A Restaurant Apocalypse Is Starting To Sweep Across America & That Is Bad News For The U.S. Economy
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 พ.ค. 2024
- You just have to look around and see what's happening to the restaurants in your area to understand that the U.S. economy is headed in the wrong direction. When the economy is booming, restaurants are full and chains open more locations to expand their business. But when the economy is struggling, restaurants get increasingly emptier, and underperforming locations go belly up. Sadly, it seems that a "restaurant apocalypse" has started to sweep across the country this year.
Faced with higher living expenses, most households have very little discretionary income to spend as a result of inflated prices, and that's particularly true for our young adults.
Americans love to eat out, but these days about 60% are living paycheck to paycheck, and report experiencing financial distress. Without the extra dollars to spend at the end of each month, people are consuming less, and many sectors are hurting. The restaurant industry is being disproportionately hard hit by this trend.
According to data from Placer.ai, visits to sit-down restaurants were down nearly five percent in the past year. People just can't afford to dinner out as much as they once did.
Consequently, we're witnessing a wave of restaurants closings that is growing larger all over the nation. Even in the Big Apple, many famous restaurants are being shut down.
Despite being known for its great fining spots, New York City has been facing a major decline in foot traffic in recent years. From December 2023 to January 2024 alone, more than 40 big restaurants and bars were shut down, with some owners saying business simply never picked up after COVID lockdowns in 2020.
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If you think inflation is hurting fast food chains what do you think it's done to the middle class? It destroyed them. There is no middle class today and families cant afford $40 or $50 for cardboard burgers and oversalted fries plus a drink.
Chapter 11 is theft. They shouldn’t even get a first chance.
It's not the salt. It's the poisonous seed oils they fry them in. When they stopped frying in tallow, everyone began getting fat and sick. Haven't you noticed?
Socialist/Marxism had to break the middle class because their cash flow funded the entire madhouse. Wait until the "Entitled Victims" get cut-off from their UBI or whatever they're using to suck off the system because there's no middle-class to prop it up, anymore. There will be screaming, wailing & gnashing of teeth. Lol😫 😰 😭
@@keithwolstenholme4238exactly! People don’t want to forgive student debt but have no problem forgiving failed business ventures. If our government worked for the people the tuition wouldn’t ever have become so high and people could save for business ventures and other things like college. This fiat currency had been a trap for the beginning. Nobody noticed because they paid off that generation with a decent wage and value on the dollar. I mean, its gonna crash regardless. Thats what it was designed to do while slowly stealing the labor off the backs of the people. There’s clear education on this matter but nobody is willing to learn. Our minds have become so consumed with everything but what’s important.
@@keithwolstenholme4238AGREED
when poor people can't afford dollar stores we are in big trouble
When dollar stores close because they can't afford the customer stealing and theft we are in big trouble
The main problem with them as well as other stores is all the shoplifting.
Oh, but the corrupt politicians ever keep giving our tax money to very corrupt money-laundering Ukraine, and to the illegal immigrants. Like a crazed religious cult or an addiction to drugs, spiting the Americans who they are supposed to be working for. While giving little to Maui Hawaii or to homeless veterans. Evil Democrats hate America. Mark Levin even came out with a book, _The Democrat Party Hates America._ I just finished reading it.
@@winniethepoohandeeyore2
The shoplifting is due to _soft-on-crime_ Democrats and Soros prosecutors who refuse to do their jobs. As if the evil Democrats are purposely trying to destroy our economy.
Dollar store aint a dollar more like 2 to 7 dollars now and theft and neo liberal crime is a problem too
I stopped eating Fast Food 6 months ago and lost 30 Lbs now a lot fitter. Make sandwiches and fresh coffee in a flask no more Monosodium in Fast Food. Try it you will never go back and will be wealthier.
You're right. That stuff isn't good for you anyway.
Eventually, if you want to be healthy, you'll HAVE to do that. I did a couple years back and lost 40 lbs (only meant to lose 30 but got in the habit of eating far less), and greatly improved my metabolism.
For 40+ years I ate fast food because it was both cheap and convenient and I was busy. But it's no longer cheap (or even reasonable) for most fast food, and being retired really changes the "busy" picture.
You guys are missing the whole point. The economy is doing very bad and getting worse. If everyone starts cooking at home like you say, grocery stores will be next to start closing. While government grocery stores will be popping up and you can't buy without a chip.
So this video should've been about you instead of the economy. Got it.
Same, I cut out fast food and all processed foods. I still want certain things but not being able to understand the ingredients drove me crazy. I’ve noticed a weight difference and I’ve been on a better fitness journey, I didnt care for “fast food” anyways
Who gives a shit about restaurants. They are completely inflated. I’d rather grow and cook my own food.
Yep. And no pesticides.
Right? Screw em all
That is just opening opportunities for owners to open own business.
