I paid $7.12 for an arbys classic roast beat and a small fry.

Dont blame the restaurants, they are at the bottom of the food chain. They have about as much control of what they charge as a gas station owner with a qt and a buccees across the street. Nobody likes the current situation. 100 percent of our vendors have taken multiple price increase during the last 12 months. Chicken at the wholesale for tenders is up 90 percent and basically any set price contracts have been voided. You want it to start changing start voting people in office who can fix it cause this group sure cant. I have said before if you make 100 k a year you are screwed. Stuff is going through the roof.

I can buy brisket at Kroger for $2.97 lb and then drive down the street to the best BBQ joint in town and buy one pound of sliced brisket to go for $24 lb. Seems to me, the restaurant is doing OK.

Brisket is a loss leader item at stores. If tman would like to chime in about the economics of selling meat with a huge shrinkage factor, expensive spices, expensive sauce, expensive utilities and expensive staff along with a laundry list of costs that would make this tltr I'll leave that up to him. By the way, dont expect us to work for free so you can eat for cheap .

We have made it a point that when we eat out to keep it local. There are a lot of good locally owned joints that appreciate our dollar much more than say a Chili's etc...

All that means is we don't eat out anymore. I feel for you truly, but its every man for himself.

I paid $7.12 for an arbys classic roast beef and a small fry.

I had Arby's a few months back. When did you have to start specifying curly fries instead of those nasty *** regular fries they serve?