/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.19397376]

Why don’t restaurants just lower their prices. Why would they rather lose literal hundreds of potential customers because their menu is too high than make a little bit less profit? This is for sit down restaurants. Then they want you to tip etc. Why in America it costs $15-20 for a quick bite to eat plus 15% tip? I’ll take my $3 Hungryman TV dinner, thanks!

[Anonymous No.19397384]

>>19397376
Mind your own business you filthy foreigner faggot.

[Anonymous No.19397410]

>>19397376
>I’ll take my $3 Hungryman TV dinner, thanks!
This is literally why they don't lower their prices. They know you have options, dummy.

[Anonymous No.19397413]

>>19397376
Margins in restaurants are really tight. So, that's probably the reason.

[Anonymous No.19398402]

>>19397376
I think the pandemic taught restaurants that there are a lot of price-insensitive customers out there who will pay $30 for a chipotle burrito, if delivered. This signal emboldened them to raise prices.

[Anonymous No.19398552]

There is a calculable price/demand euqillibrium (which is basic first semester stuff) but most Restaurant owners don't have any economic education, which is one of the reasons why many Restaurant fail.

[Anonymous No.19398562]

>>19397376
>Why don’t restaurants just lower their prices
because all you lazy zoomers and millennials didn't like minimum wage and pitched a bitch to get it raised, now you understand the law of unintended consequences.

raise wages food and restaurant prices go up.
A DUH!

[Anonymous No.19398566]

>>19398402
are millennials and zoomers this dumb?

[Anonymous No.19398602]

>just make the price lower bro, you’ll get more customers! More customers means more money!
stop playing with your phone during economics class

[Anonymous No.19398612]

>>19398566
Maybe more. Imagine.

[Anonymous No.19398620]

>>19398612
My wife was a caretaker for an old lady who could no longer drive but had tons of money. so it makes sense for her, but not for all the youngsters these days crying poor mouth.

[Anonymous No.19398627]

>>19397413
>>19397376
>>19398402
It's all of these in different degrees for each case.
American restaurants are a famously insolvent business model, they run on extremely tight margins with absurdly volatile traffic and sky-high overhead/rent. Most restaurants that aren't massive chains would probably go under if they actually paid their staff minimum wage.
The larger chains with huge war chests and higher margins due to economy of scale have hitched to the fake inflation wagon for the easy short term profit increase - if everyone else is charging too much for something you can either undercut them to gain marketshare or match them to boost profits, and these chains are already at a huge marketshare

[Anonymous No.19398628]

Why are you pretending to be American?

[Anonymous No.19398667]

>>19397376
I cought that, it's Sandord and Son.
With Redd Foxx

[Anonymous No.19398677]

>>19398566
> millennials
> zoomers
You're the faggots making up terms to justify your fucking shitty marketing degrees.

[Anonymous No.19398691]

>>19398677
>marketing degrees
marketing degrees? what are you talking about. I'm retired and former IT. where do you idiots get this shit?

[Anonymous No.19398706]

>>19398627
You're a lame bitch and you know it. Keep repeating the same shit over and over it wont help you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQYs5AOXnOA
Depeche Mode - It's Called A Heart

[Anonymous No.19398709]

>>19398706
being this gay

[Anonymous No.19398711]

>>19398706
lol wat
GPT post?

[Anonymous No.19398717]

>>19398711
Yet your the faggot that expects anyone but yourself to know what gpt is? Explain yourself.

[Anonymous No.19398725]

>>19398711
gbt that comes across as some gay ass bullshit

[Anonymous No.19398732]

>>19398562
>raise wages food and restaurant prices go up.
They go up without raising wages too.

[Anonymous No.19398735]

>>19397376
Restaurants don't need more customers. We 've been full 24/7 since the end of the last lockdown.

[Anonymous No.19398754]

>>19398717
What fucking rock do you live under that you don't know about chatGPT

[Anonymous No.19398756]

>>19398732
Its the feds dude, they know what's best for all!
Is that pathetic or what?

[Anonymous No.19398771]

>>19398754
I'm just not a social media scumbucket, that's left to you.

