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As someone with a family with young kids, it makes even less sense. Kids will order chicken nuggets, mac and cheese, or hotdogs or something, which are expensive at restaurants (>$5 usually), cheap at home (like $2), and easy to make (~10 min)

It literally takes longer to order than to cook IMO. For each of those meals, here's the process:

Prep for cooking - about the same time as entering an order, less if kids get to pick drinks and sides
Wait
Finish (add sauce, mix, etc) - about the same as unpacking and distributing the doordash stuff

And it costs less than half as much. We keep easy meals in the freezer if it has been one of those days and we need food to be ready in 15-20 min. I made orange chicken tonight, and with cooking rice in the rice cooker, active time was 5 min (wash rice, preheat oven, prep cooking sheet), and we had food about 25 min after starting. Total cost to feed 3 kids and 1 adult (SO was out) was ~$10. If I ordered the same thing, it would've been $30 if I picked up or $40-50 delivered. Oh, and no fighting about sodas, we just had water.

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Buy bread and deli meat. In fact, rice & beans.

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I read some article about how subway franchise owners HATED $5 footlong because it was making them go broke. You could tell too, if you went in there by how aggressively they pushed the cookie on you.

Just the sandwich? You don’t want a cookie? Come on buy a cookie! How about a soda?

SiblingNoah

$9.79 here in CA.

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We have gotten on those cook at home flour tortillas and refried beans. Great meal.

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I made apple pie from scratch last weekend for the first time. Best feeling ever.

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Going to the restaurant and back is the same distance for you as it is for the driver going from the restaurant and back.

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For sit down restaurants, that's truly bizarre. Why would I pay $3.50 for a small glass of soda that's half full of ice unless I'm going to pound 3 of them?

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That only applies if they live at your house, and only deliver to you for thier entire shift, otherwise they have dead space to cover as part of being able to do delivery between other customers, restaurants and going home. That makes it not the same.

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You can't keep a couple of cans of stew in the house?

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Stew doesn’t hit like pizza when I’m drunk

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They're franchised and every single one in a 50 mile radius is this priced.

But also, everything is just way more expensive in my city. $15-20 for a lunch is average.

Carl

My subway was generous, and wrapped up a piece of their food safety glove with my sandwich. They wouldn't refund me, so I decided to be generous as well, and not ever go back to any locations.

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It primarily requires planning your meals ahead. If you don't mind left overs it's even easier. If you eat meat, properly portioning it and freezing the excess simplifies it. Planning multiple meals a week that use the same or similar ingredients saves a bunch and prevents waste.

Pika

it's 3.50 for a small where you are? holy cow, it's roughly like $1 or $2 here for a normal tall glass. The only place that's really up there in price for soft drinks are fast food establishments like McD which have around 3$ for a large.

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If you run out of people to judge, remember: you can always judge the destitute!

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I can afford it but refuse to use those services. They inflate the menu prices, add fees. I'm ok with tipping but not the rest of that.

Same!

I grew up poor and had to stretch every dollar. I'm a highly paid engineer now and I still look at a $10 delivery fee with disgust.

And do people not realize that on Doordash, they charge $1-3 more per item? So your $12 pho bowl is $15 on Doordash.

Price discrimination ,how they treat their contractors, and contractors eating your food, fuck that noise.

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I know how to cook, but it's hard with 2 kids, and we both work A LOT all week. Weekends we are almost always busy as well, so meal prep and cooking most days is hard. I try to do simple stuff, but it's hard, and I know I can't be the only one. Plus, I consider this guy lucky since let me check my bank account right now, and oh, it's currently negative $300 until next friday... life is super hard these days, do what you can...

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Sorry for the confusion, I was referring to restaurants with table service, where you buy the 1 size of soda and it comes in a glass. The small part was my personal judgement. But yeah, Seattle's expensive.

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You don't keep flour, yeast, olive oil, canned tomatoes, cheese and toppings?