I get bumper catches of fish and game where I live and everyone has gardens and chickens we trade w each other just like old days when our ancestors were contending w the great depression. It's just a way of life here and it's not in California, west coast, east coast including Florida or Texas. Real American is where most people wouldn't think of moving to. Two years ago I left CA. Best move I ever made. No bar codes on most of my food only spices and a few other items. Neighbor just gave me two chickens yesterday made chicken patties yum yum good free clean food much better tasting than processed bar code chickens.
fr, ppl should be encouraged to have a small farm
A Wendy's in walking distance from my place has closed. I could tell that at least one homeless person has begun living near one of its side entrances. Two Family Dollar stores in close proximity have closed, one within walking distance.
Something is coming, folks. Be ready.
Oh my gosh i am sooooo scared. Get the fuck out of here.
LOL Sure bud
It arrived three presidents ago and has been speeding down hill ever since.
@@jamill79 Anyone with a half of a brain knows the crash is coming.
@@jamill79your a fool! I bet you have nothing prepared! I'm good for 10 years 🎉 get ready to starve 😮
We certainly do NOT need McDonalds! I hope the greedy fast food outlets all go out of business. The world will be a better place to live in without that constant greed!!!
We need more manufacturing jobs in America, not more burger flipping jobs!
Blame Nixon. He never should have gone to China. Or taken the country off the gold standard. Also Clinton and his NAFTA.
This is the truth!
The truth hurts.
Restaurants are horrible,selling so called food that is not fit for human consumption by using seed oils,sugar,grain flour and more sugar….Unfortunately consumers are set up for heart disease,diabetes,cancer and obesity and it’s getting worse
Honk honk
They are pricing themselves right out of business...
A small starbucks latte is now $5.15
That combined with people having less expendable income.
Unfortunately these restaurant employees won't be able to find another food service job-!!!😭.
@@asullivan4047 Boo-hoo Hoo get a real job! That doesn’t rely on customers to pay your salary!!
Wow, you know things are bad when you're banned from filing for bankruptcy for a second time!
Lol
Lol that’s funny yet so true
There should be no bankruptcy to begin with.
the government will bail them out
@@kennylynch8575 No they won't, the people will pay for it and have less money to spend.
McDonald's five dollar meal is just the Happy meal rebranded 🙄🤣
But where's my toy???? (I recall an ad showing some teen with a shake, fries, and burger with "change from your dollar.")
I'll have to try one of those-???🤔.. After July's S.S check arrives/ if I have $ 5.00 leftover-???😳.
prices at McDs yesterday at Glen Ellyn ill. $5.14 inc. tax for a regular cheese burger and small fry no drink good bye McDs
@@brentpalmer2577 they're selling the mc flurrys right now in my neighborhood the grandma one 5.00 Plus Tax 🤪
Perhaps this will solve America's obesity, Cholesterol and heart attack epidemic!
Nope Americans are addicted to fast food and sugar smh 😢😢
It will help IF people eating at home will eat much more sensibly.
Given the size and scale of the problem, including bad habits like being too sedentary, the idea that alone will "solve" the overall problem is silly.
won't solve anything, still be buying shit from grocery shops.
Hey , you forgot diabetes!
Hopefully fast food has a lot of calories and no nutritional value .
During covid we all relearned the Joy of Cooking and we find we are better cooks than restaurant chefs.😊😊😊
It costs too much to eat out
Not in China.
I grew up with family dinners. Nobody went to a restaurant, it was too expensive in the 60's for us. Chinese food was kinda affordable for once in a while for some people. Then came fast food joints. It changed everybody's life. The science of making it taste good, better than all those untrained cooks raising a family. So everyone quit mom's food forever. Chef's and kids cooking at fast food took over. People went because with no family at the table it was too lonely and too much kitchen work to eat at home. The junk food industry increased people's appetites. Food obscession was everywhere and everyone got fat avoiding the kitchen at home. Kids loved it and hated home cooked meals. Flavor and ingredients designed for addiction, took over appetites. Now everyone is fat all because they opened up a junk food industry that was part of destroying families.
WELL put
Hollywood
Fast food joints
Drugs
Booze government run schools
Big pharma
Are mostly the blame, but we the people let this happen to us!
ELOQUENTLY PERFECT
Mom's cooking required mom being at home. That's not really possible anymore for most people.
Same here. Mom normally cooked, and we went out OCCASIONALLY and it was a TREAT -- both for mom having a night off cooking, and us for a change of pace.
I think the rarity of single earner families had a big influence in eliminating much of home cooking.
Us millenials and zoomers finally listened to the boomers when they said "well stop eating out".
Millennials are killing restaurants!
What infuriates me is the billions we send to other countries! Our politicians don't care about Americans!
We are $35,000,000,000,000.00 in debt! The Government pays $2,000,000,000.00 in interest every day!!! And the crazy thing is, they are increasing their spending!!!
