/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Millenials

>>11068167
What about them? We don't know what you mean by just saying "millennials".

>>11068173
Millennials avoid most restaurants because of their crippling social anxiety. If it doesn't have a drive-thru they won't eat there. The idea of interacting with waiters and nice, formal, dining triggers them because it's far outside their comfort zone. They'd rather facecram junk food while gaming.

We are all poor as shit. The nicest thing we can afford is a fancy burger

My local steak house died because it burned down.
Though then again, I'm not an American.

>>11068183
>this is what boomers actually believe

>>11068183
I think your confusing millenials with autistic people

>>11068147
Because steak is boring. Now there are chefs out there doing really interesting things like Asian fusion and whatnot, and people would rather have a new experience than a $60 steak. There are also more vegetarians than there used to be. I personally never go to traditional steakhouses unless my company is paying for it or it's my boomer dad's birthday

>>11068200
Same thing.

>>11068183
Or because we broke, nigga

>>11068200
there is no confusion.

>>11068219
I think your unpaid internship should be enough to afford $60 steak

>price more and more people out of a market
>surprised when sales go down with it

>>11068219
>$8 avacado toast
No you're not.

>>11068200
Millenials as a group are disproportionately autistic, yes. Not all are 'tismtards, but an awful lot are.

>>11068192
It's a well-researched fact, anon. That's why many restaurants are now adding digital order screens and tablets at the table since many millenials are more comfortable using a device than they are talking to a stranger.

I think part of the reason is that steakhouses used to be one of the only places you could get a quality cut of meat and have it cooked well. Now its easy to get a good steak at the super market and people are more willing to cook it themselves.

Also people between 20-30 are more interested in all of the new/trendy stuff. What group of 25 year old kids wants to go sit down for a steak and a baked potato? I personally prefer going to steak places now because its away from yelpers doing selfies in front of their bubble teas and pho ramen bowls.

German restaurants are facing a similar fate... its seen as old fashioned.

>>11068232
>avocado toast meme
epic
any other boomer facebook page shit you wish to share with us?

>>11068219

>>11068233
I'm at the beginning of the millennial age group and it almost seems like too long of a generation designation. Being around kids that were 7-8 years younger than us felt strange because they didn't understand a single reference, show, hobby, etc. When smart phones and the internet picked up also had a lot to do with how we consumed media and how we interacted.

>>11068256
Eat a tide pod.

>>11068256
Finish your home work before you play around on the internet!

>>11068276
>>11068277
these are pretty good

BOTTOM TEXT

I can source prime beef locally.
I can get aged beef within 48hrs.
Sous vide is a fun meme.

>MILLENIALS
>ARE
>KILLING
>STEAKHOUSES

Steak dinners are the easiest thing to make at home. Steakhouses are pointless unless you enjoy the fanfare of it.

>>11068276

>>11068147
Millennials are killing steakhouses

>>11068147
Why would I want to go to one.

Pay another man to cook my meal and pay double plus tip for it?

Next you'll tell me people pay other people to mow their lawns.

I think it's because people got bored of eating the same thing their whole lives.

Because there's nothing, literally NOTHING, a steakhouse can offer that you can't do just as well at home for half the price.

>>11068183
>>11068233
>>11068232
*snap*

>>11068147
I would have expected that to just be some dumb clickbait (which you ironically didn't post the link to, despite putting the YT title right in the OP pic), but I think they're pretty much spot on.

One of the things that pisses me off on /ck/ is that anon who comes into any restaurant/industry thread and says they could do it just as good at home for much cheaper, but with steak I actually agree. While the cost of beef is definitely a big factor (all restaurants live or die on a tiny cost margin - other than breakfast places; breakfast places have the best food costs of any type of restaurant, and there are always old people who can't taste anything anymore or cook for themselves), I think the peta shit is a minor factor. It's more that steakhouses haven't really done anything new, pretty much ever, and people who didn't grow up during the depression, or have parents or grandparents that experienced it, don't view a hunk of meat as a luxury item anymore. I cook for a living, and can make a good steak at home, but I'm not saying it's going to be as good as a place that ages their own beef and has a 1400 degree broiler (and yeah, anyone who fell for the kobe scam is just a sucker). And the strip club analogy is pretty good, as you have to pay for every little thing, and it seems overpriced (and is), but you keep being reassured that it's worth it and you're getting something amazing. I could go on but I'm drunk, and now want to think about my next sous vide project.

