I see it as being at least a little more nuanced than that and it's related to our view of what restaurant are forhttps://twitter.com/alexandraerin/status/871037457420169218 …
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My parents' generation had an active stigma against fast food and take home food and I feel like mine doesn't
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And by the same token they see inherent value in the "restaurant experience" I don't think mine does
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Like I'll tell you why I've never gone to Buffalo Wild Wings and it's not food snobbery bc I'm not a snob at all
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It's bc I can get wings from a dozen places where I *don't have to* sit at a table and be served by someone w 14 pieces of flair
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The "dining out experience" is more of a con than a pro for me as a screen-addicted antisocial millennial
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I'll pay that premium if it's worth it bc there's something special about the food, otherwise I don't care
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Fwiw this "mid-level casual dining chain" business model deserves to be killed for exactly this region
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It's the highest-margin form of food service, IIRC -- both fast food and high-end restaurants have thinner profits per unit
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The Darden empire et al roared into power in the 1970s off of stagnating min wages for tipped employees (it's like $2 an hour)
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Meaning that tacking on the "dining out experience" to various genres of mediocrely mass-produced food was a dirt cheap value add
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One small part of why this model is crashing may be the soaring inequality this helped create means way more Millennials have waited tables
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So we don't see "the dining out experience" as being as cheap bc we are less comfortable tipping like assholes
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