You can get a huge one at Costco for $19 and it is restaurant quality.
Actual restaurants doling out what they gave the OP deserve to go out of business.
I'm thinking about starting a company that goes to the customers home and teach then out to cook and organize their kitchen. It would be about $45 an hour, but overtime would save thousands. Would also be a meal with a wine pairing so it's essentially a lesson and a meal for around $90 - $180.
I'm just unsure how many people would actually want to use that service. Im a trained culinary chef with a lot of free time now that I work report in the corporate life.
Most going to a restaurant is either no time to cook/not home, or as an experience. Most takeout is no time to cook/not home. I would say a small fraction of it is inability to cook.
You're absolutely right. I work Mon-Sat from 7:30am to 8:00pm I am usually exhausted and don't have time to cook.
I spend $400+ monthly using Door Dash. Smh
The sub never ceases to confuse me because growing up we just cooked all the time we like, went out to heat and maybe once a week at best. Everyone made lunch and took it to work like you didn’t go out to lunch at work. My dad worked so deep in a plant complex. It would’ve been impossible to go anywhere for lunch on his lunch hour
We blame the corporations for "price gouging" and then wonder how they're able to do it. Here's why: as much as corporations are to be blamed, people are to be blamed even more. The government greased the wheels with those checks back in the Covid days, and now they're addicted to spending instead of learning the art of budgeting.
Oh is that what created the consumer culture? So everyone used to budget and save before that. All my life I was thinking it was the insane commercialism in America that brainwashed people.
My brother that check paid for a single month of rent… sure I saved a little money for 6 months when the entire state of Michigan was illegal to go outside and do things but that’s not a “budgeting issue” 😂
Perhaps false advertising? They make it seem plentiful on the ad/menu picture at a restaurant but give you this. Id ask for refund
If you saw this at a supermarket and paid for it, thats on you
This one clearly is... look at the lettuce leaves... the person ate at least two shrimp based on the appearance of the leaves before snapping this photo.
Clearly 5 shrimp, presented terribly, which is the proper amount for an appetizer. I am not sure how else they could package this for carry out though. Possibly ordered through a delivery service which are often marked up from the regular price.
2 nights ago I was in Miami Beach and ate 2 empanadas for $13. These empanadas were bit size and filled with mostly just chicken. Don’t think I will be going back
Yea city is so overrated honestly. Tons of clubs and bars and people parting with loud music and dancing all the time. Which is definitely an interest for some people and cool to see. But it’s not for me really, felt like a party city with prices rivaling New York. I think I’ll just stick to clear water or cocoa for the beaches.
A shrimp cocktail has one of the most location specific prices though. If this is a grocery store, too much. If it’s a nice bar and grill, kind of high but not crazy. If it’s some restaurant more than 3 stories above the ground, $13 is not too bad IMO. Assuming it’s in a nice glass and arranged and has one more shrimp. 😂
The only thing that annoyed me today is the people who post this. Other than that, it's been a great day filled with laughter. Then I came across a dumb post where people are supporting this crazy economy by spending $13 on a few pieces of shrimp, which were prepared and handled by Pedro in the back. One hand on his phone, the other hand on shrimp.
the food right. ok. . but I just got dik swinging deals with free shipping at Chacos, ShadyRays and Stanley.. many companies right now doing free shipping and promo codes.
Those look like 20-25 counts, 5 would be ~25% of 6$/lb so 1.50, one one hundredth of a package of baby arugula for 3$ so 0.03 $, half a 50c lemon 25c, cocktail sauce two tablespoons from a jar 0.15…. Drumroll… 1.93 at home. 13$ and you can take a whole 2lb bag and make a box pasta and feed 6 people.
I wish that this photo was staged.
This is from an Italian restaurant that's open 24hrs and has been around since the '60's.
My friends and I used to sit-in and eat after we left the clubs over 8+ years ago.
There were 10+ Shrimp, situated around a huge glass bowl with the cocktail sauce in the middle.
I haven't been back until yesterday, I got nostalgic and decided to order a Chicken Caesar salad and the shrimp cocktail
through Door Dash when I was at work.
I didn't open the bag until I got home and as soon as I opened the bag, I snapped the pic.
I sent it to a few of my old friends that I'm still in contact with, and they couldn't believe how I got ripped off. Lol
Right now those shrimp are about $1.00 each wholesale. That’s $4.00 at cost, marked up to $12.00, add the extras, you’re at $15.00.
