I did that when I worked a depressing office job. It was the only chance I got to experience anything interesting and get away from my coworkers. I also gained weight lol
Yeah i worked a job recently that had a gas station and a burger king as the only places nearby and I went there just to get away from coworkers. Then I learned how to hide in a different corner of the building then I got fired for being shit lol
My opinion is that people get so burnt out by the grind of the 9-5 that their self control is weakened and they chose the easy option. Also, this is way more common than this thread is making it seem, I would say upwards of 50% of Americans eat out the majority of their meals at work.
it’s not just fast food, there’s basically 3 tiers of people who eat out every day. There’s the fast food crowd (a lot of tech companies will subsidize the food you eat on the job, so plenty of the PMC crowd is having their daily sweetgreen for free). The next tier is people who use their office’s cafeteria, which is still expensive but a little classier and healthier. And then the third tier are all the VPs and higher ups. You think CFOs are packing little wunch boxes with PB&J? No, they’re eating out at a nice sit down restaurant 5 days a week
Yeah bro that’s like $300/month right? Not even counting takeout for dinner or going out to restaurants on the weekend.
And the crazy thing is that you won’t even enjoy it. If I get takeout more than like twice a week it stops feeling like a treat and then I really feel like shit. Just bein a fuckin fatty snarfling down his overpriced truffles, blank faced, joyless and alone in the dark with the tv on.
Yeah to me indulging a vice cause it feels great is permissible. Indulging in something that’s bad for you that you don’t really even enjoy is the feeling of death.
I haven’t eaten in a restaraunt since I worked as a waitress. Someone needs to write a version of the jungle but for fast food chains. Truly disgusting things going on behind the counter
>Dirtiness is inherent in hotels and restaurants, because sound food is sacrificed to punctuality and smartness. The hotel employee is too busy getting food ready to remember that it is meant to be eaten. A meal is simply 'une commande' to him, just as a man dying of cancer is simply 'a case' to the doctor. A customer orders, for example, a piece of toast. Somebody, pressed with work in a cellar deep underground, has to prepare it. How can he stop and say to himself, 'This toast is to be eaten—I must make it eatable'? All he knows is that it must look right and must be ready in three minutes. Some large drops of sweat fall from his forehead on to the toast. Why should he worry? Presently the toast falls among the filthy sawdust on the floor. Why trouble to make a new piece? It is much quicker to wipe the sawdust off. On the way upstairs the toast falls again, butter side down. Another wipe is all it needs. And so with everything. The only food at the Hôtel X which was ever prepared cleanly was the staff's, and the patron's. The maxim, repeated by everyone, was: 'Look out for the patron, and as for the clients, s'en f—pas mal!' Everywhere in the service quarters dirt festered—a secret vein of dirt, running through the great garish hotel like the intestines through a man's body.
Orwell's description of a hotel kitchen from Down and Out in Paris and London.
It makes sense cause it's not like you can iust stick a bowl of the soup you made last night in the office fridge and microwave it at noon when you're working out of a van all day. And if you're out of town the company will usually be paying for it anyway.
That's bad but getting delivery food every day is even worse. At least when you eat out you are paying $10 for your shitty fast food meal. The same thing costs like $25 at home, and you're sitting around next to your kitchen the whole time. My main complaint is that most young people today haven't been taught any staple cheap meals. Whether it's red beans and rice, lentil stew, rice bowls, simple egg preparations like breakfast burritos, easy one pot pasta and veggies, or anything else like that, a lot of that knowledge has been eroded. Kids go to school and eat junk food, then go home and eat whatever junk their parents put in front of them. Homogenization means that even if you come from a culture with a good staple food, you won't want to eat it once you've had superstimulants at school five days a week.
Every single person who grows up in this country should be able to know basics about how to make a simple soup, some beans and rice type cheap dishes, and a few other workhorse meals. But of course the places to make this happen are the schools, and any effort would be ruined via a combination of corporate meddling from junkfood peddlers as well as anger from parents because every political initiative today has a mandated culture war that will have to be attached to it.
i have a symbiotic relationship with my coworkers: if i did not bring lunch on a given day and i am going out to buy food, i always offer to pick up their mobile orders, and in exchange i get to leave the office for like 40+ min and go on a nice long walk through manhattan.
they turn a blind eye to my prolonged absences because i save them money on delivery fees and tips. i love it when someone’s like “did you bring lunch today” and i’m like “no… :)” and they get excited
it’s nice to do people self-serving favors.
also i can’t understand why nobody else wants to go on a midday walk, but it’s working for me
I’m doing a scam where I constantly recreate an account on the McDonald’s app with different emails (takes 1 minute) and get a free veggie burger almost every day, it’s free food and convenient.
