[b40d-48b2-979e]

Sounds like you don't pay for a family of people. I went out to dinner last night at a low/mid tier restaurant and it was over $100.

[sjsdaiuasgdia]

Did you spend $68 to feed 3 at Popeye's? If not, your comment is pretty irrelevant to this thread.

[ceejayoz]

In my area, the three piece combo - fries, drink, and a biscuit - is $16.79 before tax on UberEats for pickup, and I'm in a fairly low COL area. $68 for three sounds about right.

[senordevnyc]

UberEats prices are often inflated vs. in-restaurant. As many others have pointed out, $68 makes no sense.

[ceejayoz]

I checked on the Popeyes website in my area - $50 with tax for three three-piece combos.

$68 is entirely believable for expensive areas; I'm in the rust belt.

[senordevnyc]

$48.96 for me, with tax. And I live in Manhattan.

[ceejayoz]

Manhattan's an outlier in many things. I'd expect, for example, foot traffic to be much larger at such a location.

(See, for example, the famous $1 pizza slice that lasted a lot longer there than elsewhere.)

[b40d-48b2-979e]

Dining prices are up to an extraordinary amount compared to pre-COVID. Prices never went back down despite inflation being "reigned in". Being surprised at a $68 bill at Popeyes just expresses you don't have a family to provide for, which is probably the default position of most of the posters on this forum.

[sjsdaiuasgdia]

I eat a lot of fast food, including Popeye's. I buy for myself sometimes, other times I'm buying for groups of various sizes.

It has gotten more expensive. But if you're spending $68 for 3 people at Popeye's, someone in that group is eating at levels that will eventually win them a spot on "My 600lb Life".

[vel0city]

> Being surprised at a $68 bill at Popeyes just expresses you don't have a family to provide for

I have a family to provide for. I'm surprised at a $68 bill at Popeyes. Taking my family there is normally a good bit less than that. Maybe if it was in some tourist trap area or something, but generally that would be quite high.

[Dylan16807]

> Prices never went back down despite inflation being "reigned in".

A) Dining prices going up that much was way more than inflation.

B) Reigning in inflation doesn't mean prices go back down, it means they stop increasing quickly.

[jagged-chisel]

Gonna need more info. How many people did that feed? What is your definition of “mid tier restaurant?”