# Very cheap but hearty eating places in the US

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 1, 2016, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-cheap-but-hearty-eating-places-in-the-us/747607 "2016-03-01T07:37:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2016, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-cheap-but-hearty-eating-places-in-the-us/747607/21 "2016-03-02T04:22:08Z")

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Lots of AYCE Indian lunch buffets here on Devon Avenue in Chicago, under $10 last I checked.

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2016, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-cheap-but-hearty-eating-places-in-the-us/747607/22 "2016-03-02T04:40:51Z")

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> [@JohnGalt](#):
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> …I don’t know if you can stop at any company cafeterias any longer, or even college cafeterias, to get a cheap place to eat. I assume there are security concerns at most of those places. Does anyone know of such places?

The Key Bank corporate HQ’s cafeteria in downtown Cleveland used to not mind if you didn’t work there but were presentable and didn’t hog a table; my book club met there several times. Good food at good prices, and they always had a hot lunch special and a gourmet pizza station. But a couple of years ago I guess too many non-employees were going there, so now it’s limited to employees only. You can’t go up in the elevators to the cafeteria without a Key Bank ID.

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**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2016, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-cheap-but-hearty-eating-places-in-the-us/747607/23 "2016-03-02T05:24:03Z")

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I’d sure like to find places like that in my neck of the woods–the South Bay area of Los Angeles County, California. (Other than Chinese, that is.)

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**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2016, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-cheap-but-hearty-eating-places-in-the-us/747607/24 "2016-03-02T09:51:26Z")

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Two places I often go to that serve very cheap, very good food are Blaze Pizza and Shophouse Kitchen:

> **[Blaze Pizza - Fast-Fire'd Custom Built Artisanal Pizzas](https://www.blazepizza.com/)**
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> Fresh dough. Artisanal ingredients. Inventive to classic. You decide.
> Blazing oven + dedicated pizzasmith + 180 seconds = fast-fire’d perfection. Pickup or Delivery.

[https://www.shophousekitchen.com/](https://www.shophousekitchen.com/)

Both serve meals that are under $8.

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