Not sure where this applies but most steakhouses here in California are always busy. The only places that are dying are tgif, red lobster, out house.

there isnt any one reason
lots have been said in the thread already

one more is diversity
once you start letting foreigners in they bring their food tastes along with them and it ends up thinning out the original restaurants, now that places have to cater to them aswell.
and these new people don't go to expensive steakhouses due to their tastes or religious nonsense

>>11068183
Where do you get these ideas?

>>11070084
4chan. Duh.

>>11068244
Pho ramen bowls? Dude, where can I get one of those for the gram?

Because “good” steakhoses are generally a la carte so those sides are going to be priced seperately. Whereas chain places you pay for and get a $20 rib eye or t-bone, and about as tasty as shoe leather with app the A-1 you can drink. It’s not exactly worth it for something you can do yourself. If you pop into most chain AMA’s they’ll say most of there food comes in frozen bags from some warehouse in butt fuck tenessee.

>>11068167
>>11068183
Ah, nothing like a quality Gen-Xer post. The worst parents in fucking history, feeding their children McDonald's and Burger King because they're too self absorbed in their careers or love lives to give a shit, only to then blame their millennial children for being fat fucks and having health issues. The biggest absentee parents in the history of mankind. The very generation that's running the show politically in every state, yet complains about millennials shitting up the world.

Your generation are the biggest fucking niggers. Boomers and millennials, while having their own issues, look at you and laugh.

Steakhouses don't actually know how to cook steak. It's always either overcooked, underspiced, or most likely both. It's cheaper and tastier to just make it yourself, steak is not exactly a difficult meal to make.

>>11070215
>steak
>spiced
wew.

>>11068147
>paying $60 at a steakhouse
>not just doing it yourself for $15
Not a hard choice these days.

>>11068147
redpilled generation finally realizing fatty braised meats are superior to steak

>do I want a ribeye with steakfries, green beans and a Utica Club pilsner for $12
>Or for $30 and I have to put pants on
Yeah real mystery there

>>11068147

>ribeye steak at uk steak house with sides/drinks
>£25-40
>Ribeye steak from butchers/supermarket
>£5-6

i dont go out so i'd rather cook at home

>>11068276
Thats gen Z not millenials ���� ����������

>>11071729
>that one zoomer who just discovered Heather and thinks he's hot shit for posting her in every fucking thread.

Shouldn't you be lurking?

>>11071769
>That one boomer that polices memes like he polices the kids across the street
Shouldnt you stomp out that burning bag on your stoop?

>>11068147
>people look at steaks as if they were strip clubs

nigga wat.

>>11068147
>we are subconsciously trained to save money on food

The direction that the economy has gone over the last 10 years has FORCED people to spend less money on food (and everything else). No one can fucking afford steak houses anymore.

>>11068183
Do you know any millennials outside of /r9k/?

>>11068147

My job gives out gift certificates from our local steakhouses (top tier, LG's, Flemings, Mortons, etc.) At one time I had 10 or 12 $100 cards and I swore I would use them eventually. But, my Asian qt gf always sucks my dick after I cook her a steak myself. When I moved, I threw them all away...

>>11068192
As someone who does a lot of hiring. It is because it is true. 80% of millennials I interview or hire (and then fire) are fucking worthless with people.

>>11073197
>When I moved, I threw them all away...
my company does the same and i sell them on ebay for $80 and then suck my own dick

>>11073385
Its because from the time they were entering adulthood they had social media and a phone shoved up their ass. Why do anything in person when its all online?

>>11073197
>thinks his gf being "asian" is something to brag about
>she won't perform a basic sex act unless he bribes her
>throws money in the trash instead of doing what >>11073421 does
yikes

>>11073465
>>she won't perform a basic sex act unless he bribes her
That was not stated. All he stated was that always got a blowjob after cooking the steak. Not that steaks were the only source of blowjobs. You really ought to work on your reading comp.

>>11068147
>So I just saw this video on Youtube and it said steakhouses are dying because of things like rising cost of beef due to droughts,

Because most of the fucking steakhouses are shit, far too expensive, limited menu, and shitty hours/policies. Why would I go to a sole steak house for steak when I could go to some smaller chain place, have more relaxed environment, options and meal deals.

>go to logans roadhouse
>can actually relax much some peanuts and bread rolls
>tv's if I wanted to watch a game or something
>good sized steak 18.99 + 2 sides
>get 3-4 drinks of some speciality drinks
>big meal and drink for 30 bucks tops including tip
vs
>go to set steak house
>sit down in stiff environment
>get smaller steak sides basically always way more limited
>steak is probably 20-25 dollars just for steak
>if want to order any drink your options are extremely limited in comparison
>probably spending closer to 40 just in the food alone

gee, I wonder why.