@@garybulwinkle82 Leftards goal is to destroy America.
Rent is too high can't afford food ☹️
I am south african and we experience the same things. So do other countries. No middle class. Stores closing. Only millionaires can take loans. A common civilian making an honest living cant take a loan or get a job. Yet we have all this amazing technology.
Socialism in real time. Never has and never will work.
Well at least the colonialists are gone.
Welcome to the obama😈/biden 😈democratic cess pool party. " New World " disorder ideology syndrome-!!!😉
Same boat. Can't get more than 75 dollars per month worth of food.
We have massively overbuilt restaurants and fast food. Some of these old chains have been on life support for over a decade and need to just die off. The problem is even if you eat at home it isn't exactly a low cost option either. Even in the express line 10 items or less it can easily run you 100 bucks now lol.
But with $20 for a meal at McDonald’s that $100 groceries store bill can last a few more days
We sent our economy to China, that's the problem.
Let me guess -- in your world, the earth is flat and vaccines are wildly dangerous.
You can get LOTS of healthy food very reasonably at a typical grocery store, if you don't insist on Organic, fancy brands, or expensive meat, for example.
Yes, good point, @HayW. But, just cook in bulk where the money goes further. Trust me -- its many times cheaper to eat at home ... probably something like 1/5 to 1/10 of eating out.
Burger king was great in the 80s-90s. They sucked in 2000s onwards
$16 for a McChicken which is mostly bread, flour batter, small piece of chicken. I can buy two medium size whole broiled chickens in the local supermarket for $16.00.
Why do we care what happens to fast food chains? Unbelievable!! We have way bigger fish to fry.
We make our own food fuck all this over processed food. Not to mention all the chemicals they put it the food
Amen brother.
That's not the point....the economy is tanking.
@AfricanTravellerChannel that's why Americans need to be self satainable because the government is here to screw us over. Being self sufficient is the point . Government is not here to save you
Agree! The comma between food and f#@k would be helpful, lol.
That's why I'm moving in the direction of a vegan diet partially and if I can completely!
McDonald's, Burger King, and Taco Bell is nasty tasting food nowadays...
That's the main reason why they're losing...
Right
It's not even real food I don't eat at none of these places...
McDonald's has been producing lousy food for over 50 years. That's not the reason it's dying.
@@cdsersd2d
In the 1970's 80's and 1990's McDonald's quality of food was on point, how els would McDonald's have gone worldwide with franchises...
When Chicken Mcnuggets came out in the 1980's it was the most explosive item McDonald's could've came out with and now the tase of Mcnuggets is horrible as well as they burgers...
McDonald's use to be what In-N-Out is today, extremely successful restaurant full of people, and drive throughs full at every location also...
But not anymore, McDonald's was never empty every time you'll walk in and you and a few other people would be the only ones inside...
McDonald's was on top for some decade with good food, but not anymore...
Trust and believe if McDonald's food was nasty for 50 years we wouldn't be talking world wide franchises and national wide success on a multi Billion if not trillion dollar scale at one point...
@@cdsersd2d
Sorry for e-book l typed as a rebuttal...😄✌️
Pre-pandemic, I used to eat out about twice a month. Post-pandemic? About once every five months. Why? It is simply too expensive to eat out now.
same here. The last time I had McDonald's was for my 18th birthday. (over six months ago). I only have fast food once every few months nowadays.
What I've noticed is good restaurants aren't hurting.
Same, you guys not only ones. I just can't afford $20 bucks per fucking meal. Damned pricing themselves out of market. Like I said above ... Restaurant prices are TOO MUCH now, so we are not eating out. We are cooking at home for everything. Thankfully, we learned so much from Covid Times, so we can cook better than ever. So, we are just going to use Three Magic Words ... "Google COPYCAT RECIPES" ... Because we are not going to pay $20+/$25+ per person to eat at some fast food restaurant. We're not rich.
@@neohistoryfan1014 The quality of McD's has taken a precipitous downturn, so you're better off not eating there. It's healthier to cook at home, too.
Fast food is trash, especially at the current prices. Nobody needs to eat it.
We're tired of these Corporate Executive making Millions and the sinking middle class dieing and just getting by.
Dying
There's a huge profit in killing people by enticing them to make unhealthy choices. Goals achieved are, profiteering (to be not confounded with merely profits), health business industry, & massive United States population reduction.
Executive compensation is absolutely out of line. You can look up what these guys are making.
The upside is that Americans will be a lot healthier eating at home
The OTHER reason restaurants are closing is the LACK thereof Good service staff. When going into a restaurant and see PINK or GREEN hair and rings in LIPS EARS EYES etc, that takes my appetite.
You got that right!!
I wont hire anyone under 40 yrs old the kids are useless pains in the ass !!