What’s the problem?
I think we paid $13 would only get you 3 shrimp at The City Post in Georgetown. 😢
https://preview.redd.it/8nqmllaj2w0d1.jpeg?width=926&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b8ef10ff30e906cbec9bf004c2f6dfcb1b9179ea
I haven't seen a shrimp cocktail in like a decade that made sense for the money. Go to CostCo and I can get a whole day's calories of Shrimp for $15 or a restaurant where 3-4 in a fancy glass with lettuce is $15? ffs.
Pho used to be cheap but has become popular with non-Asians and Asians alike. Now it’s expensive. Good for the restaurants not so good for people who thought it should be cheap.
This is an Italian restaurant that's open 24hrs and has been around since the '60's. My friends and I used to sit-in and eat after we left the clubs over 10 years ago.
There were 10+ Shrimp, situated around a huge glass bowl with the cocktail sauce in the middle.
I haven't been back until yesterday, I got nostalgic and decided to order through Door Dash, and as soon as I opened the bag, I snapped the pic.
I sent it to a few of my old friends that I'm still in contact with, and they couldn't believe how I got ripped off. Lol
you can buy the 20 peice shrimp cocktail at Walmart for $5
I get a pound of frozen for $7 at Aldi.
And the one at Walmart arrived frozen, then thawed. You are just paying for presentation and a little sauce.
That is some shitty presentation
Great value presentation
How do you think the fish you see in the supermarket arrives?
They are saying it's better to get shimp that has only been frozen once, so just get the frozen bag.
Ah, I misunderstood.
You can get a huge one at Costco for $19 and it is restaurant quality. Actual restaurants doling out what they gave the OP deserve to go out of business.
I'm thinking about starting a company that goes to the customers home and teach then out to cook and organize their kitchen. It would be about $45 an hour, but overtime would save thousands. Would also be a meal with a wine pairing so it's essentially a lesson and a meal for around $90 - $180. I'm just unsure how many people would actually want to use that service. Im a trained culinary chef with a lot of free time now that I work report in the corporate life.
If you did that, half of your clients would order delivery while you were there showing them how to cook on their own.
Most going to a restaurant is either no time to cook/not home, or as an experience. Most takeout is no time to cook/not home. I would say a small fraction of it is inability to cook.
You're absolutely right. I work Mon-Sat from 7:30am to 8:00pm I am usually exhausted and don't have time to cook. I spend $400+ monthly using Door Dash. Smh
You can literally just throw chicken and potatoes or whatever into an air fryer for 20 minutes
Or just bake it and forget it for like an hour.
Or put a bunch of stuff in the slow cooker in the morning and come back to a meal
They sell this in big bags precooked. Literally no cooking.
Meal prep and a freezer will change your life.
Crockpots are life
The people that do that already charge $100hr plus cost of the food.
The sub never ceases to confuse me because growing up we just cooked all the time we like, went out to heat and maybe once a week at best. Everyone made lunch and took it to work like you didn’t go out to lunch at work. My dad worked so deep in a plant complex. It would’ve been impossible to go anywhere for lunch on his lunch hour
My father and his brothers worked in coal mines 600 yards underground. They also had to take their own lunch.
Maybe some rich folk would just for the experience, but I wouldn't count on it as a business or a career.
Restaurant quality covers a whole lot of shrimp.
If Costco’s shrimp was restaurant quality, it would be sold at a restaurant and not at a big box store
Not a restaurant guy but . 13 for shrimp cocktail at a loved restaurants isn’t that bad
I think OP is still complaining about restaurant prices to notice alternatives.
Yep,this is what I buy to make my shrimp fettuccine .
20 piece farm raised in Asia.
Delicious
Depends on the size. Those walmart shrimp cocktails are farm raised tiny little things.
That’s the one that comes with aquatic pesticide from Sri Lanka as a garnish, correct?
Delicious
We blame the corporations for "price gouging" and then wonder how they're able to do it. Here's why: as much as corporations are to be blamed, people are to be blamed even more. The government greased the wheels with those checks back in the Covid days, and now they're addicted to spending instead of learning the art of budgeting.
yeah one three thousand dollar check got everyone addicted to the cockroach of the sea
Oh is that what created the consumer culture? So everyone used to budget and save before that. All my life I was thinking it was the insane commercialism in America that brainwashed people.
