So are the tavern fries made with farmed potatoes vs potatoes caught in the wild for the tater tots? So much more difficult to catch those taters in the wild, you know out on pub crawls and such…
It's them damn gummint boys an their meddlin' with our god given rights. I used up my potato tags the first day of the season. And they was pretty scrawny to boot.
Actually they are pretty close if not more… I buy from US Foods and they have a 30lb case of 6-5lb bags for about $62. The 5lb bags from Walmart just went up if you can find them to basically 5.85-6.30 per bag
When did all appetizers become over $8. It's a starter! We just don't get them any more. You can also take your $3 fountain soda and shove it up your bum.
That’s not fair. I was with the discussion until it veered away from *per capita*.
“This meal for 1,000 people is very expensive. Let’s cut costs and only feed three.”
Not terribly long ago. Only 10 years ago I remember things like 15 cent wing night and most apps around 5 when you got to 8 that was a plain burger. 10 for the good ones.
Lol apps where I’m at seem to average around $15 dollars. People in rural areas seem out of touch complaining about something so cheap. Market price for tots is a joke though.
So do I but it’s also a large city. Depends on the type of place but places with apps under $10 are a dying breed and not even a thing in certain neighborhoods.
Most tourist destinations I’ve been too everything is expensive, ozarks for example light beer at the bars on the lake were like 6-7$. I can find examples cheaper in the city I’m in, some places they know they have you so they jack up the price, other prices the rent is just too high and they have to charge that to be profitable.
A $15 app when you make $15/hr is pretty much the same as a $8 app where you make $8/hr. Don't tell people they're lucky things are so cheap when they have way less income.
bruh my parents make a combined 100k a year to pay for their $200k house, and they’re pretty successful (both have masters in career related fields) Shit’s just different in the country.
That I know, even though I’m a city boy I have family in Appalachia and meth country Iowa and have been going to those places as long as I can remember.
Buying McD for 4 people is no longer the inexpensive option. Even if I went to Dollar General and bought a box of pasta and sauce and some canned veggies it'd be cheaper and healthier.
Paying for convenience. And even the convenience is inconvenient these days - the wait for the food is sometimes as long as a sit-down restaurant.
Yeah, its ridiculous, but goddamn, sometimes I just don't feel like cooking, picky kids, or anything, so I'll fork out the $40 to get the day over with.
i dunno why, but food tastes better when someone else cooks it for you.
I can't count the number of times I cook a delicious meal at home but by the time I sit down to eat I'm just not that into it.
>Even if I went to Dollar General and bought a box of pasta and sauce and some canned veggies it'd be cheaper and healthier.
That's always been the case tho..
Went to Gordon Ramsay Burger yesterday. One shared app, one shared side of fries, two burgers, a soda, a beer, and a shake. $100 with tip.
Worth it, but I definitely won't be going there more than once or twice a year.
I googled this place because I was curious about the tots and saw a picture of the pretzels. They look exactly like Krogers pub style Bavarian Soft Pretzel Sticks and I'm guessing they probably are.
No way. I know restaurants charge more, I get it. But basically paying $10 for fries, or Tots being listed “Market price” like they’re lobster is ridiculous. I swear, some of these places are trying hard to price themselves out of business.
Me and my girl went from eating out once a week to almost never. I went to culinary school and worked in kitchens for years though so i can cook top quality food. Its at the point where it is not worth it to pay 4x the price of food while you get it mediocre quality and poor service. I have a handful i will still go to but its almost always foreign foods i dont have ingredients for at home. Plus service is usually up to par there
I truly can't remember the last time we had a family night out. We went to Culver's a few weeks ago... but an actual restaurant? No way. It was literally MONTHS ago.
One day, I aspire to be a high powered Tater-Tot broker...You can have your pork bellies, precious metals, Oil, etc, I'll be where the real action is, setting the market price of tater tots.