Amen, my friend! People used to take 'pride' in their appearance. Today they take pride in their "PRIDE" (if you get my drift). Ringling Bros may be a thing of the past, but who cares? You can see circus clowns everywhere you go, LOL!
What takes my appetite it's a bunch of old irrelevant people thinking that green hair and a nose piercing has anything to do with customer service or quality of food LMAO
They are disgusting to look at, for sure. Freak show...
Prices went up. Business went down. They will go out of business and wonder what happened before they will ever get a clue and lower their prices.
We did Mothers' Day at Olive Garden and they have "take away" things that are only $6!
They make them at Olive Garden and we take them home to microwave. So good!
You do realize these businesses are having to pay more for inflated wholesale pricing? No one is giving them free meat and buns to sell. They can't drop prices and still make a profit, and if they aren't making a profit, whats the point of being in business?
@@KingfishStevens-di9ji If the wholesalers want to stay in business, they'll need to drop their prices.
If restaurants close, the unemployment rate will be 20 percent.
It's already 20%, they've been fudging the numbers for decades.
More like 25%
@@dimitriberozny3729 Very possible! It would be bad!
@@gvinnydog5500. Why! Hotels would close also,because of the hospitality overlap.
It's already is 20% +, they're just lying to you and manipulating the numbers to create fake politics. Same way they're been using 'job creation' as a false metric in politics forever. It's a way to pretend like they're doing something, but it doesn't actually do anything. In this case they're pretending like we have a working country when we don't.
We havent eaten out in almost 3 years, saves a fortune and much better quality.
True, but eating out is nice for the atmosphere and a break cooking and cleaning up the kitchen. It's just nice sometimes.
@susanlester1 this is why we eat out once a week. I cook the other 6 nights a week.
@@susanlester1 Naw, my dishwasher is a huge help. made fried fish, hushpuppies, french fries, cole slaw and garlic bread.. Would be a fortune now in a restaurant
@@angelbabe1977 Same, Covid Times taught us how to be good cooks. But, now, we are becoming Great Cooks because we're committed to cooking at home, most meals.
@@winniethepoohandeeyore2 Hell yeah, love our dishwasher. We cook at home so much that I put in a second dishwasher to help with all of the dirty dishes.
I just paid $6 for a small Dairy Queen sundae. The counter clerk actually apologized.
So why did you pay it.??? Just say NO.
Restaurant business is rotten in north america, the prices are too high, the food quality is very low and the stupid tipping culture is getting out of hand. I just came back from vacations in Italy and all the restaurant were doing well. The food quality was high, the prices were very good and most of all, no tipping culture. Christ! I hate at a gas station at Ceglie Messapica, for 10 euro they filled my plate with sausages, pasta, chicken parmesan, green vegetables and i got a beer for 3,5 euro, and they were like are sure you don't want more on your plate? And I was like, no thanks that's plenty for me, I still have to cycle up to Alberobello. They had a full kitchen in a gas station! Same when I went to Japan, most restaurant were small family own places with good food, reasonable prices and no tipping culture.
Very well said. Franchises add an extra layer of bureaucracy. Tipping is out of hand. Restaurant employees refuse to work for a reasonable rate. That needs to change because consumers simply will not pay what they are asking.
Used to be McDonalds gave you "change back in your pocket" - now a fish filet sandwich costs nearly $10 ???
MCDeath is not food.
No they aren't. They're $5.49 anywhere in Denver. Sandwich only
Happens when you raise minimum wage to $20. Brilliant…
@@joeblow8206 not where I live
Yuk
The real kicker for me is McDonald's advertise on their drive thru menus a "$1,2,3 dollar menu"....
Any soda /tea - $1.49
Iced coffee - $2
4pc nuggets - 3.09
Small fries - $3.29
Mcdouble /MchChicken - $3.39/ $3.49
Nothing is actually $1, 1 item is $2. and everything else cost "more" than $3.... Theyve had the same "1,2,3" menu since sodas were acrually $1.... it went to $1.29... and now $1.49. Im not loving it. i feel betrayed! 💔 😢🍟 🍔 😂
If you feel betrayed then you need to realign what matters to you.
in my country we have one dollar coffee and small cola drink .
Wow OJ passed away and now the price of orange juice is increasing
Starvation? Heaven forbid you have to live off fruits and vegetables.
There are still way too many restaurants in the USA.
Not enough LOCAL restaurants with real whole ingredients! Maybe this exodus of the out-of-state behemoths will create a space for great local restaurants to flourish again as they once did!
Oh but but we don't need manufacturing, we will become a service based economy they said. It's ''globalization'' they said.
No there are not people enjoy going out
Too many restaurants. Too much retail space. Too many colleges and universities selling overpriced, worthless degrees. Most of our economy seems to be providing something we actually don't need and could easily do without.
@@gregoryabbot420 agree
If all these bubble restaurants folds, I will NOT starve. In fact the fewer restaurants open, the less likelihood my money leaves my pocket.
