Is lunch getting too expensive?
Was wondering if I had been misperceiving this, or the price of lunch at restaurants really had been creeping up as compared to dinner.
When I was a young man, lunch was often half the price (and sometimes less) of comparable dinner fare.
Now it’s often the same price or only a little discounted.
This has personally made me more likely to bring food to work as why would I pay $12 for lunch and get half the food when I could get more for dinner at $14? Makes no sense economically.
There’s one good Mediterranean place I’ve found locally that charges by weight and since I eat very little compared to most Americans it’s cheap for me, often less than $7.
The other day when I walked out the woman ahead of me was buying lunch by weight as well. My total was $7.64. Her total was $14.61.
This explains very well why most Americans are the size of a house.
Well, there’s that. But honestly, the QSR and the fast casual really aren’t that fast anymore. On an average lunch break, there really isn’t enough time to go fetch lunch and eat it at a proper pace. Since half the reason I’d even eat out at lunch is to leave my desk and preferably the building, it’s not enjoyable.
I don’t like sitting in my car, but I notice a lot of my co-workers retreat to their cars to eat their lunch and (since it’s the South) sit in there with their engines running for an hour so the AC can be on.
I think your right about restaurant service having gotten slower, too. I wonder why?