Eating out no longer feels worth the price — chains collapsed on value and quality

Pain point

People feel priced out of casual/fast food; portion shrink, quality decline, and $15 mediocre meals. Recurs with general economic anxiety.

Signal

Moderate-strong — 1.2K post with broad "not worth the price anymore" consensus; reinforced indirectly by the economy/gas-price framing in the 3K approval-rating thread (cost-of-living is the cross-thread theme). Per-comment scores not rendered.

Opportunity

"Worth It?" — a value-per-dollar restaurant index: crowd-reported price-vs-portion-vs-quality scores, shrinkflation tracking on chain menu items over time, and a "cheaper local equivalent to this chain" finder. Monetize via local restaurant promos. Feasibility: quick MVP (scrape chain menu prices over time = free content/PR engine), hard to scale UGC.

Evidence

• Restaurant chain fell off
• economy/approval thread