Inflation is not just hitting the restaurants and fast food chains. Inflation is hitting everywhere.
Went to Taco Bell today. Two crunchwraps and two soft tacos with no drinks was nearly $19. A few weeks ago my wife ordered a large and a medium one topping pizza from Round Table and that was nearly $80. We made the decision to stop eating out entirely. I even changed jobs so I can get home earlier to cook.
We went to Olive Garden for Mothers' Day and they had $6 "take aways". We got 2 to take home and have for lunch the next day. This might be a good alternative to $20 Mc D's.
Highly doubt you paid 80 for a large and medium pizza.
@@SamsungGalaxy-nm5qt Great idea, we'll all stop eating until next Mothers Day when Olive Garden has their $6 carry out deal again. If I was in there paying $25/plate and some douche was carrying the same meal out in a bag for six bucks, I'd be livid.
@@elw6150 We just bought and picked up two basic pizzas from Domino's it was $55
Most stop eating out
High rents,high housing costs.basic costs of living have gobbled up all the money so little left to go around the rest of the economy.
We need more immigration to push down those vacancy rates and push up the rents even higher. Landlords really need the help.
My husband just said our Red Lobster here in Maryland is closing! Wow
Their all you can eat shrimp promo killed them.They showed a guy on TV who bragged he had 30 servings. I bet there were a lot more like him, too.
@@whatsamattayu3257 they should’ve did like McDonald’s there fish sandwich was bogo for a day! lol 😂 we tried to go back they said the sell was over
They're all closing. Bankrupt.
They’re going bankrupt because they were gutted by the private equity firm that bought them
They didn't buy the land that Red Lobster built on. They jacked up prices on land leases.
I see a McDonald's food prices went up and the CEO McDonald's cashing in big time😮
I'll never sell my McDonald's stock. They will be the first to launch the McSoylent!!® Made with genuine Soylent Green. Lol
Dam you CEO's. You people are so clueless, you'll be living in a Samsung refrigerator box still complaining about ''Corporate greed''
Whatever distraction you need to keep voting Biden, go for it my man.
McDonald's is a reality company. They make their money from rent paid to them from owner operators which makes up tof 80% of stores. Store owners pay them 20 % of income on rent, around 20-25% to staff then there is food cost, utilities, insurance, etc. Really one store doesn't make that big of a profit. So yes when wages go up the profit goes down. Think of it like this. Say you make about 2000 A month and after you pay out everything you are banking only 10% of what you make.
@@ChatGPT1111 Biden is for people who don't understand facts and economics.
I live in Chicago. In a shopping center about 4 blocks from home, I see a plasma clinic and a marijuana "dispensary" (actually you've got to buy the stuff) about a block down. When I'm waiting at the bus stop nearby I watch people walk into the clinic to sell their blood plasma during a 90 minute stay (so I'm told) and then they walk out and stroll directly to the "dispensary" to buy "pot." This country is lost, lost I tell you
I WOULD RATHER SEE THAT THAN GOING INTO A LIQUOR STORE TO BUY BOOZE AND DRIVE
Poor people were selling plasma in 1977-80 while I was in college. People were smoking LOTS of pot when I was in college -- it just wasn't legal then.
Acting like either of those things is a big deal OR at all new is nonsensical.
@@rogergeyer9851 Well, it's more wide spread now since it's legal.
Pot is a first step to disaster and poverty
This isn’t a country. It’s a corporation. And the people are Christian cattle. With labels like white black Mexican etc. This is the hell they are talking about.
The MOST we do is get fried chicken or a rotisserie chicken from the deli, make 2-3 sides with it, lasts us for days.
And what was minimum wage at that time , under two dollars ?
They’re not going out. Instead they’re DoorDashing cheap meals from Dollar General.
If you were truly tight on money, you wouldn't be paying Doordash fees for food. You'd be going out and getting it yourself and avoiding the fees.
Good! We as Americans will finally be healthy!
Finally, people will realize to spend their money on nutrition instead of garbage.
A diet of breakfast cereal, SPAM, and Kraft Dinner isn't exactly healthy.
@@Thanos88888 lol lmao! you're right!
Lack of fast food simply dosnt affect my life, so no starving here!
Exactly. Clickbait title. Just like the clowns who are economic doomers and claim things like "mass starvation" in the US for decades. Meanwhile in the real world, all sorts of food assistance for the poor, lots and lots of grocery stores with lots of food of all types, etc.
The problem started with the convenience of Door Dash. Sounds like a plus, but without customers in the restaurant, there's no need for servers, no tips, no deserts, no beverages, and NO ALCOHOL sales.
This is worse than 2008.
We never recovered from 2008. At least not fully.
@@LazarusSlade Yep, it only got worse to a point now that nothing could stop it from finally collapsing.
@@LazarusSladeRotted wood was just painted over.