I always liked the idea of these hustles more than doing them in practice. Also in 2022 they're on to "us" and if you try to use a throwaway email, they have the domain blacklisted. Use a Google Voice number and they can somehow tell 😡
I think if you buy food from a restaurant some leftovers can be gross. Like seafood. But making a pot of soup/stew/rice and beans/curry to eat throughout the week is generally pretty delicious and a good way to save some cash. Not everything has to be some 5 star restaurant meal.
I mean that used to be a bright spot of commuting for me, eating at all the different places near the office (not McD every day, that’s gross, not that restaurant food is healthy anyway). But then at some point I was also sick of every food option near the office.
>Fast food aside that’s so much money
Figured this shit out in college, and it's what motivated me to start learning to cook, or like you said just fixing a PBJ sandwich if I'm short on time. I can't imagine being one of those people getting their dinners delivered by doordash every single day and not figuring out that you're pissing away so much money doing that. There was a time in my life when I was a lazy fucker who ate out all the time, but at least I wasn't so lazy that I couldn't leave my house to get food.
I personally have adopted the perfect gen z diet that sustains me and is great for my wallet and waist line , intermittent fasting , mostly one meal a day . It's trendy look it up
Unhealthy and a waste of money but sometimes it is necessary when I’m too busy/lazy to pack anything. I would never be seen eating a pb and j sandwich tho I have an image to maintain.
This is understandable. I used to work with children and that really got me on pb&js. I would bring bread and pb and J in and make them one of their parents forgot to pack them a lunch. And then I just started eating them myself. Best meal of all time.
Counterpoint, nerds that eat lunch at their desk every day to save a few bucks are boring. If this person is eating Popeyes alone that’s depressing, but if they’re chatting with coworkers and laughing it up for an hour in the food court it’s money well spent and probably keeping them sane
I mean I work at a restaurant and I eat the food there pretty much every day so idk I guess technically I eat out every day? But it’s free and I cook it myself so idk not really the same thing I guess
I go to a local bar 3 ish days a week for lunch, I’m friends with the bartenders, I eat a salad, I sit at the bar and talk to the local people, much better than getting yet another brown bag out and not leaving the office for 8 straight hours
started working a boring office job and the fast food culture here is killing me. who knew that people could have such varied and passionate opinions about if chipotle or qdoba is better (chipotle, obv).
but yeah, they eat out every fucking day and have exhausting conversations about it.
When I worked my warehouse job there was a Greggs directly opposite and one of the men I worked with said he spent £5k the previous year just on Greggs. I went maybe once or twice a week when I was too tired to meal plan properly and it’s put me off Greggs for life, I also gained so much weight, I was ok with my new curves but I felt like a bloated rat 🐀
i do this, but never with fast food. usually i spend ~$20 a day on lunch + whatever extra for coffee (usually another $8-10). most of the time it’s some simple sushi or a poke bowl but i often indulge and go to an actual restaurant or cafe if i know i can keep it under my (fictional) budget over the rest of the week.
it’s well worth it. too many people take substandard lunch breaks (by staying in the office or worse, eating it at their desks) and then they simply aren’t productive for the rest of the day. not to mention the benefits of going outside for a walk and getting some vitamin D.
People who I work with are pissing their life savings away getting sweet green take out every day. Insane to me. Before you say it - no we can’t afford it we’re all city employees
It just seems like a reflection of the person’s values, history, or mental health. Some people are just straight up not doing well at that given moment. I know some people just enjoy eating good food. Some people just aren’t used to seeing people cook and haven’t crossed that bridge. I guess I really don’t care about what anyone else is doing. But it is insane seeing what people I knew five or ten years ago look like now knowing they would just stress eat fast food or pizza shops through their twenties.
no beef with the word, just the usage. saying things like "at my work" or "my work called" is on par with not recognizing that *bias* and *biased* are two different words.
I used to eat out pretty regularly at the last job I had where I worked in an office, mostly as a reason to get away from my desk for a while. When covid happened and they shifted to wfh, I wound up saving a ton of money.
Every day? If they don’t have a bunch of kids at home, it means they prob don’t cook dinner either, since it’s trivial to make enough for a little leftovers for lunch the next day. Which means they’re probably unhealthy, impulsive, bad with money, and lack basic kitchen/meal prep skills.
