/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>18953116
Depends. If it's how you get out of the house then $30 for an outing once a week isn't that bad.

Just go to the bathroom when the bill comes and it's always worth it

That's one might fat and ugly thumb.

Cost wise usually not, because you pay for the seating and the cleaning and the service, but you also pay for the experience. Definitely if you have a group of people. Definitely if it's something complicated or messy to make. And definitely if you are already out, want to grab a bite, want a reason to go out.

>go to hot pot or korean bbq
>cook your own food
>pay out the nose for it
fuck this bullshit. never going to any of these meme restaurants again.

>>18953116
I only do it socially.

>>18953116
Only if you know a good, inexpensive restaurant.
For $13 I've been able to buy a big burrito with rice and beans and a drink. That could be lunch and dinner.

>>18953116
The biggest sin on there is a 3 dollar rice filler beer.

>>18953116
i've worked for 4 years in restaurants
no, get to go and eat at home

>noone noticed it was from 10 years ago

>>18953116
would be were it not for tipping.

There's a Japanese restaurant I like to go to but for some reason half the stuff speaks Spanish and is hispanic.IN a JAPANESE restaurant. of all the places to speak Spanish, in a Japanese restaurant. stop that shit.

t. mexican American

>>18953943
buddy i got bad news for you.
most of the "japanese" restaurants have little to do with japan and are often staffed by asians that are SEAmonkeys.
also hibachi? i lived in japan for three years and didnt once find a place like it. okonomiyaki was about the closest but you cook your own food on the grill.

>>18953784
It's obvious that it's from 10 years ago because that would be twice the price today

>>18953116
No, and that’s why I don’t and make nearly all my meals at home.

>>18953943
Most restauraunts employ mexicans. Out of all the ones I worked in, only the chinese-owned shellfish one employed other chineseses.
I'm at outback steakhouse and 95% of our back of house is spanish. One of the two "grill masters" is spanish and he's PM shift, the white guy only works mornings.

>>18953977
That's not why, it's because you're lonely and ugly just admit it.

>>18954141
He's probably good looking since he cooks his own meals from scratch instead of eating restaurant food.

>>18953116
I mean that's not terrible for I'm guessing a guy and his kid. It's also good bonding time and helps the kid learn social skills by ordering his food and such.

>>18953116
Prior to COVID I did an experiment where I ate out 50:50. Basically eating out for lunch and eating in for dinner. Did this for a whole year to help average things out and used my credit card report to help sum up groceries vs. restaurants. Turns out, cost wise, for 1 person, the cost was even. This is with me eating however I wanted. I still kinda do this, but my grocery bill has definitely outpaced my restaurant bill due to my habit of smoking meats I picked up.

With COVID, I couldn't keep it up due to the restrictions, and transitioned to more in-home eating. Still grab takeaway and stuff, but my eating out bill has dropped tremendously. I lost a lot of cheap buffet restaurants I used to frequent, and I was working from home more often, leading to more in home eating. The current state of affairs is not great for the restaurant industry.

I will say that the high return items that are worth going to restaurants are: salads, soups, bbq, and sushi. Anything that takes over 1 hour to prep and cook is 100% worth paying some wagie to do for you. BBQ is especially one of those things, 12+ hours on top of special equipment and wood supplies, and it HAS to be done in bulk, so you always end up with 5-10 lbs of meat to get through. Soups that take 24-48 hours to make, like pho and ramen, are worth getting out. Sushi is also one of those pain in the ass things to source as a home cook, and I have tried to make it myself (it was just as fucking expensive).

Fried food is a middle ground. You can do it better at home, but it's a right pain to do.

Things you should rarely/never pay for at restaurants due to high markup or low quality: alcohol, sandwiches, burgers, soda, steak, and any other basic bitch food you can make better at home.

I regularly spend over $100 on extravagant meals in Japanese and Korean restaurants and it is always with it

>>18954379
biggest scams at my restaurant are pasta which we only recently offered, and soup. We have gallons of both but upcharge.

>>18953971
>>18954124
The local sushi, pho, and Chinese restaurants near me actually have Asian staff.
I just don't know if they're Japanese, Vietnamese, or Chinese.

>>18954379
>Soups that take 24-48 hours to make, like pho and ramen
instant ramen takes me 3 minutes :^)

>>18954513
i learned to ask "what's your nationality?" to not be rude. then when they're a foreign fuck and don't understand ask "asia?" and they usually reciprocate.
i have good communication with my team. they cook their own off the menu food and give me some.

>>18953116
No.

>>18954379
disagree about costs entirely. you will never get a restaurant cost to be anywhere near on par with making it at home
but your point of time to make and saving time which is the wage slave mentality you will never get anywhere near the quality of food that you can make at home

don't know what sort of grocery bills you got kid but nothing is on par with eating at a restaurant every day lol. that would be hundreds to a thousand a month

>>18953116
i don't do it for free because i don't enjoy oil in my mouth

>>18953116
Im not a burger, but what's domestic that cost 3 dollar

>>18953971

NTA but i live in Japan currently. i've seen a few hibachi places but only in Tokyo, and the one I went to was very tourist-trappy. then again i don't really split hairs between hibachi and teppanyaki so if we want to get into semantics then yeah i haven't been to a hibachi either. i've never been to an okonomiyaki place that lets you cook your own, but i do know they exist.

>>18955367
probably a domestic beer like budweiser or some other slop

>>18953116
Imagine trusting some disgruntled wagie to make your food.

>>18953116
Only with my ex was it worth it. It was really nice but not because of the food. I only go out now if I’m invited and it’s not the same.

Grocery bill has gotten obscene. Just me and my Wife. (plus 2 cats). Going out to eat costs have gotten obscene to. We rarely eat out anymore. Plus there's a cat food shortage. Cats will only eat one brand of food. Naturally it's one of those effected by the shortage more than the others. (We've tried the generic store brand; no go, cats will not eat it). Sigh I wish things were back during covid. When things were cheap. Could get two sausage biscuits and a small coffee from MCD's for 3.18.

>>18956322
Same bro. Being single and having no IRL friends means I never really go out to eat. Occasionally I'll order take out, and I've been on 2 dates in the last 2 years. They went terribly though so I just save tons of money.

>>18953116
Just don’t tip

>>18953116
In Toronto this bill is $50

i used to eat a large kebab or a large cheese tacos a day for 5 years and my belly was enormous, like those dudes with a beer belly you see in bars

i used to be an anorexic

but then the prices skyrocketed and I can no longer afford eating out on top of this I realised what I was doing was not healthy so I stopped

>>18953116
>02-18-2013

Eating out is something which should be a social activity. 80-95% of your meals should be prepared for yourself for economic/body composition reasons as well as the joy of cooking.