For us, pre-covid we did eat out a lot. Mostly because of the convenience factor. Both of us work, neither of us particularly like to cook, and coming home after working all day and cooking wasn't really something that was really high on our list of things we wanted to do. Kinda like I pay someone to mow my lawn - I could do it myself, but I really don't want to. Being at home, obviously it became a lot more convenient to cook, which in turn helped us with getting some of our expenses under control. I'll be the first to admit that we fell in the category of people that spend more than they really should. Getting a chance to reset that helped, and as I've said, is about the only good thing I feel about this whole situation.

But I'll be honest, I'm getting real sick of eating my own cooking, so once the debt elimination part is done, I'm definitely going back to eating out more. I do wonder how well the restaurants will recover though, I suspect we're still going to lose a lot that have made it so far. Friday night we were at a bar/food type of establishment to eat before going to the minor league baseball game, which is what we'd normally do on a night where we go to those games. Staffing there seemed about what I'd say was normal, but the restaurant never really hit 50% capacity at any point we were in there. Now, on that particular day, capacity was still limited to 50% in our state, but this wasn't an issue where they'd hit that and were turning people away, it was that they weren't getting enough people to even hit that mark in the first place.