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All around, I see my favorite chain restaurants and once popular sole proprietorship restaurants closing its doors. It's due to the Millennials and their preference for fast, casual dining and home cooking. Now, I know these people work hard and long hours, so how is it that they cannot afford to treat themselves to a longer, better, more formal or buffet dining experience? These types of restaurants are more expensive than fast or fast-casual foods and one usually leaves a tip, but these places aren't exactly budget busters. If the US had more than 3% annual GDP growth during the Obama years, then we may not be in this mess now. These restaurants didn't see it coming. This is a trend in the USA, not so much the wealthier other nations.
It seems that it is important to vote for the right POTUS and politicians. Obama may have ruined it for one generation as they could not get decent jobs. Once the Millennials graduated, they ended up with high college loans and high taxes in order to support the poor immigrants. The lesson? Never vote for a socialist POTUS or politician again. Let the Canadians eat the fast-casual and fast foods. Now, I'm not against immigration. To the contrary, I am for it. Immigration is one of the keys to real GDP growth, but we can't just let anybody in like criminals and terrorists. Moderation is key and that means border control and immigration management. These restaurants need workers and people who will pick their foods and people who are willing to make better of themselves -- the working poor. These are the ideas that the USA was founded upon. Capitalism works.
I was telling my g/f about this thread, and she pointed out that we see more millenials in the local restaurants. The single location places that actually make good food. Perhaps the millenials prefer to cook at home or eat better food.
Millennials eat out a lot, way more than our generation did at their age. But they are not going to the place their parent's went to, they will find the hole in the wall that has amazing food.
Not to mention, cheap commercial crap, prepared and served by people who don't really care what they doing, has never been a favorite on my menu. Anyone can cook a steak, but cooking a great piece of meat correctly, using the freshest ingredients in your sides, paying attention to everything you put on a plate, every single time you do it, makes a difference. I'll pay more money for a better meal and service, a chain restaurant couldn't match no matter how hard they tried. Hiring the right people, to do jobs they want to do, produces more than just employees, that are a means to an end.
The chain places are about dollars. The local places are about the food. Yeah, the chain places makes food and the local places have to make money to stay open. But the focus is different.
No. It has something to do with George Soros and gay illegal Mexican Muslims. I just know these things.Restaurant biz is super competitive . Those chain shops that closed where mostly overpriced with sub par food .
Whatever happened to Howard Johnson's?
All around, I see my favorite chain restaurants and once popular sole proprietorship restaurants closing its doors. It's due to the Millennials and their preference for fast, casual dining and home cooking. Now, I know these people work hard and long hours, so how is it that they cannot afford to treat themselves to a longer, better, more formal or buffet dining experience? These types of restaurants are more expensive than fast or fast-casual foods and one usually leaves a tip, but these places aren't exactly budget busters. If the US had more than 3% annual GDP growth during the Obama years, then we may not be in this mess now. These restaurants didn't see it coming. This is a trend in the USA, not so much the wealthier other nations.
It seems that it is important to vote for the right POTUS and politicians. Obama may have ruined it for one generation as they could not get decent jobs. Once the Millennials graduated, they ended up with high college loans and high taxes in order to support the poor immigrants. The lesson? Never vote for a socialist POTUS or politician again. Let the Canadians eat the fast-casual and fast foods. Now, I'm not against immigration. To the contrary, I am for it. Immigration is one of the keys to real GDP growth, but we can't just let anybody in like criminals and terrorists. Moderation is key and that means border control and immigration management. These restaurants need workers and people who will pick their foods and people who are willing to make better of themselves -- the working poor. These are the ideas that the USA was founded upon. Capitalism works.
You are barking up the wrong tree
Wages have been stagnant for decades. Young people are working for low wages and carry high debt
If they choose to compensate by eating at home, I applaud them
What fucking horseshit, Bode.
My 14 y.o. son has a job at a restaurant that is 2 blocks from my house. He's getting 10.75/hour, + tips, and she'd work him 40 hours a week if she could. In other words, he gets as many hours as he wants. I could go get a job there tomorrow.
10.75x20x4.3 = $924.50 gross monthly earned income per montyh for a 14 y.o. kid. Plus tips of about $300 per month.
He can pay me $200 per month, save 300 per month and still have more money than he knows what to do with.
Whatever happened to Howard Johnson's?
Did you ever eat at one?
There’s your answer.
The main thing I is that you can find much better food at a local place than a chain restaurant. I live in Atlanta. Why would I willingly go to O'Charleys, Applebees or other place, when I can go to The Colonade, Mary Mack's, The Beautiful or other locally owned place that serves FAR better food at the same or lower prices. And if I want to spend more, I have never eaten better fare than you will find at The Iberian Pig.
What I find is the liquor bill almost matches the price of the meal. If you forgo the two or three drinks and order from the daily specials you can get a reasonably priced dinnerYou know, economics has a great deal to do with it for me, because I live on my military pension.
But, I can come up with 10 bucks a week to treat myself. And, all the places I go, you can get a really good meal for 10 bucks or less.
I still miss Sizzler's. Sigh.
Clueless as usual Allie Baba
Young people starting out do not have much disposable income. They carry a large amount of student debt and work for starting salaries that have not increased with the cost of living
Going to a sit down restaurant is not in their budget, they prefer fast casual that better fits their lifestyle
You have to have the taste of a child to enjoy SizzlerI still miss Sizzler's. Sigh.
Going to Sizzler's was a big deal when I was a kid. And the Ponderosa Steak House.
I still miss Sizzler's. Sigh.
You have to have the taste of a child to enjoy SizzlerI still miss Sizzler's. Sigh.
Going to Sizzler's was a big deal when I was a kid. And the Ponderosa Steak House.
The main thing I is that you can find much better food at a local place than a chain restaurant. I live in Atlanta. Why would I willingly go to O'Charleys, Applebees or other place, when I can go to The Colonade, Mary Mack's, The Beautiful or other locally owned place that serves FAR better food at the same or lower prices. And if I want to spend more, I have never eaten better fare than you will find at The Iberian Pig.
I can’t remember the last time my wife and I ate at a sit down chain restaurant. Especially pizza
We have a long list of mom and pop restaurants that we patronize and debate which local pizza joint has the best pie.
