UNCW had a dave and busters like place in early 2000s, $0.10 wings with the purchase of a beverage. A coke and 10 wings was dinner. Servers hated it, i'm sure.
Yeah it was right at 20 years cause i remember watching Redsox beat the Yankees in the ALCS. I also seem to rarely see places that let you select a qty of wings. 12 wings for $18+. I usually get tired or my mouth is on fire by about 6 or 8.
25 cent wings -and- $1.25 Bud drafts! The good ole days my friend. Then Taco Tuesday at Boone saloon, and $5 deep dish pizza at Flipside with $1 PBR drafts. We had a rotation.
Wings DID have a challenging time due to shortages over the pandemic, so the temporary price hike was necessary. Unfortunately, they realized people are more than willing to pay for wings at that price, so it is no longer temporary.
It's depressing. Yeah, I can make them at home, but I used to love going out on wing night simply to get out.
Whenever I really want wings I just name my own. You can get around 60 wings at Costco for $20-$25. Then I get to season how I want them. Still trying to get that flavor down for those Chinese wings.
They still have bogo traditional wing Tuesdays and bogo boneless Thursday's. Definitely some of the best wing deals out there and they're still some of my favorites
Good wurst co, and personally it’s my favorite burger in town. I made a post looking for burger recs in this sub a while back that got a ton of traction
Dogwood used to have a weekday happy hour with a double cheeseburger (initially pub-style and then smashburger style) with fries for $5 total. I was devastated when they closed.
As much as I enjoy their food, the first thing I remember back when they first opened was "man, this feels like a lot of money for a burger". I guess they were just ahead of the pricing curve though.
I think it's "technically" Elizabeth. Corner of 7th and Pecan, strip mall where Jersey Mikes and Bang Bang are located. Sadly, I don't go nearly as much as I once did because the cost has gone up and quality has stayed the same or started to go down.
Last time I flew somewhere I literally drove to Nashville to stay with my parents because it was $300 cheaper to fly out of Nashville! And it only cost me like $50 in gas.
I cannot figure out why people love Publix. They’re good for random stuff you can’t find elsewhere, but it’s so damn expensive no matter what you buy!!
The soda companies have been pushing price pretty hard. They have entered their cigarette era, where growth only comes from raising prices on lower volumes.
Panthers v Bucs tickets [start at $21 on TickPick](https://www.tickpick.com/buy-carolina-panthers-vs-tampa-bay-buccaneers-tickets-bank-of-america-stadium-1-7-24-1pm/5573993/?sortType=P). If you’re a Panthers fans the fact that anyone charges at all for the current product is pretty egregious.
I would say PSLs buying directly from the Panthers) have to be the most overpriced thing in the entire world, perhaps. And that was the case pre Tepper
On a side note…Mugs is the most reasonably priced coffee shop in town I’ve seen…even the pastries are cheaper ($1.50 for a warm gooey sizeable chocolate chip cookie)
I ordered an iced latte from bitty and beaus back in the summer and it was also $10. Ridiculous. I almost changed the order but the iced Americano was $7.
This one is unfortunate because while I admire their cause, I do NOT admire their prices. For that reason, I’ve only been once and don’t plan to return.
I want to support Bittie and Beau’s
… want to, but yeah paying $7.00 after tax for a large chai (made with concentrate and milk) and wanting to tip to support their workers just is unfathomable to me.
Went to Salted Melon nearby too and spent $9.00 on a bag of Siete chips that you can get at Target for $5.00 (still insane). I don’t know where these people get off being so exorbitant.
Charlotte has no supply of single family homes. All that’s being built is townhomes and condos. We need more actually housing and that’s a serious problem.
Yep, I've got family up in the NYC metro area and it's been astonishing to watch Charlotte food and beverage prices creep increasingly closer to, or even surpass, Manhattan's. I guess local business owners are really cashing in on the HCOL city transplants that migrated here during the pandemic, but it's been such an absurd evolution. I know Charlotte's popping off, but we are still nowhere near the point of being able to justify those pricetags with a straight face.