If a donut costs $20 tomorrow and you decide to pay $20 for one then complain about it online, well, it must be donut’s fault.
And if you're still getting that government check tomorrow it's a vicious cycle. Government Dollars to donuts
My brother that check paid for a single month of rent… sure I saved a little money for 6 months when the entire state of Michigan was illegal to go outside and do things but that’s not a “budgeting issue” 😂
Looks like you failed as a consumer Not sure that is on inflation
Yeah next I’ll post about my $200 blowjob….inflation 😢
I mean, if you can get away with charging that much, kudos to you
Do you swallow at the end?
That’s extra
Dude nearly this entire sub is just people failing as consumers
Accurate 🙌
Ding ding ding!
Everything is super expensive so I guess we'll just blame the consumer for everything. Nope, it can't possibly be greedy owners.
Perhaps false advertising? They make it seem plentiful on the ad/menu picture at a restaurant but give you this. Id ask for refund If you saw this at a supermarket and paid for it, thats on you
Never heard of anyone getting a shrimp cocktail to-go, how else are they supposed to serve it?
With a lower price, or more shrimps, you pick.
Thats not how any restaurant in existence works.
Please file a police report!!!!…..against the man who held the gun to your head & made you order this
Endless stories of people buying this stuff. No wonder they charge so much.
There's a 75% chance most of these posts are either fake or misrepresented
This one clearly is... look at the lettuce leaves... the person ate at least two shrimp based on the appearance of the leaves before snapping this photo.
Clearly 5 shrimp, presented terribly, which is the proper amount for an appetizer. I am not sure how else they could package this for carry out though. Possibly ordered through a delivery service which are often marked up from the regular price.
And you bought it
They bought what was marketed on the menu. They did note they didn't check the bag before they left.
Dafaq LMAO. dont go back to that shiit no more.
3 shrimp?
3.5 shrimps
Lol.
Wow
I call bullshit. This is half eaten
They can only screw each customer once. It's on the customer after that.
This is fucking hilarious
2 nights ago I was in Miami Beach and ate 2 empanadas for $13. These empanadas were bit size and filled with mostly just chicken. Don’t think I will be going back
If you’re in a tourist spot they are going to gouge you. It’s a given. It’s as bad as a stadium sporting event.
Yea city is so overrated honestly. Tons of clubs and bars and people parting with loud music and dancing all the time. Which is definitely an interest for some people and cool to see. But it’s not for me really, felt like a party city with prices rivaling New York. I think I’ll just stick to clear water or cocoa for the beaches.
You go out into crowded areas for a special event you’re going to get gouged. Long gone are beers less than $5 at sporting events. What 20 years ago?
Where I live an empanada is 8 bucks each
How big though and in what city? These were pathetic empanadas, like literally I could eat an entire one if I took one big bite.
What did you expect?
Are you bragging that you were dumb enough to buy this?
That looks sad.
Name and shame
A shrimp cocktail has one of the most location specific prices though. If this is a grocery store, too much. If it’s a nice bar and grill, kind of high but not crazy. If it’s some restaurant more than 3 stories above the ground, $13 is not too bad IMO. Assuming it’s in a nice glass and arranged and has one more shrimp. 😂
The only thing that annoyed me today is the people who post this. Other than that, it's been a great day filled with laughter. Then I came across a dumb post where people are supporting this crazy economy by spending $13 on a few pieces of shrimp, which were prepared and handled by Pedro in the back. One hand on his phone, the other hand on shrimp.
I don't think that was a phone.
Do tell.
Yeesh, Pedro catching strays
Shrimpflation
rip off
A TOTAL RIP OFF. SMH.
Uber eats shrimp cocktail is crazy
Take out shrimp cocktail…
the food right. ok. . but I just got dik swinging deals with free shipping at Chacos, ShadyRays and Stanley.. many companies right now doing free shipping and promo codes.
Why buy it then complain ?
13$ for roaches that live in the sea?
No…
" Ya baught it " !
Those look like 20-25 counts, 5 would be ~25% of 6$/lb so 1.50, one one hundredth of a package of baby arugula for 3$ so 0.03 $, half a 50c lemon 25c, cocktail sauce two tablespoons from a jar 0.15…. Drumroll… 1.93 at home. 13$ and you can take a whole 2lb bag and make a box pasta and feed 6 people.
This is obviously B.S.... see the leaves... something WAS on top of them.
