The funny part is, not very long ago, breakfast was the cheapest meal you could eat at a restaurant.
I have always ate big if I am taking my breakfast on the road, preferring the diner and a sit down meal with coffee, to the chunked and formed fast food drive by options.
Biscuits and gravy with cheesy grits and eggs, or maybe a slab of ham, eggs, and hash browns in brown gravy... Something of that weight was certainly under 10 bucks with the tip.. Because diner help was cheap, and waitresses of the highest caliber got mornings, because the efficiency was required and the tips were fantastic... Because slinging breakfast has always been a fast moving game - Cheap to do, with lots of fast turnover. Low profit was made up for by high volume and low cost. It's a fast, cheap game, down and dirty.
At the same time, when I would expect a 10-dollar-or-less cost on a monster breakfast, it would cost a fifty to take my lady to a steakhouse, and probably 30 bucks to take her out to the Sizzler or Perkins - with far less volume of food.
The obvious answer is to walk away from diner breakfast.
Its high price has surmounted its usefulness.
Stay home and make your own.
Get together with friends and do breakfast cookouts. Something.
But there is no way I would pay the kind of money all y'all are talking for any experience eating out on the town.