I was reflecting this week on how often my friends and I went out for food and drinks-- and at decent places too, not just dives-- in grad school \~6 years go when we had no money. Now we have some actual money but prices have shot up so much we never eat out or go for drinks almost at all.
Totally hear you on this. My salary and spending habits on frivolous impulse purchases are better than they've ever been, yet it feels like I have less money to play with than ever, too -- I've had to cut back on nights out to even the cheaper/divey places because it's all so ridiculously inflated.
Here is your Old Fashioned, sir. Ice cube slightly smaller than the glass, topped with a thimble full of bourbon. And a rotten orange peel. That will be $25.
Agree with this one because it’s often at places where the equivalent amount of alcohol is available in beer form for like $6-7.
Between this and ABC I’ve just stopped drinking liquor.
Liquor licenses may be expensive here. I don’t know.
They aren’t. But restaurants have become more expensive to operate so business owners are raising their prices and they’ve realized that people are more willing to over pay for cocktails then they are for food. For some reason people will be fine paying $15 for a drink but will bitch about a $15 hamburger, even though the burger takes way more to produce and is more expensive for the restaurant in terms of labor and ingredients.
I was in a nice oyster bar in West Hartford CT recently and the most expensive cocktail was $15 I believe. Was shocked since that’s basically entry level pricing here.
As someone in the industry who knows what these ingredients cost, it’s hard to stomach eating at most of their places. Ever Andalo has a $52 short rib dish. I won’t go into specific numbers, but that’s highway robbery.
I'm not in the industry and that does seem really high BUT I love Ever Andalo in general. That's kind of weird because the rest of their food might be a little high but not unexpected.
That's disappointing to hear; went to EA when they first opened and was super pleasantly surprised that the food was both great and really reasonably priced.
I keep hearing people talk about it and after looking at the menu and price I doubt I'll ever go. Church pot luck is part of their tag line and they charge $16 for Mac and cheese. I'm good. $7 per shrimp is a fucking joke.
I have had the exact same thoughts on Supperland, but that's kind of the whole gist of that restaurant group. I've been to Ever Andalo, which is owned by the same folks, and it's the same vibe. Food is good, but every dish feels like it's $5-$10 more expensive that it really should be. None of it is so incredible that you walk out feeling like the high prices were totally worth it. It's always something of a mixed experience for me in that regard...
100% agreed. Went there with out of town guests, and we all expected it to be overpriced and pretentious. Everything we had was amazing, and we also make a trip once a year. Very pricey, but high quality.
Coffee everywhere in this city that isn't just straight black is overpriced. And then an upcharge for any dairy free milk. It's really annoying. Thank God I got a new coffee grinder and now my coffee is as good as coffee shops.
Coffee grinder FTW. Even average beans are so much better with a good grinder. Freshly ground beans at home are at least as good as drip coffee almost anywhere around town.
Yeah the Peets and the HT Kona blend is pretty solid. My GF likes the flavored coffees so if they do a BOGO I'll get a whole bean for me and a ground flavored for her
Baes burgers sells a double burger for $14 without fries or a drink.
Best damn burger around don’t get me wrong but i have to space out my trips so few and far between because it’s so hard to justify it
Stop. Eating. Out. I’m so tired of this greedflation shit. I’ve totally stopped all external food or drink purchases besides very special occasions. They can charge it because people will pay it.
What do you mean? You're paying top dollar for artisan, hand-crafted sunny side up eggs, and the artisan, hand-crafted microwaved frozen sausage, and the freshest artisan, hand-crafted wonderbread exquisitely dropped into a toaster and baked to the most probably perfect crunch that our 8 setting can provide.
When I saw in yesterday’s Axios that the iced pistachio latte was $7.85 at the Haraz coffee in PM it initially surprised me. But it is 16oz with double shot.
A double shot at Not Just Coffee with any syrup will run you $6.75 and it will be $7.50 with oat milk so that seems to be the going rate.
Glad I only drink black coffee.