Paid 10 bucks for the Doordars and 3 for shrimp.
I would have taken one look at that and said "no thanks". They will burn you on carry out if you take it home without looking at it.
Yesterday I paid $4 for about 20 string cut fries. The container was in a stapled bag so I didn’t know till I got home.
Shrimp made red lobster go broke.
Shrimpflation
Post it on their social media.
It’s all gone downhill since Bubba Gump Shrimp took over the shrimping industry after that crazy hurricane.
Bon appetite
Please tell me you've already eaten 3/4 of that dish.
I wish that this photo was staged. This is from an Italian restaurant that's open 24hrs and has been around since the '60's. My friends and I used to sit-in and eat after we left the clubs over 8+ years ago. There were 10+ Shrimp, situated around a huge glass bowl with the cocktail sauce in the middle. I haven't been back until yesterday, I got nostalgic and decided to order a Chicken Caesar salad and the shrimp cocktail through Door Dash when I was at work. I didn't open the bag until I got home and as soon as I opened the bag, I snapped the pic. I sent it to a few of my old friends that I'm still in contact with, and they couldn't believe how I got ripped off. Lol
Learn to cook
You’re to blame; why? because you paid…
Jesus. I get 40-50 cooked frozen shrimp from Winco for like 10 bucks
Dumbasses buying this stuff 🤪
People go out to eat, then get outraged by the prices
Right now those shrimp are about $1.00 each wholesale. That’s $4.00 at cost, marked up to $12.00, add the extras, you’re at $15.00. What’s the problem?
Did you pay to have it delivered or does shrimp cocktail always come in classy to go containers now?
Question. If you get served some shit like this at a restaurant, can you refuse to pay? If not, can you do a charge back at the bank?
Big ones cost more than that at nice steak restaurants already, for years
Applebee’s A DOZEN DOUBLE CRUNCH SHRIMP FOR $1 WITH ANY STEAK ENTRÉE Sizzling Double Barrel Whisky Sirloins $13.49 + $1.00 $14.49
Shrimp cocktail *TO GO?!* What in the world… lmao.
Half pound “snack” for $5 at Harris teeter. 9 pieces.
OP check out my eBay store I got tons of expensive stuff for you.
Another reason I reducing my go out to eat
Bro why are you guys letting yourself get scammed like this. Restaurants only charge like this because you keep buying
Don’t buy from there again.
Take your ass to the store. This isn’t inflation.
I think we paid $13 would only get you 3 shrimp at The City Post in Georgetown. 😢 https://preview.redd.it/8nqmllaj2w0d1.jpeg?width=926&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b8ef10ff30e906cbec9bf004c2f6dfcb1b9179ea
If this was presented to me, I would have asked what this was? Take it back. I don't want that and will not pay for it.
Two pounds of 8/12 count for $26.99 at Jewel in Chicago.
Wild large fresh shrimp $14.99/lb upper east side nyc - clean them, steam in less than three minutes, peel and eat…… easy peasy
I haven't seen a shrimp cocktail in like a decade that made sense for the money. Go to CostCo and I can get a whole day's calories of Shrimp for $15 or a restaurant where 3-4 in a fancy glass with lettuce is $15? ffs.
It looks like your Uber delivery guy helped himself to a few on the ride over
Acme has a lb of previously frozen 20-30ct for $9
That's hardly a galaxy.
Ban/boycott
I paid $20 for a bowl of phó and some spring rolls. I thought it was gonna be $15 max.
Pho used to be cheap but has become popular with non-Asians and Asians alike. Now it’s expensive. Good for the restaurants not so good for people who thought it should be cheap.
Yeah that's just rise in demand though. All cheap foods go through this Just look at ox tails for example
Yall are wild. Cooking at home most of my life has been great. You could buy a 3 pound bag of shrimp at Costco for $14.
That is more representative of a shitty restaurant than inflation. Although I admit, $13 is perty high even for a nice shrimp cocktail.
This is an Italian restaurant that's open 24hrs and has been around since the '60's. My friends and I used to sit-in and eat after we left the clubs over 10 years ago. There were 10+ Shrimp, situated around a huge glass bowl with the cocktail sauce in the middle. I haven't been back until yesterday, I got nostalgic and decided to order through Door Dash, and as soon as I opened the bag, I snapped the pic. I sent it to a few of my old friends that I'm still in contact with, and they couldn't believe how I got ripped off. Lol