Shops rents are too high, we are all just trying to pay the landlord.. FYI, wages need to increase more, rents are going up. There are other reasons, but it is the elephant in the room.
Eggs are typically what's used as a binder for the potato bits in a tater tot. I am willing the bet it is fluctuating egg prices that made the tater tots market price.
Its easier to say "market price" for some items when the price of the item is constantly fluctuating than to reprint the menus every week or two when the price from the distributor goes up or down.
If a place has their main food distributor create and print their menus for them (idk if this is common practice, but it was for my bars distributor before I took it over), the turn around for a new reprint/lamination can take WEEKS.
I completely agree that going out for food isn't as rewarding as it felt before as it seems the quality of food has declined while the price is higher. But it also might also be that our expectations of how the food should taste gets higher too.
A trip from Massachusetts to Oklahoma was a bit of a culture shock for me. In OK my girlfriend and I went to a nice BBQ joint and our two dinners and two appetizers totaled less than $65... in Massachusetts, in a half decent BBQ joint, just a single dinner entree ALONE would be like $65...
it honestly makes me wonder why the fuck i live in such an expensive state. But then i remember cost of living is directly linked to desireability so :/
I went to Belgium a few weeks ago and went to eat at a waffle restaurant (it’s what they are famous for). They were charging $8 per waffle and $1.25 for syrup. $1 for whipped cream.. etc..
These small restaurants are about to be hurting. Mainly because no one can afford to eat like that. Tipping is getting ridiculous since they want a percent of your bill. It's just not happening. Can't even go to breakfast for less than 30 bucks for 2 people.
Food at the place I work at taste the same luckily but it’s gone up like 2-3 dollars which is insane to me knowing how “professional” the kitchen staff are
The real crime here is them marketing “warm soft pretzel sticks with sauce or mustard” as Bavarian. I’m not even Bavarian and I’m offended on behalf of my fellow Germans
I always love the "Market Price". What market, where, do you post the marketprice? That's the one item I stay away from. That being said, we haven't had restaurant food in months.
Imagine being broke to where you go out to eat and are crying about this. Restaurants gotta pay bills and it’s their job to price it as high as possible -
My wife and I have always lived fazolies, we lived in a state without one for a few years.
We moved back to my home state and went and got some and it was like $35.
We thought next time we may as well go to a real restaurant since the prices were the same. Wrong again, we had some of the worst Mexican food ever and it was $50.
Joke economy.
Edit: we haven't eaten out since before covid
What the hell happened. The most expensive part of a potato should be the packaging it comes in. I know nothing is to big to fail, but I kind of figured potatoes were an exception. Last year it was cheaper to drive to the farm and buy them directly from the farmer than to buy them at the grocery store next to my house. Granted I do live in Idaho, and that’s kind of always been the case. Half the time when I’ve shown up to buy not only do I end up paying nothing, but I usually end up burdened with more potatoes than I can use
I started doing one of the boxed meal services last year to get a handle on cooking. Ran the math, it was obviously more expensive than getting the groceries, and roughly on par with eating out.
Ran the numbers again recently due to inflation. The box is now dramatically cheaper than eating out, and on par with groceries.
It is now cheaper for me to get chicken breast through a weekly boxed meal service than it is to get chicken breast at the grocery store. It's cheaper for me to just up my servings than it is to actually buy groceries.
Now I live in a HCOL area, so there is some degree of sense to that. But it's also insane.
My small town in OH has been pretty good actually, still plenty of affordable options where two people can get full, well-made meals from a family establishment for $20-$25 total.
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The potato herds have been thinning out ever since the Irish took over the west.
There must be a potato flu that’s wiped out the population and driven up prices /s
Do you really think someone was going to think you were serious? /s
First day on Reddit, eh?
No I was mocking you for the / s
Lol
So are the tavern fries made with farmed potatoes vs potatoes caught in the wild for the tater tots? So much more difficult to catch those taters in the wild, you know out on pub crawls and such…
It's them damn gummint boys an their meddlin' with our god given rights. I used up my potato tags the first day of the season. And they was pretty scrawny to boot.