Printing and borrowing trillions to give to the banks to prop them up… who would have thought it would lead to inflation and poverty for everyone else? Apparently “ this time it’s different “. Right, sure!
He’s not lying, when I needed a part time job, I would apply to restaurants and I would literally get a job within a day or two. This was about 1.5-2 years ago. I tried doing the same and now, no one is hiring. Keep in mind I used to get interviews same day I would submit an application.
Mc Donald’s food is full of fillers and garbage 🤮
Too bad for the student teens, they kind of rely on restaurant jobs, for pocket money/savings.
They can go to Job Corps and gete pocket change (in the form of a stipend) while they are earning a vocational certificate.
It's only for people ages 16 to 24 in the USA at www. JobCorps .gov.
You mean those sloths that rang up a big student loan debt, that got transferred to the taxpayers? No one cares.
I stopped eating fast food 15 years ago. One of the best decisions I have ever made
And am I the only one who saw this coming years ago ?
It's what happens when prices of everything keep going up, and we've reached the boiling point !
price their products out of reach. oh well.
gov't knows best. /S
We die
No, youre not alone. I saw this coming 15 years ago. I suppose no-body listened to you too, right?
BABYLON FINISHED!!!
The White Western Nations are going down together. Rome/Vatican is the Whore of Babylon. The USA was the enforcers for the bank-gangsters. Smedley Butler, look up his book & quotes.
TRUMPANZEES ARE FINISHED
Babylon is the Vatican. Not America.
Can you read? Babylon is a city built on 7 hills...NOT...a country. Lol
@@lilblackduc7312 Just another statement about our education system in the USA. Don't teach history so they can repeat those same mistakes my generation made.
Asked a recent college grad to tell me what 2 x 3 was in an interview. Got her phone out and punched in 2 + 2 + 2.
Needless to say, that app got pitched into the NOT ON YOUR LIFE WOULD I OFFER YOU A JOB.
I will never buy the latest iPhone its a waste of money all smart phones does the same thing what is the point
Try telling that to you average person. I never paid over $170 bucks cash for a phone.
An IPhone 11 is the best bang for the buck!! The new IPhones SUCK! You drop them,they are history!!
@@jackmehoff5523 I never paid over $29.00 for a phone. You dummie.
Apple is a huge cult. Android phones are more functional.
@@e-man2081 Older Samsungs are excellent.
Banks either close or merge. Eventually, you will basically have one bank controlling the entire banking sector. Impossible? Watch.
Never going to happen. Stop the BS
its on now get your money out b4 gov takes it
@@jamill79 Never say never
Or 3-4. The scary part is debanking, where if they don't like what you do, they shut down the accounts of you and your family. Happens more often than we'd like to think.
Learn how to cook with simple, high-quality ingredients.
Hate to break to you, but even the most rudimentary ingredients to creating a decent, filling meal can cost you fortunes. You can literally have 1/3rd of your cart filled, and still be charged an arm and a leg.
@@rolanddeer6212 High quality nutritious food for less than a dollar a serving per day. Just learn how. The information is everywhere.
@@rolanddeer6212and it can still taste so so after more than a year of trying to learn to cook tasty dishes.
@@bburn1793 I've been pretty good at cooking some things since I was like around 12, but some things I couldn't cook halfway right to save my life. But one day I caught an episode of one TV chef, and another day I got my hands on a good cookbook, not with recipes but with more explanation of what you're doing, food chemistry for cooks. Especially helpful is knowing someone who is a great cook who won't mind if you watch and help and ask questions. Now, for the last couple decades I regularly get compliments on food I cook, and hate almost all restaurant food because it isn't as good!
Bingo ☺️
When you have just a handful of companies controlling 70-80% of the food supply, you get price hikes and record profits for those companies. And that's exactly what we're seeing in the U.S. right now.
With these Restaurants their prices are rising, customer service is horrible and the Food is getting worse and worse! I will be Cooking at Home if I can help it!
Yep. I found the recipe to make my chipotle stuff at home!
They shrink portions and raised prices!
Grocery store dining has also cut into restaurants. people still eat out but get the precooked food at the grocery stores.
I think part of the problem is the entire concept of chain restaurants. If I eat at a local mom and pop the money stays local. It pays the owner, the cooks, and the wait staff. Eating at a chain the money is local and then there are stockholders and upper managment that have to get paid also. There are just too many needing to get paid from the price of meals without raising prices to the point it isn't worth it anymore.
So expensive, a drink for $4?
Count me in as someone who no longer eats out. I used to eat out every Sunday with a group from church, but no more. It’s a choice between eating out or buying meds.
You doing good on right path; now wean off all of the RX. If your greedy doctor who receives cash payments each month from Pharmaceutical Corporations on all renewals and new scripts, any pharmacist must tell you how to wean off safely. Think of the money youll save, probably feel better and lost the massive side effects these dangeorus, toxic RX all drugs do to all on them. (additictive too so you will keep buying).