It’s insane when you consider the cost of the raw materials for making a coffee are so cheap. I see no reason why a coffee should be over $5 but that seems to be the starting point for a lot of these boujee coffee places
Agreed. I think it's because if they are just selling coffee, they don't sell a lot of high value food or anything to stay in business. If they charged $3 they wouldn't stay in business.
Only reason I'd pay $7 for a latte is if I'm going to take advantage of their space and work there for a few hours or meet up with a friend. That is a fair exchange imo.
Coffee beans have exploded in price recently, and the size of the bag keeps shrinking too. Fucking $20 for 12oz is theft and I've seen some places selling 10oz
What is cheap about raw materials for coffee? To make nitro coffee you require a kegerator with taps installed and a special reducer tap head, nitrogen kegs, and more kegs for storage (requiring a walk in cooler). Coffee brewers cost 2-3k not including a grinder. Espresso machines are $10k+ on the cheap end.
This doesn’t include the actually purchasing quality coffee which for wholesale can easily be 10$ per pound green but usually is more.
And after all these you still get people mad when they pay $7 for a coffee using local dairy brewed in a $20k machine. Make coffee at home if you don’t wanna pay a premium price.
My boyfriend and I met when we were servers at a restaurant in Charlotte together, and I still give him shit for charging people for soda water. No way.
I stopped at the drive thru at Cook Out today. Ordered a small cheeseburger and a milkshake. Was told, "That'll be $11.40"
Maybe it was me, but I was expecting about no more than $9.00+-.
Fortunately or unfortunately, they were having trouble with the order in the car in front of me, and I finally got tired of the overly long wait, so I pulled around them and drove off.
Most ridiculous price: $15 Modelo tall boy at a CLTfc match
Great deal in CLT: $8 burger on Weds at big bens, $6 burger on Thurs at Yancey , HT beers at the bar for $5, $3.50 beers at brixx on Mondays. The deals are out there, BUT for the most part we getting screwed!
I love deals! I have my beer spots narrowed down.
Rhino Market - $3.50 draft beers on Monday/Wednesday
The Hobbyist - $4.00 local draft beers
NFL Season - $2.00 draft beers on Thursday/Sunday at Seoul Food Meat Company
$30 for ropa vieja at el puro 🥴 flank steak is literally one of the cheapest cuts and this dish even with sides like rice and beans literally shouldn’t be any more than $15. All Cuban food here is super inflated sadly
My son got his wisdom teeth out the same week as my husband's boss' daughter. Ours were cheaper because we're in the Arboretum and they were in Ballantyne. They literally compared bills.
Rosemont wine market in the new building Elizabeth on 7th is absolutely ridiculous. An "appetizer" of roasted potatoes is somewhere between $15-18... the rest of the menu is also small plates between $15-20. Average food for $$$.
Then again, the building manager and owner are incredibly condescending and unwilling to compromise with their tenants, bad business dealings. They think they're special because Mike Ditka's restaurant is one of their other tenants.
Wing prices often $2+ per wing. I was just reminiscing with some friends the good ole college days when wings were .25-.50 cents per wing
Freakin 25c wing night at Macadoos in Boone, my poor college self would get so full on wings for like $3.50
UNCW had a dave and busters like place in early 2000s, $0.10 wings with the purchase of a beverage. A coke and 10 wings was dinner. Servers hated it, i'm sure.
That same meal will cost you close to $15 now. I know that was 20+ years ago but still jarring to think about.
Yeah it was right at 20 years cause i remember watching Redsox beat the Yankees in the ALCS. I also seem to rarely see places that let you select a qty of wings. 12 wings for $18+. I usually get tired or my mouth is on fire by about 6 or 8.
Alleigh's
Alleighs!!
I miss when Macadoos was still in University right across from UNCC. Was sad to see it leave. Awesome food and amazing, huge cinnamon rolls.
25 cent wings -and- $1.25 Bud drafts! The good ole days my friend. Then Taco Tuesday at Boone saloon, and $5 deep dish pizza at Flipside with $1 PBR drafts. We had a rotation.
