices. How more it would sicken me paying an establishment far more than what it costs me to cook….and a 20% tip on top of it. No thanks.
There is an excellent local sub shop just down the street, I go in the summer when it’s too hot to cook. Subs got smaller and prices went up.
15 dollars for a hamburger and fries.
just got back from a week at the mountains, watching the leaves change (gorgeous), the deer down by the dock of the lake, real wood fires, just relaxing & recharging
anyway, they had an Uno’s there (deep dish Chicago-style pizza … 12″ horkin’ doughballs w/ marinara sauce … ugh), but Wednesday was Senior day (over 55), & Seniors get 40% off their meals. She Who Must Be Obeyed got the steak fajitas … 4 10′ fajitas w/ all the fixings on 2 plates & sizzling slabs of medium rare steak w/ onions & mushrooms. I got the ribs & wings … huge 1/2 slab rib rack w/ a full plate of wings. w/ cocktails (liquor was full price) came to about $45! … we took half home & had it for dinner & still didn’t finish it all … the dog loved the left-over steak & ribs too!
the local chain restaurants (Crapplebee’s, Outback, etc.) are getting too expensive. notice how everyone orders water w/ lemon nowdays? … add some sugar &, voila! lemonade! … instead of a 3 buck soda. we usually just split an order & no longer tip an automatic 20% … if the service is lousy … so is the tip.
used to eat out every day. like TonyR said, if I had my druthers I’d eat good homecooked meals at home, but I’m married too …. ‘though, we have cut back to eating out a couple of times a week … & I cringe w/ every check
X-pat living in Playa del Carmen, Q Roo, Mx.
I cook frequently, fresh ingredients, good meat & fish here.
Took 2 amigos to lunch, I had a grilled whole fish, they shared a Cevicha platter.
9 beers among us ……….
$60US