Thanks for the tip, Business Insider!

She has another article about spending $460 on a dinner. Does shilling for chain restaurants pay that well?

https://www.businessinsider.com/review-is-the-capital-grille-worth-it-for-family-2024-2

A filet mignon is one of my 13-year-old daughter's favorite dinners, so she was thrilled to find one on the menu.
At $58, it was about the same price as my steak entrée. She ate nearly all of it, only taking a little home as leftovers.
The price of one of her kid's meals costs more than an average restaurant meal for my family
- You could buy the filet from a grocery store, grill it at home, and feed the whole family for that same price PLUS there's a very good chance it'll taste better.
That shit doesn't even look good. $460 could literally get you a Michelin star tasting menu dinner for two.
- I once went on a date to a place that had a Michelin star and it wasn't that expensive. I think I made it out under $70.

Terri Peters lives in Florida

Florida minimum wage: $12

$165 meal ÷ $12/hr = 13.75 hours worked to pay for one family meal (pretax)

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- Let's just be more honest: if you're the sole breadwinner for a family of four and making $12 an hour, the only thing on the menu is starvation. Meat is unthinkable.

literally just an ad for outback

if your 13 year old declares filet mignon is their favorite dish, you have fucked up your child.

My in laws have a kid way younger than the others, he gets the most expensive stuff off the menu everywhere they go, literally lobster and filet mignon and shit. Little weirdo goes on about wanting a Lamborghini and a Tesla. It's so wild to see.
filet mignon seems like a boomer food to me
it's like mowing the lawn excessively (also a boomer habit), you pay a lot and spend a lot of effort for nothing. It's the chicken breast of the cow.
- Yeah, filet mignon is only expensive because it's a super small cut, not because its the best.

I could cook you up some steaks, french fries, and a bottle of cheap wine for under $20 lady

But can you turn an onion into a 1320 calorie monstrosity?
- anything's possible with the power of a deep fryer
- god those things are good, i wish there was a different place that did them *near me that i knew abt
Marry me
- Sorry bub I'm already married happily to my cat

I will never understand the appeal of Outback

It was literally made by a couple rich dudes from California to ride the back of the Crocodile Dundee craze

outback is hard carried by the bloomin onion. i don't think there's any other reason to go
- And a blooming onion isn't hard to make at home at all.
- Their bread is pretty good, but I don't ever actually eat out anyway, so it's not good enough to make an exception. Restaurants are not my idea of fun.
- It's called a fuckin onion there I think

I'm legitimately trying to figure out how anyone could willingly pay nearly $60 for a single portion of filet mignon from fucking Outback. I've gone to nice steakhouses for dates that charged less than that.

I think the $60 filet was at capital grille (lol). The filet at outback looks like it's $26 on the receipt in the screenshot. Even then that seems pricey.
- I don't eat meat, but when I did twenty years ago, filet mignon was like $25 the three times I got it. That was at restaurants that were better than outback.

That's like three weeks of groceries for my wife and I, but whatever

American journalism at its finest.

Steak is literally one of the easiest things to cook. You can easily buy a nice USDA prime steak from a local butcher, pay 25% the cost, and cook it in 20-30 minutes. If you're fancy, and it's a thick cut, dry brine it overnight with salt, and then sous vide or bake in oven at like 250, then finish by searing in a hot pan with butter (or ghee) that was infused with rosemary and crushed garlic. Still stupid easy to do.

I only go out to eat for things that are a pain to make, like many Indian dishes.

I only go out to eat for things that are a pain to make, like many Indian dishes.
I posted this take on reddit once and got hit with frothing mayo
Only things I go out for are certain Indian dishes, the forbidden noodle of Gansu, and pizza
and cook it in 20-30 minutes
Steak takes around 10 minutes to cook

That's actually not good, I got a similar spread from an actually nice local restaurant for about $20 less the other day. Why would I spend that much at a chain?

It costs big money to maintain that fake Aussie veneer
- Does it even count if they don't say "mate"?
- Aussie culture feels incredibly forced. It feels like there's nothing backing it up except a slightly different british accent, venomous animals, and Steve Irwin (technically falls into both of those categories but he was a pretty swell fella)

Why are you posting ads to hexbear

yes $3.49 for a can of coke is an amazing deal

That's how much McDonald's charges for small fries in the US
- christ.. used to be $1

If I"m paying that much at a restaurant, I'm going to a good place.

Uncle Xi cooks up HUMONGOUS bowl of noodles and feeds entirety of Hunnan province for just 10 yuan

The sino-soviet split happened because Stalin tried to eat Maos big bowl of noodles with his big spoon
- All he asked for was one spoonful!

That's close to what you'd have to pay at a shitty steakhouse here in my Nordic workers' welfare paradise. Wasn't the social contract of America that you don't get healthcare or a union or a living wage or safety or culture or education or anything but at least the treats are cheap?

The treats here are much more expensive

Outback is the hardee's of steakhouses

"How dare you impugn our journalistic integrity?! This is a review by a professional to help people learn about obscure things like ubiquitous chain restaurants and steak! It is certainly not, 'an advertisement so shamelessly blatant that uBlock should prevent me from seeing it'!"

$37.5/ea for badly cooked steaks and a deep fried onion.

if you think that's good, me and my owner went to burger king and ate a whole meal for only $62!!!!

okay i know now how they become so completely fine with this shitshow they live in

they've completely and utterly deluded themselves into thinking its fucking sunshine and daisies

I don't hate Outback. I used to get steaks there from time to time. A seared steak cooked to proper temp is just gonna be good, so it's not like the meals were bad. But half the point of going to Outback was the low price for what you got. 41.25 per person and there's no point in going to a chain restaurant anymore

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