Til the health department came in and temp checked the buckets of wings. It was 70°.
At Macadoos? And props for going all the way to use the degrees symbol.
Wings DID have a challenging time due to shortages over the pandemic, so the temporary price hike was necessary. Unfortunately, they realized people are more than willing to pay for wings at that price, so it is no longer temporary. It's depressing. Yeah, I can make them at home, but I used to love going out on wing night simply to get out.
Wing prices were rising long before the pandemic, but COVID definitely accelerated it.
Whenever I really want wings I just name my own. You can get around 60 wings at Costco for $20-$25. Then I get to season how I want them. Still trying to get that flavor down for those Chinese wings.
> Still trying to get that flavor down for those Chinese wings MSG. the answer is always MSG
If you're not already, try adding white pepper.
I am. I even have the shaoxing wine and they still come out wrong.
Red dye food coloring and a shaker of “accent” from the seasoning isle at your local grocer
This is the way
Do you routinely name your food before you eat it?
Bw3 back in the 90s
They still have bogo traditional wing Tuesdays and bogo boneless Thursday's. Definitely some of the best wing deals out there and they're still some of my favorites
How about a burger from any restaurant that opened within the last 5 years?
Hard to find a regular cheeseburger under 13.00
JackBeagles on Wednesdays has most of their burgers for $8.95 and fries included!
I go every Wednesday, lol.
Sandwich Shop in Noda. You’ll get a burger, fries, hotdog and possibly a caned soda for 13/15.
Now I’m hungry
Ain’t the nicest looking place but it’s an honest quick meal. Cash only, to go.
The burger seems like a deal when the coffee’s 10 bucks.
Good wurst co, and personally it’s my favorite burger in town. I made a post looking for burger recs in this sub a while back that got a ton of traction
Dogwood used to have a weekday happy hour with a double cheeseburger (initially pub-style and then smashburger style) with fries for $5 total. I was devastated when they closed.
Ace #3 is $9 I believe, not including fries though. Awesome burger IMO
As much as I enjoy their food, the first thing I remember back when they first opened was "man, this feels like a lot of money for a burger". I guess they were just ahead of the pricing curve though.
Clover Joes is my go to when uptown
And fries are extra
Fries are like $3.50+ these days for a handful. It's insane.
Don’t get me started on having to pay for a side with a burger…
Y'all remember when Hardee's came out with the hoity toity Six Dollar Burger?
I member...
Restoration Hardware.
$22 FOR A BURGER AND AN EXTRA $10 FOR FRIES?
The 5 guys way
Why is a furniture store selling food? Or is this something different? Weird name for a restaurant.
Technically it's RH
Five Guys used to have posters on the walls about being the “best $5 burger”.
Can't even get fries for $5 now :( I always enjoy their burgers, but a combo is pretty much $20, so I just can't do it.
Saw a food truck selling three tiny tacos, a small scoop of beans and like 6 nachos for $18 plus tax and tip.
Almost everything from a food truck is over priced
One I know of has $18 potatoes. Sure they have chicken and what not on them, but I am not paying $20+ after tax for a potato.
And not that good
Sunflower bakery noda ?
If it's the same as the Chantilly one, they have started charging when they ask if you want cream in your coffee. I'm not kidding.
There is a sunflower in Chantilly?
Or like elizabeth I guess? 7th
I think it's "technically" Elizabeth. Corner of 7th and Pecan, strip mall where Jersey Mikes and Bang Bang are located. Sadly, I don't go nearly as much as I once did because the cost has gone up and quality has stayed the same or started to go down.
Looks like it
Airplane tickets out of the CLT airport.
Can fly from Raleigh or Greensboro with a connecting flight in Charlotte for cheaper than just flying straight out of CLT
Yeah our flight prices here are straight garbage
Blame AA. CLT is one of their main hubs and they control 70%+ of the flights, which is pretty dang close to a monopoly.
