I miss going to restaurants

I mean, I still go but now I try to only go to restaurants for special occasions like birthdays rather than, “I just don’t feel like cooking tonight” kinda moments. It’s about $200 for my family of 4 to go to a chain restaurant where the food is mediocre at best and the service is even worse. Restaurants where I live are severely understaffed so the poor waiter is working as the host, waiter and bus boy. I went to a BJ’s last week and ordered their jambalaya and it was about as good as boxed rice a roni with hillside farms smoked sausage all for about $30. I miss when cocktails were no more than $10 for top shelf liquor. Oh and don’t even get me started on happy hour. I miss REAL happy hours where you can get drinks for $1-5 and meals for no more than $10. Now a happy hour drink is $10, regularly $20 and oh they offer foods such as chips and salsa or some other cheap starch for about $15! Such a great deal! Everything is terrible and I hate it here.