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Blame it on student loans. These kids have no money, and the money they do have they are prioritizing it on different things. For example, they care more about gym memberships, manicure/pedicures, organic vegetables, and social experiments promising change than they do buying a house that will build wealth, for example. Millennials will be a very educated generation and have nothing to show for it. Doesn't bode well for America. At all.
A very educated generation burdened by huge student loans, wage stagnation, and both high rent and starter home costs.
Eating out a few times a month while running between my more than full time job, side gigs, grad school, and volunteer/networking obligations isn't going to help me save a down payment for that $400,000 starter condo that much faster, and provides enjoyment and a social outlet.
Over 1/3 of millennials live at home , its the Number 1 living arrangement today for Americans in the 18-to-34 age bracket to reside without a spouse in their parents’ home. People used to get married and have families, doesnt really bode well for our future
Why not just have mom cook something I imagine and head to the basement
Blame all they want, maybe the Millennials have just realized it's crap food ?
If it's true that they're cooking and eating real food, that can only be a good thing. As a senior myself, that's how we ate and that's how we eat now. We cook. If we go out, it's not very often and it will be a well chosen locally owned place, not a chain with junk food.
Whatever generation came up with all this eating out at chain places, they could learn from the millennials.
I'm Gen X. It's just too expensive to eat out at many restaurants now. Chains, family restaurants, fast food, you name it, it seems like they raised their prices a great deal overall and they nickel and dime customers on silly little things like condiments. My wife and I have solved this problem by forgoing drinks, using coupons, and going out to lunch rather than dinner.
I am pleased to be able to report that I have never, in my life, eaten at a restaurant that specializes in selling 'chicken wings'.
I recall, back in the 1960s, of "Colonel" Sanders of KFC fame, claiming that the 'wing' was the tastiest part of the chicken. The reason he made that claim was because if you ordered a 'bucket' of 'dark meat', say 15 pieces, you would be lucky if 6 pieces were NOT a wing. He loves to stuff those buckets with wings, being the cheapest part of a chicken.
It was a sham. It still is. Whenever I bake a chicken I toss the wings. Little meat, lots of bone and skin.
As for the topic: I agree with the poster, a fellow boomer, whom noted that when we were young eating out was a 'very occasional' treat, usually for special occasions. Of course, back in the 60s one did not have all of these 'casual' food restaurants like Applebee's, Denny's, and what have you. Seems like such places exploded in popularity in the 1980s.
I guess it makes sense, those places are more for the family experience they should cater more to older patrons like Denny's does.
As an Millennial, I actually like sit down places.
I don't eat at those places because their food isn't great. What a bunch of malarkey that article is.
I'd rather eat at a local restaurant, too. Chains cut as many corners as fast food restaurants do - they're just good at convincing you that they're not.
All that said, entering the work force during the Great Recession taught me to eat most of my meals at home, and to bring lunch to work.
The food is overpriced for what it is (frozen, microwaved) and you can make healthier/cheaper versions of it at home. I'd rather save up and splurge on good food once every so often.
We're not millennials but this is exactly what we do as well.
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It's not millennials. Buffalo Wild Wings used to be good 10 years ago when it was a much smaller chain. The wings seems like they actually put care into the food, and the drinks were great and it was an awesome place to watch NFL games at.
Now, BWW has got too big for its own good, and the food and the prices are suffering as a result. The wings taste like crap these days...I went to a Redskins/Cowboys game last fall and got BBQ Wings, and the wings were burnt, had little meat but a ton of fried batter bread, and were just drenched in BBQ sauce. It was gross. The fries were super soggy and the mixed drinks I got were 80% mix/20% booze. Also, for this meal, it was about $45 bucks when all said and done...for 10 wings, fries and a long island. I can go to a local bar for the same and get much better quality, and cheaper prices.
And Applebees? Really? I haven't eaten there in years. Again, the food is overpriced and the food is no better than cafeteria food you get in high school. It's just heated up pre-cooked food. Nothing is really fresh, yet you still pay a decent price for the meal.
It has nothing to do with millennials, it's just the fact that the product these days from these brands absolutely sucks.
Yeah I remember BWW when it was a decent wing place back in the 90s. Now it's little better than the other restaurants with microwaved food mentioned in this thread. There are much better wing places and many of them offer sports on the TV if you're into that.
Change or die. I remember restaurants my parents brought me to that didn't keep up with the tastes of the boomers and closed the doors decades ago.
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