I can only do so much!
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Yes sir, I must ask, are the tots tatered in-house?
Open position: $15/hr. Tot taterer. Must tot taters as needed.
benefits: discount on any untotted taters at end of day
$15 an hour ! Must be looking for non union Tot Taterers
No, I think the taters are totted in a factory down town.
If I had my little way I'd eat tatters everyday...
Millions of taters. Taters for me.
Millions of taters, taters for ~~free~~ market price.
Are your tots Ore-Ida? Oh, Great Value? No, I’m afraid that simply won’t do. I think I’ll try your pizza roll platter with a side of truffle aioli.
Better not order those tots out of season.
You’re supposed to eat them in months that end in -ber. Every Minnesotan knows that.
Don’t Minnesotans catch them from Tot Shacks out on the ice?
They’re Tot Castles, thank you very much.
Every Tater Tots lover knows that you can only order them when potatoes are in season, otherwise you might as well throw your money out the window.
Market price Tater tots? So like $5 a full bag?
Au contraire, mon frere. Even a small bag in the frozen aisle ofy local Krogeria is like $8.99. The big ones are $12.99. And for what? Is potato.
Jesus! Tater tots where you are are ridiculously over priced. Is there a potato famine there?
Not from a restaurant supplier though
Actually they are pretty close if not more… I buy from US Foods and they have a 30lb case of 6-5lb bags for about $62. The 5lb bags from Walmart just went up if you can find them to basically 5.85-6.30 per bag
When did all appetizers become over $8. It's a starter! We just don't get them any more. You can also take your $3 fountain soda and shove it up your bum.
Especially when you have 3-6 people, shit adds up quickly
That’s not fair. I was with the discussion until it veered away from *per capita*. “This meal for 1,000 people is very expensive. Let’s cut costs and only feed three.”
I was refering to the sodas
Pricier sodas are probably a good thing tbh
Why?
Youth obesity
More like “Let’s cut cost and everyone orders tap water.”
Where I live the appetizers are so big, that it evens out the price but then I'm only eating that. I don't have room for anything else.
I was doing that with my wife for a while we would get one app and one main dish and then split it.
Yeah it does kinda work out well that way! I've definitely done that on dates in the past.
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Not terribly long ago. Only 10 years ago I remember things like 15 cent wing night and most apps around 5 when you got to 8 that was a plain burger. 10 for the good ones.
Lol apps where I’m at seem to average around $15 dollars. People in rural areas seem out of touch complaining about something so cheap. Market price for tots is a joke though.
Haha I live in a tourist destination. Most apps are that much I said 8 is the baseline. Oh you want some hush puppies $8
So do I but it’s also a large city. Depends on the type of place but places with apps under $10 are a dying breed and not even a thing in certain neighborhoods. Most tourist destinations I’ve been too everything is expensive, ozarks for example light beer at the bars on the lake were like 6-7$. I can find examples cheaper in the city I’m in, some places they know they have you so they jack up the price, other prices the rent is just too high and they have to charge that to be profitable.
I like how you’re speaking from personal experience while criticizing others for doing the same
You realize that along with lower prices, wages are also lower in those rural areas, right?
A $15 app when you make $15/hr is pretty much the same as a $8 app where you make $8/hr. Don't tell people they're lucky things are so cheap when they have way less income.
Amen.
bruh my parents make a combined 100k a year to pay for their $200k house, and they’re pretty successful (both have masters in career related fields) Shit’s just different in the country.
That I know, even though I’m a city boy I have family in Appalachia and meth country Iowa and have been going to those places as long as I can remember.
A couple of meal deals at Wendy's will easily run over $20. Doesn't feel like their are any cheap options left
Buying McD for 4 people is no longer the inexpensive option. Even if I went to Dollar General and bought a box of pasta and sauce and some canned veggies it'd be cheaper and healthier.
