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Economy

piddyprints

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8. In our area,

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sun Aug 10, 2025, 08:22 PM

Aug 10

Restaurants are adding 3% to the bill if you use a credit card. New menus show higher prices, but then the server comes to the table to say that some of the things are more than the news menu says.

People are going to have enough trouble affording groceries. Eating out will be cut for many families. I know we’re cutting down from our normal 2-3 times/month. I really don’t care if I never eat out again, but my husband likes it.

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Restaurants are under threat as costs skyrocket and consumers cut back [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Aug 10 OP

DUers should start a local dining buddy system bucolic_frolic Aug 10 #1

I think you mean dining at home. That would be ideal: Bernardo de La Paz Aug 10 #3

Double threat: tariff taxes on inputs plus higher production costs for domestic inputs due to ICE. Bernardo de La Paz Aug 10 #2

This economic death spiral of higher costs resulting in fewer consumers will only get worse. sop Aug 10 #4

wholesale hamburger "up nearly 21% compared to the same month 10 years ago" - I can believe 1 year ago progree Aug 10 #5

I saw that. It looks like a typo to me too. mahatmakanejeeves Aug 10 #7

Typo, or something partly written by AI, and the human editor was a vegetarian, and so never had the experience of progree Aug 10 #9

Hmm, FRED says just 32.7% from 6/01/15 to 6/01/25 (that's just 2.87%/year) progree Aug 10 #10

FRED needs to get to the Giant. I was there yesterday (Saturday). mahatmakanejeeves Aug 10 #11

Or the BLS needs to get to Giant (FRED just regurgitates the BLS numbers) progree Aug 10 #12

We are in a FULL fledged recession, I don't care what the numbers say democratsruletheday Aug 10 #6

In our area, piddyprints Aug 10 #8

Here's a silly idea... BWdem4life Aug 10 #13