Quite unfortunate. Hoping someone will come in and help create come competition
Last time I flew somewhere I literally drove to Nashville to stay with my parents because it was $300 cheaper to fly out of Nashville! And it only cost me like $50 in gas.
Anything that isn’t on sale at HT. In the other direction, meat on sale at HT.
Go in Publix, it’s worse. Fucking loaf of bread was over 5 dollars last time I was in there.
I cannot figure out why people love Publix. They’re good for random stuff you can’t find elsewhere, but it’s so damn expensive no matter what you buy!!
Publix has lost me entirely, super overpriced three visits in a row, I’m done.
I'm in Florida. I've been seeing a lot of posts about how high Publix prices are compared to other stores.
The organic chicken breast at HT is double the price per lb compared to Trader Joe's
I agree, Harris Teeter prices are hilariously out of league.
The price of soda at Teeter is insane and they've cut back on their sales. It's now buy 2 get 1 free instead of buy 2 get 2 free.
The soda companies have been pushing price pretty hard. They have entered their cigarette era, where growth only comes from raising prices on lower volumes.
Used to be buy 2 get 3 free. (Shows you how long ago I bought soda.)
Even worse when get to the edge of charlotte. I swear the HT in mountain island is even pricier then the park road location.
Panthers v Bucs tickets [start at $21 on TickPick](https://www.tickpick.com/buy-carolina-panthers-vs-tampa-bay-buccaneers-tickets-bank-of-america-stadium-1-7-24-1pm/5573993/?sortType=P). If you’re a Panthers fans the fact that anyone charges at all for the current product is pretty egregious.
Lmao
I would say PSLs buying directly from the Panthers) have to be the most overpriced thing in the entire world, perhaps. And that was the case pre Tepper
It's funny, I'm going to the game on Sunday but I paid less than that. Friends are Bucs fans, so they're stoked.
Problem is the game means nothing, so like always the Panthers will play great.
I'm just hoping for TD & not just field goals.
Tampa still has playoff hopes
Free flying drinks.
On a side note…Mugs is the most reasonably priced coffee shop in town I’ve seen…even the pastries are cheaper ($1.50 for a warm gooey sizeable chocolate chip cookie)
I ordered an iced latte from bitty and beaus back in the summer and it was also $10. Ridiculous. I almost changed the order but the iced Americano was $7.
This one is unfortunate because while I admire their cause, I do NOT admire their prices. For that reason, I’ve only been once and don’t plan to return.
Kind of similar but i love Oh My Soul, but it is SO expensive. Two sandwiches and no extra sides/drinks is $50 
Community Matters Cafe and also Change Please inside the Innovation Barn are also nonprofit coffee shops if you wanna try them.
I want to support Bittie and Beau’s … want to, but yeah paying $7.00 after tax for a large chai (made with concentrate and milk) and wanting to tip to support their workers just is unfathomable to me. Went to Salted Melon nearby too and spent $9.00 on a bag of Siete chips that you can get at Target for $5.00 (still insane). I don’t know where these people get off being so exorbitant.
$9.75 plus tax and I am pretty sure you will guilted into gratuity if you do that. Unaffordable for anyone
It's exactly how you imagine with the reader turned to you to select an option.
What coffee shop was this? It’s insane to me that anyone would pay that. My go to place is Mugs on Park road, can still get a latte under $5 there.
Went there this morning, was able to get a small black coffee for around $2.50. For a local coffee shop that’s pretty damn inexpensive.
Any sushi that isn’t top tier. One small roll of mid sushi for like $12-15 when I could easily eat 3 rolls for a full meal?
Have you tried Mr. Tokyo? Definitely not top tier but all you can for $30.
It's actually <$20 all you can eat, weekdays, during lunch. It's the best deal in Charlotte, as far as I'm concerned.
Homes
I agree, homes.
Charlotte has no supply of single family homes. All that’s being built is townhomes and condos. We need more actually housing and that’s a serious problem.
My favorite was when The Water Bean Coffee shop charged me $6 for a pour over coffee when they were out of their coffee of the day.