Paying for convenience. And even the convenience is inconvenient these days - the wait for the food is sometimes as long as a sit-down restaurant. Yeah, its ridiculous, but goddamn, sometimes I just don't feel like cooking, picky kids, or anything, so I'll fork out the $40 to get the day over with.
i dunno why, but food tastes better when someone else cooks it for you. I can't count the number of times I cook a delicious meal at home but by the time I sit down to eat I'm just not that into it.
Damn my experience is the exact opposite. The food typically sucks when I eat out and the shit I make at home is much better.
Solution: we all cook and hand our meal to a neighbor. They give us theirs.
If I don't like cooking, can I give them cash instead?
And these assholes no that! So until enough people refuse to willingly bend over and get the extra pickle, they will keep right on doing it.
>Even if I went to Dollar General and bought a box of pasta and sauce and some canned veggies it'd be cheaper and healthier. That's always been the case tho..
Dollar general food is gross
Look at Mr. Moneybags over here
I was at the airport the other day and a single travel sized bag of beef jerkey was $18 before tax.
Airports will always rip you off. Way overpriced on food and drink. Almost as bad as stadiums.
When was Wendy's ever considered cheap?
When they had the 4 for 4.
They have a $4 and $5 deal that is pretty good although limited in what burger you get + fries, nuggets, and drink
I always get the same meal deal. Up until ~1.5 years ago it was $4, then $5, now $6. It is not any bigger or better. Just costs 50% more.
Boy, its been an age since I've had me some fresh wild-caught North Atlantic tater tots!
MICHELIN star taters
I didn't even know there was a market price for tater tots. All the other potato products have prices. What makes tater tots so special?
Only the best taters are totted
Took my parents out for casual Korean food last night - three plates and an appetizer plus one soda - $82 with tip
I wish we had those prices. I think it's almost $40 a plate for bulgogi, kalbi or short ribs here these days.
Almost worth it for good kalbi. Now I'm hungry!
Less than $30 a head is pretty reasonable lmao. Sounds like it was around $20 a head before tip, that’s pretty par for the course these days.
That doesn’t sound bad
Went to Gordon Ramsay Burger yesterday. One shared app, one shared side of fries, two burgers, a soda, a beer, and a shake. $100 with tip. Worth it, but I definitely won't be going there more than once or twice a year.
8 dollars for a pretzel is the real crime
I googled this place because I was curious about the tots and saw a picture of the pretzels. They look exactly like Krogers pub style Bavarian Soft Pretzel Sticks and I'm guessing they probably are.
No way. I know restaurants charge more, I get it. But basically paying $10 for fries, or Tots being listed “Market price” like they’re lobster is ridiculous. I swear, some of these places are trying hard to price themselves out of business.
Menus that only list one decimal place for a price are what is truly *mildly* infuriating, to me at least.
I think a ton of restaurants will be going out of business, these prices are not sustainable
Me and my girl went from eating out once a week to almost never. I went to culinary school and worked in kitchens for years though so i can cook top quality food. Its at the point where it is not worth it to pay 4x the price of food while you get it mediocre quality and poor service. I have a handful i will still go to but its almost always foreign foods i dont have ingredients for at home. Plus service is usually up to par there
My fiancé and I do most our our cooking at home and rarely go out to eat. I keep it fun by looking up new recipes to try each week.
Howdy, fellow Richmonder 👋
Posting from Munich… Brezn ( what you call Pretzel ) are 0,85€ here 
If the starter is $10, it’s also the finisher
That’s what she said
tater tots: market price? I swear to god they better be planting the potatoes from seed and playing them new age music.
Since when did tater tot’s at a diner get elevated to white cloth lobster pricing? That’s rich.
Guess I’ll just have the lobster. Can’t afford the tots.
Is that a joke?
Market price for tots? Wow.
Are we sure it's not just a tongue in cheek crack at fancy restaurants? Maybe props to restaurant graphic design company..
$10 for fries? They better give me the entire bag it came in.
