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High-income Americans rarely mix with poorer people. Restaurants like Applebee's and Olive Garden are the exception (www.msn.com)
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[–] LastYearsPumpkin@feddit.ch 78 points 11 months ago (5 children)

People in here are missing the point. Yeah, Applebees, Olive Garden, IHOP, etc. aren't "classy", they're cheap chain sit-down restaurants. They appeal to a wide audience, cause they are clean, the food is fine, they serve a variety of drinks, and you can go there semi-regularly as long as you have some disposable income.

Sure, you're not going to see multi-millionaires who grew up rich going there, those people go to the "fancy" chains, like Ruth's Chris Steak House. But you'd probably see a 6 figure tech job family sitting in a both next to a plumber family sitting next to a doctor family. Which is something you don't really see at most other places.

[–] pohart@programming.dev 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Six figure tech job here. I no longer feel like I can afford Applebee's, idk about olive garden because the food is gross. Certainly can't afford drinks and dinner.

[–] MagicShel@programming.dev 6 points 11 months ago

All you can eat zupa toscana. It's the only reason to go to olive garden. The salad is fine also I guess. Hard to fuck up lettuce and Italian dressing. That said I probably go less than once a year.

Applebee's, on the other hand, I don't think I've been to one in fifteen years.

I don't really like eating out that much any more unless it's for something I can't do at home like sushi or hibachi or a slow roasted brisket. Slop on a plate with sauce or a medium rare ribeye are things I can easily make at home for half the price.

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago

They're anything but cheap

[–] nicetriangle@kbin.social 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

It's not really the money, these places just seem like a terrible waste of <eating out calories>. And if you're getting the lower calorie healthier option on these menus the food is just totally depressing. Always something like "here's a piece of lemon, some leaves, and a skinless chicken breast." I'm not paying someone to prepare that for me.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Olive Garden is freaking disgusting to me. It's normal for things like soups to be made ahead of time and kept warm, their food tastes extremely tortured, though. event the pasta is far more 'meh' than it should be.

The only thing going for Olive Garden is the giant olives in the salad. Which promptly find their way onto my (or the nephew's) fingertips for a little childish fun. (Unfortunately, the rest of the family actually likes OG. I don't know why.)

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[–] tastysnacks@programming.dev 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Dude, do you know how much a plumber makes?

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[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 69 points 11 months ago (17 children)

Lmfao Applebee's isn't classy at all, it's like a step above Denny's. Nobody with money is like 'you know what I want tonight? some shitty microwaved food in a 90s setting where the service is meh and the cost is 3x what it's actually worth'. People who think it's high-class, are not actually high-income. Maybe to the social media influences, not people with real jobs.

Or has the joint turned itself around massively in the last decade?

[–] silverbax@lemmy.world 26 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I don't even consider Applebee's to be a restaurant.

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[–] Hyperreality@kbin.social 24 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

People who think it’s high-class, are not actually high-income.

Trump likes his steak well done with ketchup and his bathrooms gold plated.

Zuckerberg pays hundreds for crappy grey t-shirts.

The richest man in the world is a twat.

Wealth, class, and discernment are not synonymous.

Cunts are still running the world.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Trump likes his steak well done with ketchup and his bathrooms gold plated.

because he's mentally and literally still in diapers. the man is a toddler.

[–] iheartneopets@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Having waited tables at a club exclusively for the wealthy who paid $200 a month just to get in and pay more money for food/drinks, I can tell you first hand that most rich people are trashy as fuck. Really changed how I thought about the upper class, and was a significant stepping stone on my path to the left.

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[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Maybe they mean high income in comparison to the world? Like the top 10% of wage earners globally starts at just above $100,000 and that isn't caviar and cristal money.

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[–] Furedadmins@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago

Bullshit you can get pancakes at Denny's. Applebee's is a step above 711 since someone else microwaves the tv dinner for you.

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 11 points 11 months ago

My wife and I are high income but we used to be very poor. To this day Chili's is a "go to" date night joint.

[–] SeaJ@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago

I think people only go to Applebee's for the cheap drinks.

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[–] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 44 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I wonder if this article is just an ad for those restaurants. "Eat here to mix with the elites!"

[–] Sharpiemarker@feddit.de 19 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

"Eat here to mix with the serfs!"

Serf and turf?

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 11 months ago (5 children)

More like "serf & toff". 🤌🏼

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[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 39 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Call it an anecdote but I have never seen a single person at Applebee's who looked like they earned more than $30,000/yr

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 23 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

I haven't been to an Applebee's since like 2010, but I'm gonna assume going out to eat at Applebee's has also gotten more expensive to the point where your comment is probably less valid than it was in like 2010.

Like, I don't think someone earning 30k/yr is able to budget in a night out at Applebee's rn.

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[–] Hyperreality@kbin.social 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

How would you know?

Not everyone who's rich, dresses like Richie Rich. Plenty dress down, dress frugally or simply don't give a fuck about impressing diners in a chain restaurant. Hell, I used to work for a bank, and some of our richest clients looked borderline homeless.

I mean, you can dress like Zuckerberg for 50 bucks. Sure, his boring ass t-shirts actually costs a few hundred, but you wouldn't be able to tell unless you took a really close look. Old money also loves going under the radar.

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[–] GarytheSnail@programming.dev 6 points 11 months ago (4 children)

That's because we dress for the restaurant.

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[–] stolid_agnostic@lemmy.ml 33 points 11 months ago (1 children)

so both wealthy and poor people have equally bad palates, gotcha

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 7 points 11 months ago (4 children)

"That's what rich people eat; the garbage parts of food."

"Well I had garbage yesterday and it didn't cost $300!"

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[–] BigTrout75@lemmy.world 24 points 11 months ago (2 children)

All these places are just fancy fast food. Half of the menu I'd frozen to fat fryer. But hey if your having fun, that's what counts.

[–] CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 15 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Maybe 20+ years ago. I view current Applebee's as just plain shit and Olive Garden as a faux fancy restaurant that probably has a giant bank of microwaves in the kitchen to prepare your prepackaged frozen meals.

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[–] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Tfw I like olive garden. I only ever get the soup, salad, and bread sticks tho.

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

Olive garden is different. When you're there, you're family.

[–] moneyinphx@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Olive Garden hits different. Sure I can go to some classy authentic Italian restaurant and I do, but sometimes you get a craving that only Olive Garden salad, breadsticks, and shitty pasta can satisfy.

[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 7 points 11 months ago

Give me breadsticks and a giant bowl of alfredo sauce and I'm set.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 15 points 11 months ago

We had to shut down the applebees because no one could afford to eat there in my town

[–] mhague@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I'm curious if the content was switched after comments were made? Like it's just some research that uses mobile data to show likely interactions, but most comments are rebutting things that were never said and doesn't seem to be in the PDF, ie, "these places aren't classy."

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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

Fascinating that the article runs down a whole host of communal gathering spots and completely, utterly, fails to mention houses of worship.

"Other businesses, like pharmacies, grocery stores, and gyms, or public institutions, like parks, schools, and libraries, are not as diverse"

Where do the different faiths rank compared to restaurants? Are they all the same or do Pentacostals rank lower than, say Catholics?

Maybe the authors of the study went out of their way to ignore the religious angle.

[–] Frozengyro@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

Rich people don't go to church, that's for the poors

[–] Javi_in_4k@lemm.ee 6 points 11 months ago

That's because churches are more segregational than communal.

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[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

When you're here, you're a lesser form of family. Don't look at me.

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