• @[email protected]
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    No good restaurant has a $15 entree unless your idea of good is Chile’s. Which is fine, no judgment to those who enjoy Chile’s and such. But let’s be clear here.

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      That depends very much where you live. Around me, 8-15 is a pretty standard range for decent sit-down places. You can pay more, but most places hit that range pretty squarely. Depending where you go, you can get burgers and the like for under $4, much better quality than fast food, but not sit down places.

      Wages here are pretty damned low, though, so they really can’t charge a lot and actually have business.

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        5 months ago

        I agree depends very much on where you live but anywhere where Burger King costs over $30 is going to be more expensive than the kind of areas you are talking about. That seems to be the underlying assumption in this thread at least.

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          But that really isn’t true either because fast food has gotten quite out of control here as well.

          A large whopper meal at the closest place is almost $17. So you could easily hit $30 for 2.

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            Dude a whopper meal doesn’t cost $17 anywhere. A cursory google search will show you that. The most expensive I see is $12 and that is 1 source. The rest run $6-$10 typically.

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              45 months ago

              Dunno what to tell you man, that’s what comes up here on the bk website. There’s a whole 2 locations within an hour of me. I don’t eat fast food and I’m not about to install their app just for this conversation, so but hey, let’s even say the $16.70 is a whole 20% higher than the actual price… that’s still like $14 for the large meal, which still puts it squarely within the $30/2 range.

              • @cm0002
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                I tend to agree with @[email protected] , prices can vary wildly, in my area I’m closer to his 12ish bucks. This is for a large meal WITH cheese and bacon

    • @shalafi
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      Where do you live?! I ate a Mexican lunch so fat I nearly exploded. $20, tip and all.

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        Lunch specials i would say certainly deserve an asterisks, and $20 is a lot of money for one meal.

    • @MrJameGumb
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      Well yeah $15 is not going to get you haute cuisine prepared by Chef Ramsay himself, but there are tons of little local spots that fall in that range. Hell, I could get Chinese take out or a whole pizza and spend less than $30, and those are both better than Burger King lol

    • @captainlezbian
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      24 months ago

      Where the hell do y’all live? Because round here plenty of places have good entrees for $15, sure it’s been creeping up to 18 lately but I’m pretty sure I can get a decent meal for that.