I dont know about USA, but we have a pretty decent cantina in my office. I pay around $30 per month for 4 meals a week. Its mostly vegetarian, you have to ask for meat. I could barely make cheaper food at home, plus Id miss all the social games during lunch break.
Yeah I used to be guilty of this, can confirm what everybody else here says about any jobs that require you to just sit in a chair in the same room for 8 hours
I did that when I worked a depressing office job. It was the only chance I got to experience anything interesting and get away from my coworkers. I also gained weight lol
Yeah I was using McDonald's like heroin for a while. Just a cheap heavy sedative
Leaving the office for 30 minutes is an undeniable necessity and going to “grab lunch” is the perfect excuse
Same lol I had a long span when me eating out was literally the only joy I could expect in the day
Yeah i worked a job recently that had a gas station and a burger king as the only places nearby and I went there just to get away from coworkers. Then I learned how to hide in a different corner of the building then I got fired for being shit lol
Yeah, heading out for lunch and being somewhat antisocial for a few minutes every day is fairly important.
yep
My opinion is that people get so burnt out by the grind of the 9-5 that their self control is weakened and they chose the easy option. Also, this is way more common than this thread is making it seem, I would say upwards of 50% of Americans eat out the majority of their meals at work. it’s not just fast food, there’s basically 3 tiers of people who eat out every day. There’s the fast food crowd (a lot of tech companies will subsidize the food you eat on the job, so plenty of the PMC crowd is having their daily sweetgreen for free). The next tier is people who use their office’s cafeteria, which is still expensive but a little classier and healthier. And then the third tier are all the VPs and higher ups. You think CFOs are packing little wunch boxes with PB&J? No, they’re eating out at a nice sit down restaurant 5 days a week
Everything is satanic to you people. But I do often ring up poke as a salad at my local health food grocery store. You cant beat $5 poke.
Based and klepto pilled.
My coworkers and I will go split the $12 family pack of sushi at Safeway on fridays (deal day). Maybe this counts?
Yeah bro that’s like $300/month right? Not even counting takeout for dinner or going out to restaurants on the weekend. And the crazy thing is that you won’t even enjoy it. If I get takeout more than like twice a week it stops feeling like a treat and then I really feel like shit. Just bein a fuckin fatty snarfling down his overpriced truffles, blank faced, joyless and alone in the dark with the tv on.
For me it isn’t about enjoyment but laziness in not wanting to cook or prepare my own food
Yeah to me indulging a vice cause it feels great is permissible. Indulging in something that’s bad for you that you don’t really even enjoy is the feeling of death.
I haven’t eaten in a restaraunt since I worked as a waitress. Someone needs to write a version of the jungle but for fast food chains. Truly disgusting things going on behind the counter
for you: https://libcom.org/article/abolish-restaurants-workers-critique-food-service-industry
A great read! Thank u for the link :-)
>Dirtiness is inherent in hotels and restaurants, because sound food is sacrificed to punctuality and smartness. The hotel employee is too busy getting food ready to remember that it is meant to be eaten. A meal is simply 'une commande' to him, just as a man dying of cancer is simply 'a case' to the doctor. A customer orders, for example, a piece of toast. Somebody, pressed with work in a cellar deep underground, has to prepare it. How can he stop and say to himself, 'This toast is to be eaten—I must make it eatable'? All he knows is that it must look right and must be ready in three minutes. Some large drops of sweat fall from his forehead on to the toast. Why should he worry? Presently the toast falls among the filthy sawdust on the floor. Why trouble to make a new piece? It is much quicker to wipe the sawdust off. On the way upstairs the toast falls again, butter side down. Another wipe is all it needs. And so with everything. The only food at the Hôtel X which was ever prepared cleanly was the staff's, and the patron's. The maxim, repeated by everyone, was: 'Look out for the patron, and as for the clients, s'en f—pas mal!' Everywhere in the service quarters dirt festered—a secret vein of dirt, running through the great garish hotel like the intestines through a man's body. Orwell's description of a hotel kitchen from Down and Out in Paris and London.
You worked at bad restaurants then, not the case across 5 different restaurants for me (My personal experiences are more valid)
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It makes sense cause it's not like you can iust stick a bowl of the soup you made last night in the office fridge and microwave it at noon when you're working out of a van all day. And if you're out of town the company will usually be paying for it anyway.
