She has another article about spending $460 on a dinner. Does shilling for chain restaurants pay that well?
https://www.businessinsider.com/review-is-the-capital-grille-worth-it-for-family-2024-2
A filet mignon is one of my 13-year-old daughter's favorite dinners, so she was thrilled to find one on the menu.
At $58, it was about the same price as my steak entrée. She ate nearly all of it, only taking a little home as leftovers.
The price of one of her kid's meals costs more than an average restaurant meal for my family
You could buy the filet from a grocery store, grill it at home, and feed the whole family for that same price PLUS there's a very good chance it'll taste better.
That shit doesn't even look good. $460 could literally get you a Michelin star tasting menu dinner for two.
I once went on a date to a place that had a Michelin star and it wasn't that expensive. I think I made it out under $70.
That's why I specified the tasting menu part. With those you're essentially getting a show for two plus hours and like a dozen different small plates of the best food you've ever had.
Terri Peters lives in Florida
Florida minimum wage: $12
$165 meal ÷ $12/hr = 13.75 hours worked to pay for one family meal (pretax)
Let's just be more honest: if you're the sole breadwinner for a family of four and making $12 an hour, the only thing on the menu is starvation. Meat is unthinkable.
I could cook you up some steaks, french fries, and a bottle of cheap wine for under $20 lady
But can you turn an onion into a 1320 calorie monstrosity?
god those things are good, i wish there was a different place that did them *near me that i knew abt
if your 13 year old declares filet mignon is their favorite dish, you have fucked up your child.
My in laws have a kid way younger than the others, he gets the most expensive stuff off the menu everywhere they go, literally lobster and filet mignon and shit. Little weirdo goes on about wanting a Lamborghini and a Tesla. It's so wild to see.
filet mignon seems like a boomer food to me
it's like mowing the lawn excessively (also a boomer habit), you pay a lot and spend a lot of effort for nothing. It's the chicken breast of the cow.
Yeah, filet mignon is only expensive because it's a super small cut, not because its the best.
I will never understand the appeal of Outback
It was literally made by a couple rich dudes from California to ride the back of the Crocodile Dundee craze
outback is hard carried by the bloomin onion. i don't think there's any other reason to go
I got a cheap electric deep fryer for like $30 and with how much french fries cost these days it paid for itself in like a month.
I also grew up running around a commercial kitchen so that might also play a factor
I'm all out of kitchen space so even if you're right about the appliance, it wouldn't be any good for me
Their bread is pretty good, but I don't ever actually eat out anyway, so it's not good enough to make an exception. Restaurants are not my idea of fun.
It's not even Australian. We don't even know what a bloomin onion is
I'm legitimately trying to figure out how anyone could willingly pay nearly $60 for a single portion of filet mignon from fucking Outback. I've gone to nice steakhouses for dates that charged less than that.
I think the $60 filet was at capital grille (lol). The filet at outback looks like it's $26 on the receipt in the screenshot. Even then that seems pricey.
I don't eat meat, but when I did twenty years ago, filet mignon was like $25 the three times I got it. That was at restaurants that were better than outback.
Restaurants have gotten craaaazy expensive in the past year or so
very true. saw somewhere that it's cheaper to eat at chilis than taco bell rn.
still like the other poster further down said, we've got a local spot nicer than outback with cheaper entrees
Steak is literally one of the easiest things to cook. You can easily buy a nice USDA prime steak from a local butcher, pay 25% the cost, and cook it in 20-30 minutes. If you're fancy, and it's a thick cut, dry brine it overnight with salt, and then sous vide or bake in oven at like 250, then finish by searing in a hot pan with butter (or ghee) that was infused with rosemary and crushed garlic. Still stupid easy to do.
I only go out to eat for things that are a pain to make, like many Indian dishes.
cw: meat
I find choice is just fine if you’re not fucking up the cooking
I only go out to eat for things that are a pain to make, like many Indian dishes.
I posted this take on reddit once and got hit with frothing mayo
Only things I go out for are certain Indian dishes, the forbidden noodle of Gansu, and pizzaand cook it in 20-30 minutes
Steak takes around 10 minutes to cook
That's actually not good, I got a similar spread from an actually nice local restaurant for about $20 less the other day. Why would I spend that much at a chain?
When they asked me if I was ready to order and I said "Well, we're not here to fuck spiders" they politely asked me to leave
Absolutely deplorable
Speak for yourself!
I'll save you all the trouble and call for suicide-by-volcel-vanguard myself...
Aussie culture feels incredibly forced. It feels like there's nothing backing it up except a slightly different british accent, venomous animals, and Steve Irwin (technically falls into both of those categories but he was a pretty swell fella)
If I"m paying that much at a restaurant, I'm going to a good place.
Uncle Xi cooks up HUMONGOUS bowl of noodles and feeds entirety of Hunnan province for just 10 yuan
The sino-soviet split happened because Stalin tried to eat Maos big bowl of noodles with his big spoon