>>11068273
I can't imagine hippie boomers like being grouped with disco boomers, but there you go.

>>11068167
>>11068147
steak house are going out cause steak is easy to make and there is no reason why you pay premium price for meh quality when you can pay for a good cut at costco. Then shits like mortons trying to charge for the fucking side dishes that come with a steak.

>>11073472
>a /pol/tard
>recommend working on reading comprehension
C'mon now, you expect a bit much, no?

eating at steakhouses has become a status symbol and you really shouldn't do it unless you're wining and dining a girl or trying to make a boomer happy. It's where you take someone to say "I'm spending a couple hundred on us tonight so respect me." plus the steaks always soft as fuck. it's like eating a thick slice of fresh bread soaked in warm blood. admittedly it's usually a nice ambience and the cocktail menus are usually decent but it's just not worth it

>>11073472
If blowjobs were a normal occurrence for him then why would he value them so highly? Since you want to learn about reading comprehension, let me break it down for you:

>has $1200 of gift cards to steakhouses
>swears he's going to use them
>but if he cooks a steak at home, his gf gives him a blowjob
>therefore he opts to throw his gift cards away in favor of cooking at home

Tell me, would he behave like this if he could get his gf to give him head any time he wanted? That he's willing to spend extra money, time and effort in order to do something that will get him his blowjob heavily implies that blowjobs are rare and valuable for him. Get it?

>>11073519
this you go there to mingle with your work contacts.


Mexican steak house are pretty good though

bean and wheat tortillas instead of bread, fried intestines .
They still give you the baked potato.

The true status symbol of the steak house hierarchy is having your own private wine locker.

>>11073548
>1.2k in steakhouse cards
>gf gives him blowjobs not to use them

maybe she is fucking some people who regularly go there, no bitch would turn down using 1.2k in cash if nothing else to get drinks/night out

>>11073548
>If blowjobs were a normal occurrence for him then why would he value them so highly?
There was no statement made about the value of blowjobs. All he said was that he got one when he cooked a steak. Nothing more. Your reading comp is failing yet again.

>>11071690
This, there are meals that are kinda impractical to make at home if you don't have the ingredients already laying around, or if you don't have things prepped. A steak is salt pepper, drop it in the pan, wam bam thank you mam steak.

>>11073197
So she'll suck your dick if you cook steak at home but won't suck your dick if you take her out for a $100 steak dinner?

>>11073465

Quid pro Quo bro. It's pretty much how life works.

>>11073465

They were expired. They're only good for a year, and desu, I forgot about them.

>>11073614

What can I say? She likes my cooking.

>>11073604
also this.
it's really a perfect storm of why the FUCK would you choose a steakhouse of all places. Steak is universally loved in North America. it's not like settling on a chain because no one can make up your mind. you're making a conscious decision, among a group of people, to shell out minimum 100$ each between drinks, meal, and tip. You can pick up a tray at home and a decent 40 of whiskey for less. Last time I went there was a table full of 8-10 zoomers planning on getting in a "quick filet" then drinking on the way to a concert. why fucking bother? it's not a dick measuring contest among regular acquaintances and you clearly don't want to be there

>>11068183
The real reason is steakhouses sell boring, uninspired food that people can easily (and often do) make at home—i.e., food they have already eaten a thousand times before. Why pay $60 for a repeat of the dull-ass steak and potatoes you made last night when you could get literally anything else?

Go to any sushi restaurant and you’ll see millenials galore

>>11068183
Stop projecting fagboy
t. millenial

>>11068147
Steakhouses are a ripoff. I can cook a better steak at home for half the price.

>>11068147
I don't really eat at restaurants period. I much rather cook for myself, and most places people take me suck at cooking... at least compared to what I do. I don't get what's so hard about making flavorful well seasoned dishes, but places are just awful about it around here it feels like.

Also, I would have to frequently eat alone.

>>11068147
steakhouses will remain in business as long as fat fuck boomers are alive.i give em another 10 years tops

>>11069924
>for half the price.

In a lot of cases it's a quarter of maybe even a fifth.