Good people will live longer without restaurants and be more fit
Half the McDonalds and Stabucks have closed in the greater Toronto area and across the province of Ontario.
As an outsider I have got reports from many Americans for almost a year who have told me about this storm of restaurants bankruptcy that is sweeping across the country. Not only the restaurants are closing down but the supermarkets are getting emptier and companies are shortening working weeks just to keep their heads above water by reducing expenses. This scenario has been expected as the usa government has no structural plan to stimulate the economy, but doing the opposite by increasing import tariffs which will trigger inflation again.
If restaurants are closing and supermarkets are emptier, why are we all so overweight?
@@les0101s hahaha, according to a documentary the “obesity” is caused by a virus in hamburgers and “fast food”. These viruses do not die when the meat is fried on hot plates. But, your observation is correct that Americans tend to be obese. However, this “American disease” is not caused by too much eating but by viruses. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
If by chance, restaurant chose to re-open down the road, robots only work there. "Sorry, no human work available"
I refuse to patronize self-checkout or robot servers. I support real human workers!
Should tell them, sorry, no human money then. 😂
Many jobs have been automated since the industrial revolution. Nothing new about that. But now, more and more high skill jobs are being automated as well.
There are good reasons it makes sense to get a good education.
@@rogergeyer9851 Yes, a good versatile or specialized brain could save you. It depends if you get bored easily, repetitive jobs for yrs. It never was my bag, but I sure could learn new things real fast, self employment worked out well.
@@rogergeyer9851 education does not give BRAAAAINS. 90% of silly humans are useless in modern world, they can not be trained, educated or at least dressaged to level when they are at least safe, not risky and can be left alone without constant supervision.
We're all going to die
True
Yep....sooner or later. Just make sure to pay your taxes.
I have never kbown anyone that has mastered avoiding death
It does not have to be this way but the majority will not stand up for another. Instead, we turn our backs and look the other way. Good luck to all.
Eventually, but if you get understanding you'll never die...
People won't starve if resturants go under. Cook at home. It's cheaper and healthier.
Amen 100%
These people can't "cook at home" unless it's microwavable. They would burn oatmeal...
Dont buy anything
Dont go anywhere
Well I have been exploring leaving this has-been evil country for the last decade. Where do you suggest that I move to?
@@yosefmacgruber1920 North Korea
@@KingfishStevens-di9ji
How about a serious suggestion? I have watched a few YT videos suggesting Russia. Is Russia one of the last defenders of family values? Is Russia formerly-communist having learned their lesson, or still communist-ruined? Is their apparently friendliness towards Westerners a passing fad, or something longer-lasting? North Korea is a communist poverty mud-hole compared to South Korea, so it is an insult that you suggest North Korea rather than South Korea.
Americans seem to love to mock Putin without taking any effort to see if they perhaps could know what they are talking about, yet Putin is a lot smarter than zombie ByeDone, although I am not so sure that is saying much. I think just about everybody in the world, well except for Leftists and Democrats, is smarter than ByeDone.
@@yosefmacgruber1920 Go down to our southern border and ask those people that spent a years wages and risked their lives getting here which is the best country to live in.
@@KingfishStevens-di9ji
If the Democrats are importing all those illegals to stuff the Democrat ballot box, or do destroy the country, then it seems obvious that those people likely could not reasonably answer my questions. When the smart people are leaving, and the poor and the drug addicts and the traffickers are invading, what does that tell a sensible person?
True… where I live, restaurants are empty. People stay at home to get pissed and eat shit supermarket food
Lol cooking at home is better for you.
Home made soup is the best.
This chick probably doesn't know how to cook
If your supermarket sells shit food, They'd be out of business . It 's prepared bad buy shit cookers at home. 😂
You think "restaurant" food is better than what you buy and cook yourself? Quite a mentality you've got there.
Restaurants cost over 3x the cost of groceries, for a lesser quality of food, that has been spit on by who knows who.
A guy stated that he just got back from Alaska where he paid 60 dollars for 2 cheeseburgers. Whew!
Even with a 6 figure income, my wife and I eat out less than once a month. Everything is way too expensive and service has completely gone under.
We don't eat out at all anymore. When it was affordable it was still a luxury and we seldom ate out but now that things are too expensive, we just quit restaurants altogether. Pizza was a sore point for me, I love pizza more than anyone I know and the cheapest local pizzeria sells a large 2 topping pizza for $28.25 after taxes so I would seldom order a pizza even though I'd love to eat pizza all the time. That hurt. What solved the problem was a pizza stone. My missus went out and bought one for about $30 and it makes a pizza as good or better than commercial for about 5 bucks. The missus makes the dough and I do the assembly work and now I can afford to have delicious commercial quality pizza anytime I want and I just love it. I also love that I can put on too much pepperoni and cheese and mushrooms and not get charged a lot extra for it. If you love pizza, I'd absolutely recommend a pizza stone, they are freakin' awesome and will save you tons of money.
