High-income Americans rarely mix with poorer people. Restaurants like Applebee's and Olive Garden are the exception
High-income Americans rarely mix with poorer people. Restaurants like Applebee's and Olive Garden are the exception
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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?
I don't even consider Applebee's to be a restaurant.
It's my neighborhood bar and grill
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.
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.
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.
I enjoy classical music and seeing it live is either free or near free. I find it amusing the idea that people who do this are supposed to be rich. It's just regular people who enjoy it.
Most people that absurdly wealthy are toddlers.
That's the point. They never even learned how to wipe their own ass, you think they know what class is?
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.
I would think it's exclusive to the US since these are both US restaurants.
Yeah, you're probably right, I'm just trying to make sense of the numbers.
Bullshit you can get pancakes at Denny's. Applebee's is a step above 711 since someone else microwaves the tv dinner for you.
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.
I think people only go to Applebee's for the cheap drinks.
The hundred millionaire CEO of the corporation I work goes to Applebee's. Yes really. My boss swears when they went once the guy took out a coupon.
LOL, holy shit
I know. It is something that greatly confuses me. I know it's true because multiple people where I work have told me that he has treated them to lunch there.
You don't go to Applebee's because you want great food or a classy atmosphere. You go there because you know what to expect, no surprises.
You know the food will be, at least, OK. You go there because the service will be, at least, OK. You already know the prices, at least roughly.
It's a safe place to take a first date or take the family kinda place. Nothing will be wildly out of anyone's expectations, plenty of choices for everyone. We all know what we're walking into. Bland but "safe".
Personally? I'd rather take a bet on a rotten-assed, hole-in-the-wall dive where no one speaks English and the salsa is actually hot. But that's just me.
Applebees is for boomers. Your 60 year olds are eating there because they want to. Anyone under 40 doesn’t actually want to be there.
originally, Applebees was for millennial college and high school students going out to for a place to get cheap apetizers and hang out together.
then the boomers started invading.
Applebee’s opened before the first millennial was born (most consider millennials to be 1981-1996). With an opening date of 1980, the high school and college students of the time are baby boomers.
The term "boomer" refers to folks born during the post-WWII baby boom, and while the exact dates vary depending on who you ask, usually that's ending in 1955-60ish, so really with opening years at the end of the century that would be Gen X who would've been the majority of the high school and college kids eating there. Granted the generations are pretty meaningless if you look to closely at the specifics
Hm, basically every statistical source puts it as exactly 1946-1964. 16 and up is what I assume high school and college students that could eat out alone were at the time— a few 15 and under probably made it, but weren’t the target demographic nor the majority.
Where are you seeing it end at 55-60? I googled it to double check and can’t find a single source that puts it outside the exact 1946-1964 range. Per Wikipedia:
A significant degree of consensus exists around the date range of the baby boomer cohort, with the generation considered to cover those born from 1946 to 1964 by various organizations such as the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Pew Research Center, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Federal Reserve Board, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Gallup, YouGov and Australia's Social Research Center. The United States Census Bureau defines baby boomers as "individuals born in the United States between mid-1946 and mid-1964". Landon Jones, in his book Great Expectations: America and the Baby Boom Generation (1980), defined the span of the baby-boom generation as extending from 1946 through 1964.
I was honestly going off of memory, and usually when I try to look up the age ranges it's looking up the younger "generations" so I suppose I'm incorrect
My point being the target demographic were millennials, and there was a point where part of it being cool was that there weren't boomers or older people going.
Even if it originally served previous generations that were in that same place we were at the time, they weren't serving those generations at the time we were there. then, the started coming into that space so we left. maybe it wasn't entirely conscious, but that's kinda what happened.