Can someone please explain why food is so fucking expensive nowadays? , found this old menu from a restaurant named "Sambo's". Look at those fucking prices ?! 3 dollars for a fucking N.Y. steak dinner.
>>56771321
>Can someone please explain why food is so fucking expensive nowadays?
Obamacare
Because farm subsidies
>>56771407
explain.
>>56771321
Inflation.
>>56771321
Inflation and greed
>>56771321
Inflation, higher cost of living, minimum wages etc
"Sambo's"
HAW
>>56771321
six sambo cakes are only 60 cents !
>>56771321
>Sambo's
>>56771321
You want to know why?
This is something no one ever talks about.
Economies of scale.
Your average town back in the day had one or two diners. They served breakfast and lunch and maybe dinner depending.
EVERYONE ate there. They were fixed parts of the local social scene. Every single fucking person in town went and ate there.
Now, even small towns have 10 restaurants. 10 restaurants serving the same goddamn number of patrons that single old diner used to serve.
So of course shit gets more expensive. The old diner could keep costs down because they were making BANK purely on how goddamn many patrons they were serving, day in, day out, all year.
Instead of going to "the diner" 3 times a week, now you go to the local restaurants maybe once a month, because there's so much variety you never want to have the same shit twice.
Along with inflation, that's the real reason.
>>56771321
dollar devaluation
>>56771321
Keynesian economics.
Is this a joke?
In Australia you'd pay $15 USD for breakfast.
>>56771634
so you are saying competition was bad ?
>>56771321
>Can someone please explain why food is so fucking expensive nowadays?
Energy costs.
>>56771744
Competition was AMAZING for your taste buds.
Just not for your pocket book.
> 2015
> Going to a restaurant.
I went to a Dennys the other day. It was 2 dollars for a fucking soda, and 8 dollars for a breakfast I can make for less than a dollar if I bought bulk ingredients from a grocery store.
The free market. Don't want to eat food ? Then starve
With Jews You Lose
>>56771321
Inflation, devaluation of the currency.
>>56771740
Currently, you can buy breakfast at a diner (like IHOP or Denny's) for 7.99 up to 10.99. Dinners are about the same price, a little more for Steaks and such.
>it costs 10 bucks to get a burrito and a shake at Del Taco
>>56771740
Yeah but in Australia you barely have agriculture.
>>56771321
>Sambo Special
>Bunch of pancakes
>Tiger Butter
This is fucking great. It would never fly today, though.
>>56771321
Get out of the US. I lived in Indonesia for 6 years and never paid more than $2 a plate at a nice restaurant
>>56771321
$18.99 for an 8 piece and a side at Popeye's.
why jesus?