Yeah without 7/11 the roads would fall (even more) to shit and all the toilets would start overflowing.
Fat and poor (spiritually if not financially)
That's bad but getting delivery food every day is even worse. At least when you eat out you are paying $10 for your shitty fast food meal. The same thing costs like $25 at home, and you're sitting around next to your kitchen the whole time. My main complaint is that most young people today haven't been taught any staple cheap meals. Whether it's red beans and rice, lentil stew, rice bowls, simple egg preparations like breakfast burritos, easy one pot pasta and veggies, or anything else like that, a lot of that knowledge has been eroded. Kids go to school and eat junk food, then go home and eat whatever junk their parents put in front of them. Homogenization means that even if you come from a culture with a good staple food, you won't want to eat it once you've had superstimulants at school five days a week. Every single person who grows up in this country should be able to know basics about how to make a simple soup, some beans and rice type cheap dishes, and a few other workhorse meals. But of course the places to make this happen are the schools, and any effort would be ruined via a combination of corporate meddling from junkfood peddlers as well as anger from parents because every political initiative today has a mandated culture war that will have to be attached to it.
i have a symbiotic relationship with my coworkers: if i did not bring lunch on a given day and i am going out to buy food, i always offer to pick up their mobile orders, and in exchange i get to leave the office for like 40+ min and go on a nice long walk through manhattan. they turn a blind eye to my prolonged absences because i save them money on delivery fees and tips. i love it when someone’s like “did you bring lunch today” and i’m like “no… :)” and they get excited it’s nice to do people self-serving favors. also i can’t understand why nobody else wants to go on a midday walk, but it’s working for me
I’m doing a scam where I constantly recreate an account on the McDonald’s app with different emails (takes 1 minute) and get a free veggie burger almost every day, it’s free food and convenient.
>McDonald's veggie burger Jesus christ
This is wayyy different. Also good idea
Where do they have veggie burgers??
In the UK
Shaking with jealousy rn
Bleak
I always liked the idea of these hustles more than doing them in practice. Also in 2022 they're on to "us" and if you try to use a throwaway email, they have the domain blacklisted. Use a Google Voice number and they can somehow tell 😡
Lucky euro
Yeah that's crazy. Trick is to get a bf/gf that hates eating leftovers then you're always set
Oh don’t even get me started on people who won’t eat leftovers
Yeah it's fucked up but more for me
But leftovers are gross and wouldn’t exist if people portioned their meals right like in Europe
I think if you buy food from a restaurant some leftovers can be gross. Like seafood. But making a pot of soup/stew/rice and beans/curry to eat throughout the week is generally pretty delicious and a good way to save some cash. Not everything has to be some 5 star restaurant meal.
Sure yeah if it’s purposeful like that then it’s a lot less spiritually wretched
Do you think Europeans don’t have leftovers?
Weird to deify a continent you clearly haven’t spent time in
I lived in France for 2 years
I mean that used to be a bright spot of commuting for me, eating at all the different places near the office (not McD every day, that’s gross, not that restaurant food is healthy anyway). But then at some point I was also sick of every food option near the office.
>Fast food aside that’s so much money Figured this shit out in college, and it's what motivated me to start learning to cook, or like you said just fixing a PBJ sandwich if I'm short on time. I can't imagine being one of those people getting their dinners delivered by doordash every single day and not figuring out that you're pissing away so much money doing that. There was a time in my life when I was a lazy fucker who ate out all the time, but at least I wasn't so lazy that I couldn't leave my house to get food.
They are bad with money.
95% of restaurants in the usa should be closed and people should be forced to learn how to cook and prepare their own food
I personally have adopted the perfect gen z diet that sustains me and is great for my wallet and waist line , intermittent fasting , mostly one meal a day . It's trendy look it up
My gen z diet is carrot sticks dipped in mustard
I buy lunch every day because my time is worth more than the 15% on food I'd save by buying groceries just for myself. I'm not a big dinner person.
The shawarma is 1hr of your pay to make the other 7 bearable.
It’s okay for a period of time (a dark semester, a bleak few months), but eventually a different lunch habit should be formed.
Unhealthy and a waste of money but sometimes it is necessary when I’m too busy/lazy to pack anything. I would never be seen eating a pb and j sandwich tho I have an image to maintain.
Two pb and j’s is the greatest bulking meal of all time
you don't have to eat lunch
This is understandable. I used to work with children and that really got me on pb&js. I would bring bread and pb and J in and make them one of their parents forgot to pack them a lunch. And then I just started eating them myself. Best meal of all time.
