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Speaker 1: For some going out to eat is a treat. Well

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Speaker 1: for others who's oven as a thick layer of dust,

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Speaker 1: it's a way of light.

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Speaker 2: I take out sometimes when I'm at school, but mostly

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Speaker 2: I bring food from home.

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Speaker 1: Americans are cutting back, and that seems to be the

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Speaker 1: case in Boston as well.

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Speaker 2: I go to school downtown. It's very expensive. I do

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Speaker 2: not want to spend that every single day when I'm

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Speaker 2: at class or when I go to class.

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Speaker 1: A recent poll from the research group Yugo found that

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five, nearly forty percent of Americans say

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Speaker 1: they're dining out less, a majority of which say it's

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Speaker 1: because menu prices are getting pricier.

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Speaker 3: I can see that. We see a lot of added

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Speaker 3: quote unquote taxes, gratuity.

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Speaker 1: Anita lives in the West End and says she only

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Speaker 1: goes out about once a week and will really only

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Speaker 1: pay for delivery if it's something she can't walk to,

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Speaker 1: like her favorite type place in Back Bay.

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Speaker 3: But if it's close by, like there's a few places

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Speaker 3: close by, we'll go and.

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Speaker 1: Pick it up in Back Bay. I'm a freedman. Wb Z,

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Speaker 1: Boston's news radio