Restaurants

[nobbie48]

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Doom and gloom Canada newscasts say 4000 will close in 2026 on top of the 7000 that closed in 2025. I don't know how many new starts there were last year or the forecast for 2026. Net gain or loss year to year.

Cold start up restaurants are brutally expensive and many fail. If a second owner can take over the place they might do better if they can take advantage of all the hard renos and services being done.

Food costs are up as are wages and rents.

I went for bacon and eggs at a nearby diner the other day and the usual came to about $17.50 with tax. The tip used up the rest of the $20 I left. Before Covid it was half that.

A recent very good expense account lunch for two was close to $150 with T&T.

Fast food combos are in the $12 to $15 range out the door. Ethnic places seem to have better value.

Quality at some places is going downhill.

The two of us are leaning more towards the extremes, skipping the mid range diners and either go cheap most of the time and high end occasionally. The middle of the road seems boring for the value.

 

[FullMotoJacket]

Quality at some places is going downhill.

I don't mind paying extra. It has grown disproportionately, though. That said, I have stopped eating at restaurants simply because even the basics of food handling/prep and etiquette have been tossed to the curb.

 

[sburns]

Not a good sign, I'm sure our gov is working tirelessly to figure out our economy and how to get things under control.....

My cousin and friends in Europe always mention how food prices are not going through the roof over there, unlike here.
I know we can't grow stuff during the winter and lots gets imported probably from the States, so we get a double wammy of US dollar exchange, and stupid tariffs of some sort.

Stuff like this just makes me think how f-ed up Canada is.

 

[Glenn/RZ500]

Not a good sign, I'm sure our gov is working tirelessly to figure out our economy and how to get things under control.....
Stuff like this just makes me think how f-ed up Canada is.

Thing is.....it`s only juuust beguuun! No worries, comrade Carney will sort it out.

 

[crankcall]

I eat in restaurants 3-4 lunches a week and two dinners min. It has increased at least 50-75% from what i see in three yrs. And mostly in the low/mid level dining, $100 a head places are still that or $125 ish , its a burger in the pub that is $25 bucks from $12.
Lunches still arent awful since my cronies and I have all decided to be lunch time dry, three pints at lunch at $8 per adds up fast.

 

[mimico_polak]

Prices at restaurants have gone bananas and there's no signs of it going down. Fact is that the majority of restaurants I'm seeing are still jammed on the weekends and don't show signs of slowing down.

McDonalds lunch for our family - used to be $50 and now $70
Boston Pizza - same exact order as last year...went from $60 -> $90

Prices went up, quality and size of meals went down...no wonder restaurants are failling.

 

[Shaman]

three pints at lunch at $8 per adds up fast.

At the last gig I did, I had two pints of "guinness" - or whatever that is that they call guinness in Canada - and it was $25 with not quite 20% tip.

Jeebuz wept. The best part is that I absent-mindedly set one of them on my bass cabinet just as we went to play "Radar Love" and of course about halfway through, it vibrated off and soaked my leg, after I got maybe two sips out of it. Didn't break the glass, but did also saturate my fiber-covered guitar cord. I know better, but the singer cued the band just as I thought I had a moment to check tuning and have a quick libation.

Untrustworthy, those singer types.

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