I’m not in the restaurant business. Although, I take a practical approach to what I order based upon where I order it. For example, I wouldn’t go to a diner off the side of a highway far from any salt water and order the surf and turf. Get the pancakes with the eggs and bacon. Rarely will any such establishment screw this up.

What the hell is wrong with you? You think the guy in the back went to a dock at 5:30 AM this morning to pick the best of the day’s catch? No, there’s a bag of frozen shrimp he opens to grab out a handful every few weeks. Disgusting.

I know people who constantly make these sorts of blunders, and the results serve them right. A grim sense of practicality will never disappoint you, while the notion you can just order whatever you want will let you down nearly every time. I’ve never once considered eating at a Red Lobster.

Red Lobster abruptly closes at least 50 restaurants, blindsiding employees — including 14 in NY, NJ https://t.co/vnq1vVhFbG pic.twitter.com/SMT1WxSJSG

— New York Post (@nypost) May 14, 2024

I saw that McDonald’s is bringing back its 5-dollar meal. I get that everyone is barely surviving, but why do you think you can buy a meal of food from McDonald’s for 5 dollars? Whatever they’re serving is probably outright poisonous. For less than 5 dollars you could eat 6 hard boiled eggs and whatever fruit is cheapest at that time of the year. At this price, you can still eat food, you’ll just have to bring it to work and you’re probably not going to look forward to eating it.

Sure, a burger and fries are way better, but don’t think that’s what you can have for 5 dollars. McDonald’s isn’t running a charity, it’s there to stuff you with the cheapest slop that fools you into thinking it’s food until you keel over and die. Get real, lower your expectations. Do you think the sailors who made it to America reveled in eating hard tack?

McDonald's $5 meal deal could win back inflation-weary customers, Bank of America says https://t.co/pWGSVI9qzZ

— Quartz (@qz) May 13, 2024

Soylent green could win back desperate street dwellers, authorities say. As Americans, we’ve been used to a good standard of living in which anything we want is available to anyone at any time of the year. That’s not the case anymore, but Americans have still been spending this way, probably because credit cards have made up the difference. The average debt per credit card (not consumer) is around twice what the average consumer is taking home every month. Once those minimum payments get too high, a crisis ensues, which probably explains what’s happening to restaurants like Red Lobster.

Eating out is one of the easiest things to economize on. When you’re home, you can eat food that you cooked there for a much lower price and if you’re at work you can always bring a sandwich. It’s not so easy on the road, but it’s the best we can expect.

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