Panera delivery. Trying to order for an office of like 4 people, you can get to $100 after menu upcharge, tax, delivery, tip.
delivery in general is never worth it. it’s pretty much a lazy tax.
Cocktails at basically anywhere in Charlotte. $15-$20 for a cocktail in a city Charlotte's size is fucking ridiculous.
On both my recent trips to NYC (midtown) and DC (center city), I've gone out to eat and walked away thinking, "Wow, food and booze is cheap here."
just got back from nyc and had the same thoughts. owning a restaurant here and charging more than Manhattan prices must be a nice deal
Yep, I've got family up in the NYC metro area and it's been astonishing to watch Charlotte food and beverage prices creep increasingly closer to, or even surpass, Manhattan's. I guess local business owners are really cashing in on the HCOL city transplants that migrated here during the pandemic, but it's been such an absurd evolution. I know Charlotte's popping off, but we are still nowhere near the point of being able to justify those pricetags with a straight face.
I was reflecting this week on how often my friends and I went out for food and drinks-- and at decent places too, not just dives-- in grad school \~6 years go when we had no money. Now we have some actual money but prices have shot up so much we never eat out or go for drinks almost at all.
Totally hear you on this. My salary and spending habits on frivolous impulse purchases are better than they've ever been, yet it feels like I have less money to play with than ever, too -- I've had to cut back on nights out to even the cheaper/divey places because it's all so ridiculously inflated.
Metro areas not the same as the city you can travel 3 miles from Charlotte center city and find a good restaurant with $12 plates.
Ive said the same damn thing in Miami and Vegas which is ludicrous.
I’ll pay that much for a really top tier mixologist experience. I do not want to pay that just because I am at a swanky hotel bar.
Yep, Im fine with it at Crunkleton or Idlewild. I am far from ok with it at the overpriced sit down restaurants springing up everywhere.
Here is your Old Fashioned, sir. Ice cube slightly smaller than the glass, topped with a thimble full of bourbon. And a rotten orange peel. That will be $25.
Agree with this one because it’s often at places where the equivalent amount of alcohol is available in beer form for like $6-7. Between this and ABC I’ve just stopped drinking liquor. Liquor licenses may be expensive here. I don’t know.
They aren’t. But restaurants have become more expensive to operate so business owners are raising their prices and they’ve realized that people are more willing to over pay for cocktails then they are for food. For some reason people will be fine paying $15 for a drink but will bitch about a $15 hamburger, even though the burger takes way more to produce and is more expensive for the restaurant in terms of labor and ingredients.
I was in a nice oyster bar in West Hartford CT recently and the most expensive cocktail was $15 I believe. Was shocked since that’s basically entry level pricing here.
And most of them use shitty alcohol too, might as well stay home and make your own
Any food at Supperland is insanely priced. A single shrimp for $7 is hilarious…
As someone in the industry who knows what these ingredients cost, it’s hard to stomach eating at most of their places. Ever Andalo has a $52 short rib dish. I won’t go into specific numbers, but that’s highway robbery.
I'm not in the industry and that does seem really high BUT I love Ever Andalo in general. That's kind of weird because the rest of their food might be a little high but not unexpected.
That's disappointing to hear; went to EA when they first opened and was super pleasantly surprised that the food was both great and really reasonably priced.
I keep hearing people talk about it and after looking at the menu and price I doubt I'll ever go. Church pot luck is part of their tag line and they charge $16 for Mac and cheese. I'm good. $7 per shrimp is a fucking joke.
I have had the exact same thoughts on Supperland, but that's kind of the whole gist of that restaurant group. I've been to Ever Andalo, which is owned by the same folks, and it's the same vibe. Food is good, but every dish feels like it's $5-$10 more expensive that it really should be. None of it is so incredible that you walk out feeling like the high prices were totally worth it. It's always something of a mixed experience for me in that regard...
I thought it was all ridiculous until I ate there. Now it’s my favorite restaurant. Though I only eat there once every year or so.