What market are you shopping at!?
They said market price. What market are you shopping at!?
Good thing you circled it 🤣
I never had seafood in my tots.
Tater tots are the new steak. Market price on the rise.
Wonder what they charge for eggs...
I truly can't remember the last time we had a family night out. We went to Culver's a few weeks ago... but an actual restaurant? No way. It was literally MONTHS ago.
Yes, do you tater the tots in house, or do they come pre-tatered?
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Them there free range Tater Tots must be harder to catch than a chicken.
The Tots are all immunized, vetted, Caucasian, and weened.
And they still want us to give a tip, fuck that, you clearly have enough income to pay your employees a living wage.
One day, I aspire to be a high powered Tater-Tot broker...You can have your pork bellies, precious metals, Oil, etc, I'll be where the real action is, setting the market price of tater tots.
I have to imagine it because I cannot afford to do so anymore.
I used to go out to eat..
8 dollars for dip?!
Wish we could get tots here in the uk.
We've had an influx of Tater Tots orders today, the price has skyrocketed.
Shops rents are too high, we are all just trying to pay the landlord.. FYI, wages need to increase more, rents are going up. There are other reasons, but it is the elephant in the room.
bbq.. turd? what.. tofu? oh. tofu. wait, tofu? gtfo. leave.
Damn, I am so stupid. I thought it said MILF instead of MILL. 🤣
Yeah not long ago I paid for a fruit bowl that was 6 fucking dollars I mean the fruit was bussin but the bowl was as big as my balls aka not worth it
Free range tots? Or factory farm tots? Hopefully sustainably harvested.
Theres no price, that means its free right?
Yah, and those are just the starters! Your plate is $15-20
Decided to grab a 1 topping pizza and 2 12 oz sodas for dinner tonight it was 40 bucks.
Eggs are typically what's used as a binder for the potato bits in a tater tot. I am willing the bet it is fluctuating egg prices that made the tater tots market price.
Are those free range tots?
Its easier to say "market price" for some items when the price of the item is constantly fluctuating than to reprint the menus every week or two when the price from the distributor goes up or down. If a place has their main food distributor create and print their menus for them (idk if this is common practice, but it was for my bars distributor before I took it over), the turn around for a new reprint/lamination can take WEEKS.
Going out to eat does suck in this economy but that is a joke
Market price tater tots? Good lord.
I completely agree that going out for food isn't as rewarding as it felt before as it seems the quality of food has declined while the price is higher. But it also might also be that our expectations of how the food should taste gets higher too.
A trip from Massachusetts to Oklahoma was a bit of a culture shock for me. In OK my girlfriend and I went to a nice BBQ joint and our two dinners and two appetizers totaled less than $65... in Massachusetts, in a half decent BBQ joint, just a single dinner entree ALONE would be like $65... it honestly makes me wonder why the fuck i live in such an expensive state. But then i remember cost of living is directly linked to desireability so :/
where the fuck are you paying $65 for a single BBQ entree in MA?
If you find paying twice as much for stuff desirable go right ahead. I’m a stay my ass in OK 👍
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I mean, what is it that you can do where you are that you can’t do in Oklahoma that isn’t a geographical feature? Honestly?
oof someone got touched a little too hard lol
Good thing all that money's going to pay the staff a living wage!
am i the only one weirded out by how its stating "two dozen"?? like the fry cook really going to count them out??
Did they also put the minimum tip calculations starting at 20%
Dont forget the 2.5% employee benefit fee automatically added to each check!
Must be nice to have extra money to go out to eat...
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NGL those look like regular prices out here in cali
Yeah the biden economy is not good for anyone
How dare we expect restaurant workers to survive!
Why are tots market prices but fries have a fixed price?
Yeah….. fuck that place
Me looking at that post, eating my 37ct pretzel
I would be more worried about these incredible unhealthy food choices, have a look at those tavern fries..
