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Okay - now I know what my son is meaning when he writes "that is REDICULOUS" - cause he typically spells it correctly - but I didn't get it. Text messaging has changed so much . . . I gotta get more educated, Barking. Eduktd.
BTW - I have read several reports that state the price of hops has increased, wh/ will be reflected in price increases for beer. So . . . not only are entrees going up . . . if you like a beer with your meal, you will be paying more for that, too . . .
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If you were more educated Ani you'd be running this country.
If I did run this country, you can bet we would be growing more food here and importing less . . . so produce didn't have to be shipped so far . . . thus saving on fuel plus keeping cost of veggies/soybeans/flour down . . . and we would be using rail, and not trucks . . . etc. etc. Norfolk Southern would be running high capacity on multiple rails 24/7 . . . bringing your food to you at the cheapest transport prices possible.
Terrific article! I have worked w/ hospitals that contract w/ Sysco and yes, I have seen/eaten the frozen entrees. My belief is that a lot of restaurants are passing off as "made on site" entrees that are merely microwaved or baked in the back. Lasagna is especially likely to be frozen.
Every time we go out to eat, my husband is amazed at how CHEAP it is to eat out here. We lived in Northern Virginia for two years before coming back, and every time we went out to eat there, for two people, the price would have been at least 1/3 to 1/2 MORE than it is here. (Even at the chain restaurants, or the "cheap" places.) We see it as a bargain!
I have to agree, also having come down from the mid-Atlantic. We find that going out to eat does tend to cost us less here than it did back in our previous hometown - the same for drink prices at local bars too. The first couple of restaurants we ate out at here were Cantina Fifteen Eleven and Firebirds and we thought thought the prices were rather inexpensive. Although I understand that its all relative; I cannot compare what prices may have been here a year ago.
I have to agree, also having come down from the mid-Atlantic. We find that going out to eat does tend to cost us less here than it did back in our previous hometown - the same for drink prices at local bars too. The first couple of restaurants we ate out at here were Cantina Fifteen Eleven and Firebirds and we thought thought the prices were rather inexpensive. Although I understand that its all relative; I cannot compare what prices may have been here a year ago.
Moved back here in late 2002 and have thought the prices were high then. And I think the drink prices are high, too. And beer, unless on special. But I had been in the midwest where both drink prices and upscale dining was cheaper. However, when I travel to DC, CHI, ATL, etc. I still think prices here are high. No one else seems to agree with me, tho. I have been complaining since I moved back here . . . When I can get a cheaper martini in Dallas at a three or four star restaurant . . . just peeves me no end when I get back to CLT.
That really is an eye-opening article! I would not have guessed the extent to which Sysco provides the food for so many restaurants. With the cost of living here in California, my wife and I hardly ever eat out except for lunch once in a great while, and then when we have a coupon. Even Denny's entrees have crept up near 10 bucks.
We just look at the grocery store ads once every two weeks (each payday), and will go to as many as four different grocery stores to get the best deals from each of them. A couple of Kingsford bags of charcoal, and I have my barbecue pit going an average of five evenings a week. You save a fortune cooking chicken or pork chop "valu-packs" or top sirloin steaks yourself versus eating out at a restaurant for dinner. If I can find salmon for sale, I buy a couple of packages, get the barbecue pit going, spray some aluminum foil with non-stick cooking spray, put the salmon on it, and save quite a bit compared to going to Red Lobster or some other seafood place.
If I did run this country, you can bet we would be growing more food here and importing less . . . so produce didn't have to be shipped so far . . . thus saving on fuel plus keeping cost of veggies/soybeans/flour down . . . and we would be using rail, and not trucks . . . etc. etc. Norfolk Southern would be running high capacity on multiple rails 24/7 . . . bringing your food to you at the cheapest transport prices possible.
Hear, hear, Ani for president!
In many ways what you describe is a throwback to an earlier era, one that if we were wise we would once again embrace...
Terrific article! I have worked w/ hospitals that contract w/ Sysco and yes, I have seen/eaten the frozen entrees. My belief is that a lot of restaurants are passing off as "made on site" entrees that are merely microwaved or baked in the back. Lasagna is especially likely to be frozen.
I havent had issue with pre made food sent to restaurants in the Charlotte area. It really bad in the triad area and watch out for those small towns they are litter with restaurants who serve pre made dishes from the same companies that make public school lunches.
A big clue for me is a restaurant that serves to different type of region of foods Like Chinese and American
It is us the consumer that will let a restaurant know if their prices are to high. We will visit less frequent or not at all and slowly but surely that restaurant will hopefully disappear or get the greed out of their eyes
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