[Anonymous No.19398787]

>>19398771
I don't understand why you're so mad
I have to assume these are bot posts

[Anonymous No.19398829]

>>19398756
The feds and the fed are two very different things
The feds are federal law enforcement. Your FBI, CIA, NSA, TAF, etc.
The fed, or the federal reserve, is a bank with a government-approved board

[Anonymous No.19398931]

>>19397376
>make a little bit less profit
They would rather die. unlimited growth no matter what

[Anonymous No.19398948]

>>19397376
for whatever reason, you're supposed to eat the goyest of slops, the "immakill u" food. No idea why is this socially accepted over there. In europe we have a sense that that shit is pretty fucking dangerous to eat often, let alone daily.

Over here a "working man's" restaurant is 10€ a pop, 2 dishes, drink, bread and dessert. 7€ if you choose only one dish.

Off course you earn like legit 4 times what we do, so I guess your $15-20 doesn't seem like overpaying to me. More so when literal regular food is like somehow premium to US people.

[Anonymous No.19398965]

>>19398667
No digits, but a nice timestamp.

[Anonymous No.19398971]

>>19398787
bot posts were only a thing here a few months back when some guy on youtube did an experiment on /pol/ using bots.

it lasted a couple of weeks and then stopped but now every idiot on 4chan uses "bots" as an excuse to ignore posts they don't like.

[Anonymous No.19398999]

isn't it kinda weird how most stuff scales where it's usually cheaper to have something industrialized rather than prepared by hand. like a machine that makes tables will always do it cheaper than having to pay someone to make a table

but with food it's always cheaper to just do it yourself. we've had centuries worth of automation happen in every sector but food is still expensive as shit to go out and buy, while ingredients are generally cheap.

[Anonymous No.19399051]

>>19398971
>T. bot

[Anonymous No.19399063]

>>19399051
see what I mean.

[Anonymous No.19399588]

>>19397410
>>19397376
Anon, frozen meals haven't been $3 for decades
Cheapest frozen dinner is trash like Maggi or McCains meals and they set you back $9

[Anonymous No.19399591]

>>19397413
>$20 for some fries with gravy
>Tight margins
Only because the owner is making $5mil/year
Most restaurant meals cost under $1 to make, they're just greedy fucks

[Anonymous No.19399594]

>>19398566
Zoomers are yeah
Millennials are 40yo married with 2 kids nowadays, they don't have time or money to order food

[Anonymous No.19399598]

>>19398971
Bot posts have been a thing for decades anon, even back in the 2007 days when every board got spammed with the schizo "surgeon" posts

[Anonymous No.19399635]

>>19398402
My sister ordered cracker barrel when she stopped by. That would be ok if it wasn't accross the street.

mfw

[Anonymous No.19399653]

>>19397376
>all your raw ingredients have gone up 30% in the past 3 years
>restaurant industry already naturally has high turnover due to shit pay and hectic working conditions
>profit margins already in single digits (if there's any at all), subject to uncontrollable externalities like a month of bad weather and low turnout could put you in the red
>delivery services like doordash jew you up to 20%, effectively have you losing money every transaction
>back up against the wall and decide to raise prices by $2, some dumb poor faggot on an internet screeches about why prices aren't the same as they were when he was a child
why are there so many entitled manbabies that no no experience in the real world or running a business on here?

[Anonymous No.19400164]

>>19399591
If 2 people gave you those fries (a cook and a server) then that's minimum wage for 2 people. 3 if you count the person who washes your plate. 5 if it's a nicer place that probably has a host and a manager on duty. Then insurance. Then utility costs for all equipment involved. Then a business license and probably a liqour license.

Then you come to actual food costs and food prices almost never go down from year to year.

And wtf are you talking about? I cant buy potatoes, oil, salt, and even cheap gravy mix for a dollar. And if I could, why would a restaurant sell it?

[Anonymous No.19400216]

>>19398627
Chains have become so emboldened, or perhaps are under pressure from stockholders after pandemic prices. It is steady price increases and eliminating menu items as far as the eye can see. The Olive Garden in my town is DEAD- higher prices, reduced portions, less menu selection, and it’s the same crap with no increase in quality. Meanwhile a local Italian restaurant is absolutely killing it. The differences? Better food, bigger portions, more menu options, and lower prices. There’s only so tightly a restaurant can squeeze, and if my town is any indication, these chains are about to find that out. The goddamn Taco Bell sets you back as much as our local Mexican restaurants for a lunch special.