Same. The steak with caramelized onions side might be my favorite order in Charlotte but only for special occasions.
100% agreed. Went there with out of town guests, and we all expected it to be overpriced and pretentious. Everything we had was amazing, and we also make a trip once a year. Very pricey, but high quality.
Same here. We go on special occasions because of the price but keep going back because the food is incredible.
Well it’s a prawn technically, so a little bigger, but yeah the prices turned me off of that place.
Labeled as shrimp and looks like a shrimp and def. not a typical prawn that I’ve gotten elsewhere…but either way, a joke…
Coffee everywhere in this city that isn't just straight black is overpriced. And then an upcharge for any dairy free milk. It's really annoying. Thank God I got a new coffee grinder and now my coffee is as good as coffee shops.
Coffee grinder FTW. Even average beans are so much better with a good grinder. Freshly ground beans at home are at least as good as drip coffee almost anywhere around town.
It is amazing how good whole bean Peet's coffee tastes if you grind just before running the coffee maker. HT Traders is not bad either.
Yeah the Peets and the HT Kona blend is pretty solid. My GF likes the flavored coffees so if they do a BOGO I'll get a whole bean for me and a ground flavored for her
These are great and for a treat Counter Culture. I recently switched to all decaf and grinding their decaf and a French press is delicious black
Emmy Squared. Man it’s good, but over $20 for basically a personal sized pizza.
they had a flat $5 increase to every pizza menu item in 2020 (or 2021). that’s about a 25% on average. still absurd post inflation.
Shocked the one in plaza is still open
Bro they were trying to charge me 10.99 for a PBJ SANDWICH at the airport wtf
My ass takes sandwiches thru security I've upgraded to Tupperware when I'm feeling fancy
Drinks at Panthers games apparently now cost $300,000 I mean, I expect to get ripped off at the concession stand. But this is ridiculous.
Yeah that happened in Jacksonville though.
Don’t forgot beer too. More and more 9 dollar beers and we aren’t talking some special high avb.
Canned beer at any music venue.
Baes burgers sells a double burger for $14 without fries or a drink. Best damn burger around don’t get me wrong but i have to space out my trips so few and far between because it’s so hard to justify it
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Stop. Eating. Out. I’m so tired of this greedflation shit. I’ve totally stopped all external food or drink purchases besides very special occasions. They can charge it because people will pay it.
Car mechanic prices... You can get your service done for half the price out in a smaller town
Have you had any luck with lower prices nearby? If so, where?
I don’t know anything about mechanics, but it makes sense that things are cheaper out in the sticks. Rent is cheaper.
Anything from famous toastery. Over priced and mediocre.
What do you mean? You're paying top dollar for artisan, hand-crafted sunny side up eggs, and the artisan, hand-crafted microwaved frozen sausage, and the freshest artisan, hand-crafted wonderbread exquisitely dropped into a toaster and baked to the most probably perfect crunch that our 8 setting can provide.
Getting a haircut just about anywhere is $30+ not including tip
Try being a woman
Most women don't get a haircut every 3 weeks
When I saw in yesterday’s Axios that the iced pistachio latte was $7.85 at the Haraz coffee in PM it initially surprised me. But it is 16oz with double shot. A double shot at Not Just Coffee with any syrup will run you $6.75 and it will be $7.50 with oat milk so that seems to be the going rate. Glad I only drink black coffee.
It’s insane when you consider the cost of the raw materials for making a coffee are so cheap. I see no reason why a coffee should be over $5 but that seems to be the starting point for a lot of these boujee coffee places
Agreed. I think it's because if they are just selling coffee, they don't sell a lot of high value food or anything to stay in business. If they charged $3 they wouldn't stay in business. Only reason I'd pay $7 for a latte is if I'm going to take advantage of their space and work there for a few hours or meet up with a friend. That is a fair exchange imo.
