Portions for one person for lunch

[Anonymous No.18760736]

Do all these diner type places really thrive on overfeeding you? All I wanted was an omelette. That's plenty I would think but it comes automatically with all sorts of heavy carb side options. If you get a big loaded omelette would you want 3 pancakes on TOP of that? wtf? .

[Anonymous No.18760738]

>>18760736
You can just order a plain omelette if you want. Nobody will stop you.

[Anonymous No.18760755]

>>18760736
Boomer mentality of "getting my money's worth". Plus it's not low-cost high-volume like McDonald's. There's no dollar menu. So they're going to try to upsell you because there's less customers rather than get you in and out with the cheapest thing as fast as possible.

[Anonymous No.18760756]

>>18760736
Diner food is cheap to make. All the ingredients come in bulk, have a long shelf life due to being mostly frozen and are basically the generic shit that you can make at home. It's cheap, greasy food just to fill you up when you're too lazy to make a meal yourself, feel like hanging out with some friends, or drunk at 4am when nothing else is open besides Wawa and you feel like sitting down for a meal.

>tfw your home diner is the most famous diner in the world

[Anonymous No.18760806]

>>18760736 I always order much more than I intend to eat so I can have 1 or 2 more servings to justify eating out. I got all this at the diner and ate half of everything but the hash. Then ate the other half of the pancakes for dinner that night, and cooked up the other half of everything in some duck fat on the stove with extra eggs for lunch today

[Anonymous No.18760810]

>>18760806
Whoops forgot pic

[Anonymous No.18760813]

>>18760755
>>18760756
This, when you're paying $10-15, the question of whether to use $2 worth of cheap raw ingredients like bread, batter, and potatoes in your meal or $3 worth becomes barely material.
You are mostly paying for a service at a location at that point. You almost might as well complain that a drive-through car wash uses more water than it needs to.
Either use the takeout boxes, remember that mom doesn't make you finish your plate anymore, or move to Europe.

[Anonymous No.18760939]

>>18760736
These breakfast meals are made for working class people, not neets like yourself. The average working man requires 6000 calories a day and a breakfast of 2000 is the standard.

[Anonymous No.18760988]

>>18760810
>Whoops forgot dick

[Anonymous No.18761174]

>>18760988

[Anonymous No.18761334]

>>18761174

[Anonymous No.18761352]

>>18760736
You can always get the leftovers bagged so you eat it later or share with a girlfriend

[Anonymous No.18761793]

>>18761352
Anon, no one on here has a gf. Except that one guy who cups his aged gfs milker in front of dinner

[Anonymous No.18761812]

>>18760736
Potatoes, bread, and pancakes are all easy ways to add more food to a plate.

>>18760813
>This, when you're paying $10-15, the question of whether to use $2 worth of cheap raw ingredients like bread, batter, and potatoes in your meal or $3 worth becomes barely material.
The difference between cost of ingredients and cost of a meal at restaurants is always big. There are a bunch of expenses (rent, electricity, wages, fixed assets, etc.) to running a restaurant besides ingredients. If you don't like it, make your own food!