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      <![CDATA[What, exactly, is so bad about eating out?  It sucks preparing meals for one person and eating alone at home.  If I had more time, I'd eat out more.
        
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      <![CDATA[Someone should mention this posting to Charles...
        
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      <![CDATA[Spending less, or just visiting less? I ask, because it seems to me, quite unscientifically, that mid-level restaurant prices have gone through the roof in recent years. Much faster than the supposed inflation rate. I used to eat lunch out several days a week, but I had to stop because I can't get out of any of the places around here for under $20, with drink, tax and tip. And they're not doing it to gouge; restaurant costs are going way up too. The only places that are still cheap are places like taco trucks that make use of low-wage immigrant labor and cheap real estate (a truck and a parking space vs. a storefront). I don't know how older established non-hipster joints are surviving.
        
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      <![CDATA[<br />
--&gt;Thread break&lt;--<br />
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Here's what's wrong with the world today.<br />
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I start to smell a kind of glue, paint smell in my apartment.<br />
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I open the door and it's all around.<br />
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So, I calls up the landlady, and I says, "uh, it stinks in here".<br />
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And the landlady say, "Yes, they're painting the apartment below you to get it ready."<br />
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And I say, well you can't just suffocate me.<br />
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And she says, "Yes, it's in the lease."<br />
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          Posted by <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Profile?oid=1504513">Supreme Ruler Of The Universe</a>]]>
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      <![CDATA["supper high end?"
        
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      <![CDATA[<em>Time</em>? Really?
        
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      <![CDATA[Vegan restaurants all seem to be booming and expanding.  I can't remember the last one that closed.
        
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      <![CDATA[I miss Tacos Gringos.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Will in Seattle]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[You know, they could shrink portion sizes, realize that we are changing in terms of demographics, and stop helping Americans pig out.<br />
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It's always been a tough time for restaurants. Cash flow, turnover, unit prices, location, and the ability to withstand small downturns are critical to survival in the industry.<br />
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(caveat: only half of my relatives have run or managed restaurants, I'm just repeating what they say)
        
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          Posted by <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Profile?oid=1503038">Will in Seattle</a>]]>
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