Didn't feel like cooking last night so I ordered 3 meatball subs from a local Italian place. I didn't look at the price before I did it because
- We're FBGs, c'mon
- It's 2024, we don't look at prices before we buy stuff anymore, we just buy them and then complain about the price afterwards
I get up to the register to pay for it and she kind of mumbled the total, $x7.35. I couldn't tell if she said $27.35 or $47.35. Honestly I could have seen it being either ,and I was kind of expecting the latter, but it was actually the former.
Turns out these subs, at a local italian restaurant, are $8.50 each. Now mind you these are giant subs, and they each come with a decent side (soup, salad, or small pasta portion) and garlic sticks. And the subs are really good.
Just a locally owned place. No shareholders. Owners are probably happy to live a nice life with a decent reliable customer base and not try to pinch off every penny of margin.
So yeah, moral of the story is these places still exist. I realize not everywhere, but most people don't really care how much they're spending or take the time to look at it ahead of time (which I myself was guilty of here, I just got lucky). If everyone starting caring instead of just b****ing about how much they're happily spending and shopping smarter maybe the $15 sub place down the street would sit empty and see the $8.50 sub place down the street packed. Then maybe the $15 sub place would have to choose between pricing more appropriately or going bye bye.