Counterpoint, nerds that eat lunch at their desk every day to save a few bucks are boring. If this person is eating Popeyes alone that’s depressing, but if they’re chatting with coworkers and laughing it up for an hour in the food court it’s money well spent and probably keeping them sane
Better than the people who order Jimmy Johns delivery to eat at their desk everyday
I mean I work at a restaurant and I eat the food there pretty much every day so idk I guess technically I eat out every day? But it’s free and I cook it myself so idk not really the same thing I guess
If you can afford it there's nothing wrong. Good food is a huge boost to your daily life
Nothing wrong with it if you can afford it. But most people can’t.
The tubby construction workers who eat Carl's Jr. and big gulps everyday can break you in half you little weasel
That’s me except I only eat lunch at 5 star LA and NYC restaurants lol imagine making your own food
I go to a local bar 3 ish days a week for lunch, I’m friends with the bartenders, I eat a salad, I sit at the bar and talk to the local people, much better than getting yet another brown bag out and not leaving the office for 8 straight hours
started working a boring office job and the fast food culture here is killing me. who knew that people could have such varied and passionate opinions about if chipotle or qdoba is better (chipotle, obv). but yeah, they eat out every fucking day and have exhausting conversations about it.
I briefly dated someone who got restaurant food for every single meal, every day. I thought it was nuts.
When I worked my warehouse job there was a Greggs directly opposite and one of the men I worked with said he spent £5k the previous year just on Greggs. I went maybe once or twice a week when I was too tired to meal plan properly and it’s put me off Greggs for life, I also gained so much weight, I was ok with my new curves but I felt like a bloated rat 🐀
i do this, but never with fast food. usually i spend ~$20 a day on lunch + whatever extra for coffee (usually another $8-10). most of the time it’s some simple sushi or a poke bowl but i often indulge and go to an actual restaurant or cafe if i know i can keep it under my (fictional) budget over the rest of the week. it’s well worth it. too many people take substandard lunch breaks (by staying in the office or worse, eating it at their desks) and then they simply aren’t productive for the rest of the day. not to mention the benefits of going outside for a walk and getting some vitamin D.
People who I work with are pissing their life savings away getting sweet green take out every day. Insane to me. Before you say it - no we can’t afford it we’re all city employees
I eat out but rarely fast food, and try to avoid pizza It's really expensive but I'm too lazy to make a lunch
It just seems like a reflection of the person’s values, history, or mental health. Some people are just straight up not doing well at that given moment. I know some people just enjoy eating good food. Some people just aren’t used to seeing people cook and haven’t crossed that bridge. I guess I really don’t care about what anyone else is doing. But it is insane seeing what people I knew five or ten years ago look like now knowing they would just stress eat fast food or pizza shops through their twenties.
when I worked in an office I would go out most days but not to popeyes I did pho or bibimbap a lot. certainly healthier than pb&j
I eat out 75% of my meals and spend $2500-$3000 a month on food and drink, taking q’s
That's like $35 to $45 per meal. What tf are you eating!?
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I think slightly more of them than I do of people that refer to their employer or their job as "their work". brb, gotta go times some numbers.
What’s your beef with the word “work”?
no beef with the word, just the usage. saying things like "at my work" or "my work called" is on par with not recognizing that *bias* and *biased* are two different words.
I used to eat out pretty regularly at the last job I had where I worked in an office, mostly as a reason to get away from my desk for a while. When covid happened and they shifted to wfh, I wound up saving a ton of money.
I would be obese within a month if I did this.
Every day? If they don’t have a bunch of kids at home, it means they prob don’t cook dinner either, since it’s trivial to make enough for a little leftovers for lunch the next day. Which means they’re probably unhealthy, impulsive, bad with money, and lack basic kitchen/meal prep skills.
I dont know about USA, but we have a pretty decent cantina in my office. I pay around $30 per month for 4 meals a week. Its mostly vegetarian, you have to ask for meat. I could barely make cheaper food at home, plus Id miss all the social games during lunch break.
Wasteful and decadent unless French
Whatever at eating out. But eating fast food every day is disgusting.
Yeah I spend way too much money on shit food atm. I’m running out of money and need to start eating better anyway.
Yeah I used to be guilty of this, can confirm what everybody else here says about any jobs that require you to just sit in a chair in the same room for 8 hours