What do you usually order and what is the cost for breakfast in a nice family style restaurant in your community?
Same question for dinner.
Perhaps this is best as a question for IMHO.
But, with that said:
French toast with sausages, $6
Pork souvlakia with rice and greek salad, $10
And these are Canadian dollars, so in the US think $4.50 for breakfast, $7.50 for supper.
This is a sort of survey, so I’ll move this thread to the IMHO forum.
bibliophage
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Let’ see, the only place we really eat out for breakfast is the local diner, so:
Corned Beef Hash & Eggs: $7.00
Orange Juice: $2.00
Coffee: $1.50
Dinner (I’m not really sure what a “family style” restaurant is, so I’ll list prices for our favorite brew pub):
Hummus Plate (to share as an appetizer): $5 (my share $2.50)
Fish & Chips: $8
2-3 pints: $10-$15
I am looking for factual answers mod, not opinions.
That last post should have read:
I was looking for factual answers not opinions but since you’ve moved it over here I shall also ask:
Does $5.50 for a complete breakfast such as bacon and eggs, hashbrowns, toast, coffee and a 10oz. fresh squeezed fruit juice while sitting at a table overlooking the Pacific Ocean seem expensive to anyone?
Seems reasonable to me, considering the view and everything.
Sounds more than reasonable to me - sounds pretty cheap.
Unless of course you’re talking about a table perched on a cliff edge with no railing.
Then it sounds precarious & frightening. But I guess still a bargain financially.
It actually seems very inexpensive to me.
In my area, I would expect to pay $7-$10 for breakfast, more if the restaurant were upper-casual or fine dining.
For dinner, I would expect to pay $15-$20 for a couple of drinks, appetizer and entree. Add about $5-$7 if I decide on coffee and dessert. Of course, in this area, a fine dining establishment would easily be twice to three times that figure.
Breakfast at our favorite place in town usually runs about $30-$35 for the two of us. Pretty big omelettes, a side of toasted sourdough, home fries, coffee, and orange juice or mimosa.
Personally, I think the prices are a teensy steep. But the wait staff make up the difference. Trust me.
There’s another little diner/greasy spoon type place that we have breakfast at every now and then in the next town over. Similar type breakfast for the two of us is probably more like $20.
There are a couple of ‘family style’ restaurants in the area that we’ve gone to, but always with a large group, so I wouldn’t be able to estimate a price for just the two of us.
I’ll use the brewpub or a local pizzeria as an example and say $40-$60, for either a large pie, or a couple of sandwiches, salads, an appetizer to split, and a couple of beers.
A little less than that for a taqueria type place, a little more for a more formal-like restaurant.
Sounds great. If transportation from Pennsylvania is included, I’d like reservations for a party of 3 at 10 am next Sunday.
Absolutely not. In fact, sounds rather reasonable. I know I’ve paid close to double for that in some beach-side diners.
Not at all. In fact, it seems cheap. Most places I’ve been to charge $3-$4 for the fresh-squeezed fruit juice alone.
We typically pay about $15 for breakfast for two, including coffee, maybe a juice (not fresh squeezed). I typically order an omelet, Mr. Athena goes for eggs & bacon or corned beef hash.
Dinner for 2 at a sit-down restaurant is usually between $40 and $50. More, if we order a lot of drinks. A typical dinner at one of our favorite restaurants would include a couple beers or glasses of wine each, salad or soup, broiled whitefish with some sort of sauce, with sides of veggies and rice or pasta. With tip this runs about $45. At least $15 of that is drinks.
Interestingly enough, I guessed about 15% lower in both these cases. When I looked in Quicken, I found that eating out was more expensive than I thought!
Sounds cheap to me, too. But prices will vary widely in different parts of the country. I’m in Chicago. When I lived in Lincoln Park, $10 or even $15 for breakfast was not uncommon. One weekend, a younger and relatively recent addition to our circle of friends invited 8 of us to visit her parents’ farm in the extreme western part of the state. We had a great time, and had Sunday breakfast at a restaurant in town. The restaurant overlooked the Mississippi. Fantastic view.
One of the other guys there I’ve known well since I was 14, so we can communicate fairly well with looks and gestures. As we were walking in, we silently agreed that the two of us would pick up the tab for her parents and the group. We did, but both cracked up when we got the total. Big country breakfast. 10 people. Less than $25.
Thanks everybody. There are responses from the East Coast, the West Coast and several places in between and and Canada too. It looks like prices in those areas easily run 50% or more above the price in question.
Just to clarify a little. The place overlooking the ocean is in a small Mexican beach town popular in the winter with American and Canadian tourists and the food and service are both topnotch. You sit on a second floor, open-air verandah not 100 ft from the waters edge. An absolutely beautiful setting. This morning at the table next to ours, we overheard some customers (American or Canadian?) complaining about how “expensive” the meal was.
My breakfast consisted of:
Coffee… 12 pesos
Fresh-squeezed juice…16 pesos
Huevos Rancheros served with chilaquiles and refried beans…36 pesos
My wife had coffee and a large plate of fresh papaya…36 pesos total.
Total bill: 100 pesos divided by 11.2 pesos/dollar = $8.92usd
The highest priced entree on the menu was 42 pesos. A bottle of beer is 15.