Two-thirds of Americans are cutting back on restaurants and movies, 61% are driving less, four in 10 say they are spending less on restaurants and a third are using more credit cards as record 40-year high inflation hits home

People are increasingly skipping Friday-night treats like movies and restaurants as inflation bites into paychecks More than 4 in 10 are spending less on groceries, even cutting back on such staples as bread, milk and eggs Cash-strapped Americans in Wisconsin, …

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DoorDash, Grubhub and Uber sue NYC over bill that limits how much they can charge restaurants

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/10/doordash-grubhub-and-uber-sue-nyc-over-delivery-fee-limits.html DoorDash, Grubhub and Uber Eats are suing the city of New York over a bill that would make emergency delivery fee caps permanent. The lawsuit follows a similar legal action from DoorDash and Grubhub against San Francisco. The companies …

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TheDailyBeast Columnist: “I see packed restaurants and people inside stores and malls and their kids aren’t wearing masks. I feel I’m in a horror movie.”

I see packed restaurants and people inside stores and malls and their kids aren't wearing masks. I feel I'm in a horror movie. — Wajahat Ali (@WajahatAli) June 27, 2021 https://twitter.com/bimboubermensch/status/1409267809440382976 https://twitter.com/MorgaineSW/status/1409258641463513089 https://twitter.com/KnightOfVienna/status/1409315949535191044     h/t dr0id

A Solution To Noisy Restaurants

via 4brad: A recent New York Times article on going to restaurants over 50 didn’t need to remind me of something almost all of us oldsters already know — you can’t hear people any more except in rare quiet restaurants. If I sit …

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