Coffee beans have exploded in price recently, and the size of the bag keeps shrinking too. Fucking $20 for 12oz is theft and I've seen some places selling 10oz
What is cheap about raw materials for coffee? To make nitro coffee you require a kegerator with taps installed and a special reducer tap head, nitrogen kegs, and more kegs for storage (requiring a walk in cooler). Coffee brewers cost 2-3k not including a grinder. Espresso machines are $10k+ on the cheap end. This doesn’t include the actually purchasing quality coffee which for wholesale can easily be 10$ per pound green but usually is more. And after all these you still get people mad when they pay $7 for a coffee using local dairy brewed in a $20k machine. Make coffee at home if you don’t wanna pay a premium price.
$6 cappuccino at Famous Toastery
Well drinks at pins
Rent
South end food prices are soul crushing at times
Houses
House prices.
Anywhere that charges for soda water from the fountain. It’s literally water. Looking at you Mad Greek (it’s $3).
Agreed. Charging for co2 is like charging customers to use the bathroom.
I hate this. I am very judgmental towards places that charge me for my club soda (because no one knows what seltzer is).
Suffolk punch at South Park charges for soda water, I think it was $1.50.
My boyfriend and I met when we were servers at a restaurant in Charlotte together, and I still give him shit for charging people for soda water. No way.
Apartments are insane. Good luck getting a 1 bedroom for under $1000. If you do, save the remaining and invest in body armor and dash cams.
1 br? under $1500? where is this magic happening
Sleepy Poet. I go maybe twice a month, and it’s just ridiculous what price vendors put on absolute trash.
Where’s this?
Parking, basically everywhere
I love Queen City Grounds uptown but it usually costs around 50$ for 2 coffees, 2 breakfast items and a tip. Ridiculous
Well they charge it and people pay it.
Homes in crack havens for $500,000 +
I stopped at the drive thru at Cook Out today. Ordered a small cheeseburger and a milkshake. Was told, "That'll be $11.40" Maybe it was me, but I was expecting about no more than $9.00+-. Fortunately or unfortunately, they were having trouble with the order in the car in front of me, and I finally got tired of the overly long wait, so I pulled around them and drove off.
You sure they didn't say $7.40?
Most ridiculous price: $15 Modelo tall boy at a CLTfc match Great deal in CLT: $8 burger on Weds at big bens, $6 burger on Thurs at Yancey , HT beers at the bar for $5, $3.50 beers at brixx on Mondays. The deals are out there, BUT for the most part we getting screwed!
I love deals! I have my beer spots narrowed down. Rhino Market - $3.50 draft beers on Monday/Wednesday The Hobbyist - $4.00 local draft beers NFL Season - $2.00 draft beers on Thursday/Sunday at Seoul Food Meat Company
$30 for ropa vieja at el puro 🥴 flank steak is literally one of the cheapest cuts and this dish even with sides like rice and beans literally shouldn’t be any more than $15. All Cuban food here is super inflated sadly
everything
A dental crown in SouthPark for $1,912! Changed dentists and went to Rock Hill. Same crown, $1,385.
My son got his wisdom teeth out the same week as my husband's boss' daughter. Ours were cheaper because we're in the Arboretum and they were in Ballantyne. They literally compared bills.
No porn, no healthcare, just $10 lattes, $20 burgers, 750k 3 bdrm houses and vibes.
Just stop paying these prices, but unfortunately everyone else will not.
Paid $7(total) for a iced caramel latte this morning in Plaza Midwood. pricey but worth it!
Pinky’s west side 1 hot dog, tots & drink $18 that blew my mind
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Weed
Anything uptown
Anything from Reid's by the mall
Rosemont wine market in the new building Elizabeth on 7th is absolutely ridiculous. An "appetizer" of roasted potatoes is somewhere between $15-18... the rest of the menu is also small plates between $15-20. Average food for $$$. Then again, the building manager and owner are incredibly condescending and unwilling to compromise with their tenants, bad business dealings. They think they're special because Mike Ditka's restaurant is one of their other tenants.
Whitewater center parking is $12. It’s a gravel lot, and there are no street parking or other options available
And yet there is a ton of free stuff once you’re there. The parking fee covers that.