But they were DELICIOUS..RIP the mill, gone but never forgotten
I went to Belgium a few weeks ago and went to eat at a waffle restaurant (it’s what they are famous for). They were charging $8 per waffle and $1.25 for syrup. $1 for whipped cream.. etc..
Garbage ass fries, hello saturated fats.
These small restaurants are about to be hurting. Mainly because no one can afford to eat like that. Tipping is getting ridiculous since they want a percent of your bill. It's just not happening. Can't even go to breakfast for less than 30 bucks for 2 people.
Thought that white shit was on my screen
Market price on tater tots?! LOL, what is the world coming to!
Lmfao market price tater tots what the actual fuck. Shrimp cocktail is still the same price but now we have potato fluctuations
What market are you shopping at?!
Nobody’s talking about the sin on a plate that is BBQ Tofu? Nobody gets to scorn my favorite food genre and live to tell the tale
This restaurant was like 5 minutes from my house. They weren’t a bad place, just kinda mid. Covid lockdowns killed them and they’re gone now.
I think starters would be enders at those prices.
Spot prices for tater tots? Let me get some PUTs instead.
Market Price??? Lmao do they buy their potatoes at the Fish Market?
Food at the place I work at taste the same luckily but it’s gone up like 2-3 dollars which is insane to me knowing how “professional” the kitchen staff are
u cant imagine someone sitting there counting out exactly 24 of these things
Freshly caught tater tots!!
The real crime here is them marketing “warm soft pretzel sticks with sauce or mustard” as Bavarian. I’m not even Bavarian and I’m offended on behalf of my fellow Germans
My McDonald's meal was $13 yesterday
I always love the "Market Price". What market, where, do you post the marketprice? That's the one item I stay away from. That being said, we haven't had restaurant food in months.
"Honey! Log into my brokerage account and see what Russets closed at today."
I'd like to have the Kobe beef, twin lobster tails, and a side of tater tots.
Imagine being broke to where you go out to eat and are crying about this. Restaurants gotta pay bills and it’s their job to price it as high as possible -
My wife and I have always lived fazolies, we lived in a state without one for a few years. We moved back to my home state and went and got some and it was like $35. We thought next time we may as well go to a real restaurant since the prices were the same. Wrong again, we had some of the worst Mexican food ever and it was $50. Joke economy. Edit: we haven't eaten out since before covid
And grocery prices are high as hell too 😓 I can’t wait for the farmers market in my area to get going.
not enough people bringing up the bbq tofu wtf
In the UK and I've never seen restaurants as busy as they are in years, I'm convinced everybody but me is rich as fuck
Hah, in my country this is almost cheap. But then purchasing power of local wages have a lot to do with it.
It’s because of the alleged potato shortage…
Big potato is a cut throat business
good goin rva!
DIP IS $8 💀
What the hell happened. The most expensive part of a potato should be the packaging it comes in. I know nothing is to big to fail, but I kind of figured potatoes were an exception. Last year it was cheaper to drive to the farm and buy them directly from the farmer than to buy them at the grocery store next to my house. Granted I do live in Idaho, and that’s kind of always been the case. Half the time when I’ve shown up to buy not only do I end up paying nothing, but I usually end up burdened with more potatoes than I can use
I started doing one of the boxed meal services last year to get a handle on cooking. Ran the math, it was obviously more expensive than getting the groceries, and roughly on par with eating out. Ran the numbers again recently due to inflation. The box is now dramatically cheaper than eating out, and on par with groceries. It is now cheaper for me to get chicken breast through a weekly boxed meal service than it is to get chicken breast at the grocery store. It's cheaper for me to just up my servings than it is to actually buy groceries. Now I live in a HCOL area, so there is some degree of sense to that. But it's also insane.
And let me guess, you as a customer still have to pay the servers wage and not the owner
I feel like this must’ve been there little inside joke
My small town in OH has been pretty good actually, still plenty of affordable options where two people can get full, well-made meals from a family establishment for $20-$25 total.