Restaurants and recession

I wanted to read the answers about "eating out" because my kids and I miss it. I see by the answers that most everyone is in the same boat as us, eating out was the FIRST luxury for my family that had to go. I have always cooked for my children, but as another person said, I can barely put food on the table, AT ALL. So, I've had to really go old school to get by. Old school meaning...buy a 10 lb. bag of potato's........Potato soup one night......fried potato's and spam (growing up) I've replaced the spam with Eckrich smoked sausage ($2.50), whatever meat is on sale with mashed potato's and use left over mashed potato's the next night for potato patties with another meat on sale.  I was glad to see that my family and I WEREN'T  the only ones struggling so horribly.  Everyones answers were so NORMAL and APPROPRIATE and helpful.........THEN ALL OF SUDDEN BAM!!!!!!!!   or should I say bamonbama...........WOW, what a nut.....YOU tell the manager about your food.......I can see you in a restaurant, complaining, complaining MORE, in hopes of getting your food complimentary....STAY AT HOME AND COOK YOUR OWN FOOD.....Whether we were in these hard times or not, YOU would be complaining, I'm sure about everything.......cook your own food and stay at home.....DON'T SUPPORT THE RESTAURANTS, I'M POSITIVE NO ONE WANTS YOU IN THERE....You can tell your unstable because you state "the restaurants" service has gotten so poor, unfriendly, and don't care if your food is good....You've lumped ALL RESTAURANTS together in one category......A majority of high school and struggling college students work at those restaurants and your pointing blame at the wrong people "the restaurants" for poor service.....it's all of your extended family working in those restaurants that were raised to be CONSTANT COMPLAINERS, life is not fair and nothing is ever good enough.  In my little town, at Cotton Patch, T.G.I.F.'s, Applebees, Sonic, Taco Bueno...should I go on..........ALL, not only care about the customer, but also about the quality of food, customer service, they are fast, and bend over backwards to be friendly everyone, even jerks like you. MOVE TO VEGAS and work for the Tropicana....better yet........move to Iraq, then you could complain.

I ate last year at the Tropicana and had a Teriyaki bowl that cost me a grand.

People like you should eat at home, because all you have done is bitch.

DKS:

Thank You, You said what I should have.

GaJarHead,

I also thank you for backing me up. I'm so happy to see intelligent people on the website.

Most single people tend out a lot because it's easier than cooking for one. My norm was a weekly lunch date, dinner out 3-4 times per week, and Chinse food twice a week on the nights I work. I have now cut back to lunch 2X a month, 2 dinners a week (one expensive and one cheap) and Chinese once a week. Now that some restaurants are dropping prices and offering specials, I hope I'll be able to eat out more often.

Yes we dont go out maybe every 2 or 3 months cannot afford it on a retired income.

yes

No, not at all.  We eat out at least two times per week.