>squandering fren time by not going to steak houses
I miss having frens, we used to go to Saltgrass and Texas Roadhouse together.
>tfw nobody to talk about how rare they like their steak, how hot the waitress is, nobody to drink beers with while talking about why steak sauce doesnt belong in steakhouses

>buy tons of meat in bulk relatively cheaply
>sell it at 300% markup
>'justify' it by throwing in a side of potatos (that costs them literally pennies), a salad, and some free bread, served by some cunt who hit the wall hard pretending to care about you, and then shit talking you when she gets back in the kitchen
>That'll be $22.94 for you 6oz sirloin and mashed potatos, sir. Plus tip. 25% is standard, I have kids... please.

or

>buy fat fucking ribeye steak at supermarket for half that price
>get to grill it with care and experience the satisfaction and anticipation of your incoming delicious meal
>get to watch your favorite tv show or movie in your underwear and get drunk, and then just relax on the couch with a full stomach without having to wait for the check and worry about the drive home
I just dont see the appeal. Boomers gonna boom I guess.

>>11068147
I just watched this too, op.

>>11073480
Anon, saving money will literally doom our economy

>>11074911
Don't worry, I'm rich so I'm allowed to save.

>>11073939
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>>11073465
qt asian gfs are definitely something to brag about what fucking reality are you living in?

>>11071741
Did you seriously try to use fucking emojis ?

>>11075213
it was probably some triggered non-asian roastie

>>11068147
>the fact they don't use USDA choice meat,
The problem is that they do use choice and not prime (prime is the highest grade and choice is the second)
Choice is readily available at grocers and cheaper than prime. Steakhouses using choice means that there is no benefit to eating there, but they still charge prime prices.

>>11068184
>millenial cancer throwing temper-tantrums all over the nation in support of "diversity" like the spoiled brats they are
>label Americans wanting to kick out MILLIONS of illegal aliens as "racist" and "heartless"
>wonder why they can't find any decent unskilled labor jobs and why they can't afford decent food and entry level housing

(((They))) did their job well.....again.

>>11068208
I have no idea how you think sizzler is a steak house but outside of fusion, a steakhouse can be amazing.

>>11068147
I do not see the appeal of most steakhouses if they aren't using wagyu, aged, or USDA Prime meat. I can make better sides at home and traditional American cuisine is boring at high prices. At least with good Mexican and Asian restaurants they use an ingredient stable you don't typically stock at home or jet engine wok burners. The latter commercial kitchen advantage is also why pizzeria parlors still make sense.

>>11068147
Don’t forget that steak is a boomer food and they’re all dying.

Do steakhouses even get their meat from a superior, exclusive source not available to retail?

>>11070215
>I went to a sizzler once and unless it's a mound of salt it's not seasoned: the post

>>11076277
>steak is
Protein, you pretentious faggot.

>>11076213
>millennials too poor to eat at steakhouses
>put them to work at slaughterhouses or migrant work below minimum wage picking fruit and veg 12 hours/day w/o benefits
>see, now you're rich and can eat at steakhouses and buy your own house

>>11076368
>thinks migrants take the jobs that pay below minimum wage
This is why you're a poor fag.

>>11073939
This guy gets it.

>>11076412
Great, what do you make picking lettuce? Blueberries? Peaches? Tomatoes? Even if it were minimum wage which it's not, you wouldn't last 2 hours before you collapsed into a blubbering pile of jelly.

>>11068183

>Millennials avoid most restaurants because of their crippling social anxiety.

No actually I don't enjoy talking to people that are coerced into being friendly with me by monetary incentives. Only boomers were self-deluded enough to think the waiter really thought that their jokes were funny.

I have a tendency to get sick of food I've eaten more than four or five times. After that, I don't crave it anymore and want to eat something else. But any red meat that is juicy enough that it is literally dripping with fat is something I can eat pretty much forever. I think fat is the one thing people always crave no matter much or how often they eat it. As such, I'd be surprised if steakhouses went out of business entirely, because your average burger is dry as fuck. Someone will always want a good quality steak with a lot of marbling. And as people in this thread keep saying, people are too lazy to go out and eat. Well, if people are so lazy, perhaps some of them are too lazy to cook for themselves and would rather spend money for the convenience. We will see how it plays out.

>>11076484
>what do you make picking lettuce?
Most produce jobs pay by the pound, and the average person can easily make double min wage if they put in the effort.
>you wouldn't last 2 hours
Not everyone on this board is a fat underaged attention whore, like you, chief.

The reason is that they're a relic of the past and conjure an image of goofy ass white people sitting around with their goofy ass white dad acting like a fake ass nuclear family.
"steak" is an implicitly white thing and nobody wants to associate with cowboys or ranchers if theyre not white. Considering white people are declining as a population and America is becoming more gloriously diverse, white food like steak and potatoes are being phased out, much like white people are.
The second and even better reason is people aren't as interested in eating meat as they were before when fat white people were the majority. People see that meat is cruel and unhealthy and so things like sushi and vegetarian heavy diets are more en vogue. Also some of the things people said in this thread particularly how easy it is to make a 'steak house' quality steak at home thanks to youtube.
In short, steak houses are for old relic white people and nobody wants to go sit in a restaurant decorated like a log cabin to have a steak when they don't have any cultural connection to it.

