• Dojan@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    I can’t wait for the “GenZ are killing the restaurant business!” headlines.

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      To late us millennials already claimed that. Pretty sure we killed restaurants around the same time we killed movie theaters, trade schools, and domestic beer.

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        I barely eat at chain restaurants anymore, and the last time I did (at the Keg with a gift card) it was way better than it was 5-10 years ago, presumably because they’ve had to actually compete with good local restaurants nearby to win customers over.

        RIP Chain Restaurants, killing them was the best thing that’s happened to them.

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          Yeah some places have gotten better and can be a pretty good deal. I’ll do olive garden and they give you a salad and bread sticks with your entree, do carry out and have 2-3 meals for about $20 depending on what you get. Just have to have the right expectations.

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        Domestic beer?! If there is one impressive thing millennials have accomplished so far, it’s putting a brewery in every neighborhood of every major city in the western world. Locally brewed beer has been having a really good couple of decades.

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          Domestic is typically classified as beer like Budwiser and Miller. You’re describing craft beer which as you said it’s doing great… For IPAs

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            While it’s true that IPAs are most common, there are plenty of choices, especially at this time of year when everyone makes a Marzen, then a pumpkin, then a holiday ale. One of the reasons I like my local brewery is the variety of styles they make

            In my fridge right now

            • marzen
            • “festbier”, spiced German ale
            • Boch
            • esb
            • and of course an ipa
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              I know this - my husband is actually a small batch brewer himself - but IPAs very much dominate the market, which is what i was poking fun at

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                It’s getting a lot better here in the NE, USA but it’s still dominated by shitty fucking IPAs.

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                  It’s because IPAs are stupid fast to make. As a home brewer I can have an IPA done inside two weeks. That Scotch ale? It’s probably close to done and has been sitting for 4 months. And don’t even get me started on posters and stouts.

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          I don’t know if Millennials get credit for that. The legislation allowing it was signed by Jimmy Carter before these kids were born, and us X’ers did a lot more to get the industry established

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        Well we killed chain restaurants… Mainly because nobody can afford to waste our money on microwave crap when we can make better food at home

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        Well yeah, but they’ll move on from millennials at some point! Soon everything will be gen z’s fault!

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              boomer

              The author of this article, specifically, Chloe Berger, is in her twenties. Maybe early thirties. The youngest Baby Boomers are in their late sixties. They aren’t, generally speaking, working anymore. Pretty soon you’re gonna have to find a new age group to be your boogeyman. I assume it’ll be Gen X.

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                Fair enough, it’s just a stupid take then.

                Or maybe I call out Zoomers and make them my boogie man. Yeah, that’s what I’ll do 😁

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        If you’d only bought fewer iPhones and avocados you could have bought a 5 bedroom house with 3 garages, a pool and a white picket fence and take a holiday abroad twice a year. You just need more discipline, pull yourself up by the bootstraps*!

        *I am now going to research what bootstraps are.

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      Just wait, next time the economy is doing good, and gen z can afford to actually do things, there will be a lot of “gen Z discovers” articles. “Gen Z discovers you can pay for someone to make food for you”, “Gen z is discovering that vacations are fun”

      Like it just took this long to realize lol