It never ceases to amaze me how I can go to local mom and pop joints where I live, (near a university) and as a single parent of 4 for 2 damn decades would make a deal with the owners. I will pay you this much a month, whatever you guys eat for dinner make double, I will be by between 4 and 6 to pick it up on the way home from work. During pandemic i paid months in advance. Worked out for everyone. This is America. For 2 decades my kids had homegrown, home cooked meals.

If you think I am making this 💩 up to grab 4 random teenagers and maybe probably some of their friends that you would rely on their parents to get from practice on other days so to be fair 6, grab 6 random teenagers and take them through a Burger King, McDonald's or Taco Bell drive through, then take the same assuming they're not cultural snobs and will eat Korean, Viet Namese. Lebanese or Iraqi food to a mom and pop restaurant and compare the bills and amount of food. Beyond the obvious