It’s so expensive to eat out here nowadays

I’m just ranting, preaching to the choir, yelling at clouds. My wife and I went out to eat twice this weekend, pretty rare but it’s a long weekend and we felt like splurging. We spent $140 for two good but nothing special meals.

1. We ate a cafe in Othello for breakfast. I got a coffee and a breakfast legally-not-a-crunchwrap kind of thing. My wife got a matcha and a breakfast sandwich. We split a prepackaged stroopwafel. This cost us $60.
2. For lunch we tried a new Vietnamese place in Roosevelt. We got one appetizer and two vegetarian entrees. We drank waters. This meal cost us $80 after tip. The service here was pretty subpar but the food was great.

I dunno it’s just so dang expensive to eat out at pretty basic restaurants today. It’s becoming harder each day to justify spending these prices, but I know it’s just a death spiral at that point. Less traffic into restaurants means smaller margins, which means less restaurants and higher prices for the ones that are left.

I don’t have anything new to say here. I’m just ranting. I love the city and couldn’t imagine being elsewhere, but dang I wish we could get our food situation sorted out.