Comment on Gen Z is cooking more and shopping less as they struggle to achieve financial success
dojan@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I can’t wait for the “GenZ are killing the restaurant business!” headlines.
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
Gen Z discovers the joy of home ownership lol
Gen Z discovers the joy of revolution
Too soon
unlikely
MacGuffin94@lemmy.world 8 months ago
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.
cheery_coffee@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
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.
MacGuffin94@lemmy.world 8 months ago
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.
Socsa@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
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.
MacGuffin94@lemmy.world 8 months ago
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
Taleya@aussie.zone 8 months ago
As long as you like IPAs
AA5B@lemmy.world 8 months ago
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
AA5B@lemmy.world 8 months ago
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
buzz86us@lemmy.world 8 months ago
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
dojan@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Well yeah, but they’ll move on from millennials at some point! Soon everything will be gen z’s fault!
MacGuffin94@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Gen z killed " millennials killed" articles
JonEFive@midwest.social 8 months ago
What will the lazy boomer authors do now? Won’t someone think of them?
MrFlamey@lemmy.world 8 months ago
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.