Making pizza at home is so much better! And it cost so little so much less!
Try the pizza PIZZAZ its a pizza rotisserie with a bottom and top heating element works great.
1. People got used to cooking at home during the pandemic.
2. Going out to eat has gotten more expensive.
…so, people eat out less.
It all pretty much began a couple decades ago when factory jobs disappeared. Often the only factory in a small town that had no other opportunities.
Prices to high !!
$10 for a burger
That's at fast food only
@@GOTravelhannel That's Everywhere
Education too low, OTOH.
@@KingfishStevens-di9ji: Ever hear of making your own? Wake up.
@@rogergeyer9851 have you bought any groceries lately? And like you paid for them out of your paycheck? It's $20 for two small steaks at Walmart, and I'll guarantee I cook more than you do, now back to sleep.
A lot restaurants have been folding I work for a restaurant supply company and we have been having a lot less customers.
Most have been having trouble for over 18 years, how could anyone be surprised?
Americans need to do home cooked meals rather than rely on unhealthy takeaways.
A pre 1920s world?
My son will pick up sandwiches, burgers, pizza but does cook quite a bit. I grow a little food and cook as well. We love our coffee and as always we make our own. Fresh fruit and veggies are another thing we love. Prices are reasonable. Soup is always good as well. I am making Spanish rice with bell peppers and onions. We split a pound of ground beef so we get two meals. We do not buy clothing because of the prices. I will go to our 2nd hand shops. A lot of gems in those stores.
Let me know where you are and next time you cook supper like that, I'll bring over dessert. Lol
For decades I bought flannel shirts for a quarter (or up to a dollar for really nice ones) at garage sales while new ones cost $15 to $30.
Just a little effort can often save a LOT of money.
There are two many restaurants and obesity is getting out of control. Why dont you rather dine in on more fruit and veg and it is healthier and good for climate change.
The price of restaurants are so outrageous I’m boycotting them.I refuse to spend 45-60 dollars for a regular lunch. No way, you lost a customer
It’s “greedflation”. Arbitrarily raise prices, shrink portions, and continue to pay useless out of touch CEO’s multimillion dollar salaries. They brought it on themselves.
People are realizing the true cost of voting Democrat
vote red or b dead
Republicans = Democrats. That's why it's called the UNIPARTY... only slight cultural differences between the two flavors but they're identical in foreign policy and economics that serve only the rich donors.
Including Republicans voted for approval- example Aid to Ukraine
It's late stage capitalism working as intended. Doesn't matter who is the leader.
Strange I thought republicans believe if they didn’t raise the minimum wage then price wouldn’t go up. Instead prices have gone up but salaries have not.
The only restaurants that will survive are the ones that didn’t jack up their prices. And you will notice those places are still full of customers…
Most young Americans wont eat out..they prefer to cook at home. They've learned they can cook something much healthier and cheaper right in the comfort of their own homes. I for one am tired of paying top dollar for garbage restaurant food!
It's ALL POSION! How many would eat at a restaurant knowing it WAS healthy?
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Considering the current economic situation, my main concern is how can we generate more revenue? We cannot afford to see our people's savings crumble into dust
I combat the negatives effect of inflthinkation, it's a good idea to diversify your portfolio across different asset classes, since this can help protect your portfolio against inflation.
I've heard testimonies of people accruing huge return during recessions.
That's awesome I know nothing about investment and I'm keen on getting started. What are the strategy?
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Now that I’m retired I don’t eat much fast food. The only time we go to restaurants is for a special occasion.
It's no surprise as most people can't even afford to purchase food from the supermarket's let alone dine out in America, unfortunately 😢
I made crock pot chicken at home that lasted us three days, I made it for $15. Lot cheaper than going to McDonalds.
and much better tasting along with being healthier. good on you, i like crock pot meals as well.
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Here in Belgium all the restaurants are packed, weird thing as economy is not fantastic and inflation increased a lot these last years.
BUT even though the restaurants are full, we see more and more of them shutting down because of very low margins and lack of personnel.
Oh yeah we definitely can’t live without styro-food. 😂
Prices will never go down
They will when the government cuts back the snap program, rental assistance and other freebies and kicks all the fraudsters off of disability SSI.
Yes we will see the 50$ Pepsi like in "Back to the Future" smfh
Des Monies is a blue city. Like all of these nut-so cities, it's collapsing. I went to a Mexican restaurant today under 21.00 for 2 full dinners in Northwest Missouri. Prices are dropping here. Interesting report of the big chain restaurants. Looks like I'll check out McDonald's if it goes nationwide 5.00 meals. Thanks for heads-up. Another unlimited shrimp meal kinda deal. Lol