We eat “out” about once, maybe twice weekly. It’s partly to treat ourselves, but maybe even more than half is “help the restaurants make it”.
HOWEVER: We “eat out” by carrying takeout back to our home where we (microwave it as needed) and eat in. Because otherwise, we’d have to admit we’re crazy.
I appreciate the notion of going out of one’s way to help out this industry by purposely patronizing it… but I don’t like an associated guilt trip that tries to convince me that I owe it to them.
Many places are starting to allow indoor dining. I suspect most of that decision is, the places doing outdoor dining have now enclosed their tents, effectively muting the point that it was outdoor dining.
As for me, I think I will stick to carry out from the few places I trust.
It’s about keeping the country alive, not just the restaurants. I haven’t eaten in a restaurant in months, won’t until after shot two, but I sure want it to be there when I want to eat there. So, I get pickup from a couple of restaurants once a week-and yes, tip big-, when I pickup my groceries and whatever else I need that can be gotten without going in the store. The rest, I buy on line. Paranoid? Ask, my brother or my son. My son can be found at a rehab home where they expect him to be for another six weeks recovering from the blood clots the covid left in his lungs, and my brother isn’t going to answer at all, because we buried him last month- yup, covid again.
KenseidenXL over 3 years ago
Yes, but you can’t simply have an outdoor meal JUST to make it rain….
The Love of Money is . . . over 3 years ago
We’re lucky to be eating lunch today. The weatherman says we may have rain or a foot of snow by dinnertime.
You do know that weatherman is on the East Coast and three hours ahead of our time zone, right ?
Concretionist over 3 years ago
We eat “out” about once, maybe twice weekly. It’s partly to treat ourselves, but maybe even more than half is “help the restaurants make it”.
HOWEVER: We “eat out” by carrying takeout back to our home where we (microwave it as needed) and eat in. Because otherwise, we’d have to admit we’re crazy.
Tonto & Redd Panda over 3 years ago
Just had a close call…almost clicked on chip bok. That’d spoil a perfectly good Friday.
Perkycat over 3 years ago
Awwwwww…..LIFE!!
ferddo over 3 years ago
I appreciate the notion of going out of one’s way to help out this industry by purposely patronizing it… but I don’t like an associated guilt trip that tries to convince me that I owe it to them.
NeoconMan over 3 years ago
Republican cartoonists aren’t happy unless they’re complaining about SOMETHING….
Radish the wordsmith over 3 years ago
Do you pray before you eat?
Non, we are French, we know how to cook.
GiantShetlandPony over 3 years ago
Many places are starting to allow indoor dining. I suspect most of that decision is, the places doing outdoor dining have now enclosed their tents, effectively muting the point that it was outdoor dining.
As for me, I think I will stick to carry out from the few places I trust.
Diane Lee Premium Member over 3 years ago
It’s about keeping the country alive, not just the restaurants. I haven’t eaten in a restaurant in months, won’t until after shot two, but I sure want it to be there when I want to eat there. So, I get pickup from a couple of restaurants once a week-and yes, tip big-, when I pickup my groceries and whatever else I need that can be gotten without going in the store. The rest, I buy on line. Paranoid? Ask, my brother or my son. My son can be found at a rehab home where they expect him to be for another six weeks recovering from the blood clots the covid left in his lungs, and my brother isn’t going to answer at all, because we buried him last month- yup, covid again.
john_chubb over 3 years ago
Must be down south or costal CA – most of the rest of the US is under some significant amount of snow.