Originally Posted by
yyznomad
I feel kind of bad for service staff, but at the same time, I have no plans to dine out or have drinks out anytime soon... the one time I went for drinks during covid, the place I went to had nearly doubled their prices (not sure whether supply chain scarcity / "covid tax" / etc.)... so screw that.
We're definitely eating out less often due to inflationary prices. Yesterday, I picked up two Reubens with chips from a local deli for lunch, as I figured we should eat corned beef...$37...and that wasn't holiday pricing. It's not stopping us from going where we want, just doing it less often. I haven't yet seen it impact drink prices, but it's not like booze has ever been cheap in the Chicago area anyway. But I would refuse to eat anywhere that makes up some kind of surcharge, whether it's attributed to COVID, inflation, health care rules, etc. Fortunately it's not common here.