>>11076542
I would add, the worst advertisement for steak is the fat white pasty people that eat it. Why would you eat that much food? Nobody wants to look like that and people are very self conscious now because of social media. So the thought of eating a huge steak and a bunch of potatoes and butter seems counterintuitive for that selfie you wanna post later. People prefer to eat light healthy food like lettuce and tomatoes, not eat the food that made white people decadent and slovenly enough to become such weak and impotent cucks that they basically gave their country away without a fight. lmao.
steak=cuck food

>>11076558
For the faggots that will reply by saying i'm looking too deep into it, shove it up your ass.

food =culture and culture is politics. Same reason people in Los Angeles (white people) oppose taco trucks, because its a signal that the times are changing and their burger joint is no longer the hip place to be.

imagine being that fucking stupid

>>11076568
what about steak tacos are those okay

>>11076568
>>11076558
>>11076542
You're making things up to justify your racist tendencies and that makes you an inherently bad person.

>>11076542
>nobody wants to associate with cowboys or ranchers if theyre not white
have you ever seen a latino in your entire life

>>11076568
You have points, but mostly you present that you have an ethnic and diet lifestyle axe to grind. The affluence and demographic declines are right, the big beef trope is anglo and people stopped assimilating into wasp culture around that time.

>>11076686
He's never left his mom's basement. He's just a contrarian /pol/fag, no different from the other fags who constantly feel the need to evangelize other boards with their garbage.

>>11076568
Fuck off you subhuman

>>11068183
id much rather cook my own meals than eat out any day. i remember only discovering how many people dont eat home cooking only a few years ago. i had a great upbringing when it comes to food

>>11070171
dang you sound pretty upset

>>11068147
hell i bought 3 tbones that were 2.5 pounds each on sale for 40 dollars from 90

why would i go to steak house when i can fucking cook

>>11068183
I love going out to eat. I love the entire expierence and spend money on it when I really cant afford it.
That being said, I hate steak houses. Steak houses sometimes serve low quality steak. I enjoy grilling a steak and I enjoy drinking as much beer or wine for cheap with my steak. Steak houses are fucking loud and sometimes smokey and 9/10 their sides are shit.

Steak houses suck. The sushi industry isn't dying out in america, because sushi places tend to be either okay quality or americans just dont know enough about sushi to say otherwise. And a night of sushi is far more expensive than a night at a steak house.

>>11076542
>>11076558

>>11068183
>willingly overpays to ingest chemical injected slop made by a corporation and get food poisoning
boomers are seriously pathetic
boomers are truly

>>11069917
I feel like I'm the only person in the world who unironically likes Monster Zero Ultra.

>>11071729
>Utica Club and steak
my nigger where you at?

>>11068200
My for-real autistic co-worker is less autistic than some of the posters I see on 4chan.

>>11073659
Ironically as a half white mutt, something like steak and potatoes were rare. Especially because we didn't have the most money, so steak was super rare. So getting something like that hits both nostalgia and "rare food" treat.
But yes if I want to treat myself I go to my local sushi place. It's not the best I've had, but I can get a roll, appetizer, and drink for about ten bucks. Maybe I'd spend 20-25 if I really wanted to make it special and get the more expensive rolls or apps. Or spend about that much to get the base amount at the higher end place. I can even get really good Indian for 15-20. Etcetc
As opposed to the 25 base starting cost of just stepping inside a steakhouse or anywhere that appeals to "white boomer food" taste. And if I want something flavorful or not the cheapest option it's more like 30-40. As much as I'd love to just be able to occasionally go to steak houses and other things millenials are killing, they're just too expensive.
Which reminds me, it's not only white food that needs to relax with pricing. There's a taqueria here and I don't know if they hand make their tortillas but it being so expensive at iirc ~3 per taco with low cost meat like offal and across from a taco bell, I haven't gone more than once.

>>11076671
Not all, I explained every aspect of OP's question w/ a sprinkle of bait on top but the point remains

>>11076671
not racist at all and if I was it still wouldn't change the facts

>>>>11076701
lmao, op asked a question and I answered it. you're offended for some reason maybe because its too close to home


>>11076743
Go eat some sugar fatty