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I thought the point was that we no longer have this. I'm a millennial, and when I was in my 20s, we used to hang out at Denny's a couple times each week.
Now the policy has changed and the prices have gone up. We can't afford to eat out, and even if you can, you aren't allowed to hang out for hours chatting with your friends anymore.
That is a good point. I see a lot of people suggesting it hasn't been a thing since the '90s, when for me it stopped probably shortly before or shortly after COVID, and mainyl because I have kids. But I won't disagree that shits expensive everywhere, and I've certainly said to myself "Yeah, that ain't worth that." So I'm with you there.
I think I could still hop on down to my local watering hole and meet up with some friends and put some beers away though. The beers there have always been expensive, and so that at least hasn't changed.
I don't have kids, but it stopped being a thing around 2010-2015ish for me. It does feel like it's been on the downswing since the 90s, but maybe that's just because I could never afford to hang out at the bar, haha.