1 00:00:00,520 --> 00:00:05,880 Speaker 1: It's Night Side with Dan Ray. I'm WBSY, Boston's met Radio. 2 00:00:06,640 --> 00:00:08,480 Speaker 2: Let me just take a moment here very quickly to 3 00:00:08,720 --> 00:00:14,280 Speaker 2: remind all of you that the thirteenth annual Night Side 4 00:00:14,320 --> 00:00:18,919 Speaker 2: Charity Combine. We have our lineup completed, so those of 5 00:00:18,960 --> 00:00:21,480 Speaker 2: you who are even sending in the last couple of 6 00:00:21,600 --> 00:00:26,000 Speaker 2: days requests to be included. We've advertised it for a 7 00:00:26,040 --> 00:00:30,960 Speaker 2: couple of weeks and you know it's a first come, 8 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:34,560 Speaker 2: first served deal. So we will profile about twenty charities 9 00:00:34,600 --> 00:00:38,360 Speaker 2: for you on Tuesday night, less than two weeks from now, 10 00:00:38,400 --> 00:00:42,400 Speaker 2: on the twenty third of December. That is my last broadcast, 11 00:00:43,120 --> 00:00:47,320 Speaker 2: our last broadcast for the year. I will be back 12 00:00:47,440 --> 00:00:52,280 Speaker 2: after New Year's obviously, but I like to end the 13 00:00:52,400 --> 00:00:55,280 Speaker 2: year my broadcast year in those last couple of hours 14 00:00:55,320 --> 00:00:58,840 Speaker 2: from ten to twelve with about twenty great charities. Give 15 00:00:58,920 --> 00:01:02,560 Speaker 2: you an opportunity to find out what great charitable work 16 00:01:02,640 --> 00:01:06,120 Speaker 2: is being done in and around your community. Maybe you 17 00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:08,640 Speaker 2: might want to get involved as a volunteer, maybe you 18 00:01:08,720 --> 00:01:12,280 Speaker 2: might want to get involved as a contributor. There will 19 00:01:12,319 --> 00:01:16,520 Speaker 2: be a plenty of different type charities, big charities, small charities, 20 00:01:16,600 --> 00:01:20,200 Speaker 2: charities you've never heard of before, charities you're very familiar with. 21 00:01:20,680 --> 00:01:23,440 Speaker 2: All of them will be five oh one ce threes 22 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:26,360 Speaker 2: or the equivalent mean everyone, meaning every one of them 23 00:01:26,360 --> 00:01:31,400 Speaker 2: are legitimate charities that would could use some help and 24 00:01:31,440 --> 00:01:34,640 Speaker 2: some assistance. So we will put together that. If you're 25 00:01:34,680 --> 00:01:36,720 Speaker 2: one of the charities that have been in contact with, 26 00:01:37,440 --> 00:01:42,360 Speaker 2: we will contact you late next week, probably Wednesday, Thursday 27 00:01:42,440 --> 00:01:46,520 Speaker 2: or Friday, and we will give you your slot. You 28 00:01:46,560 --> 00:01:51,480 Speaker 2: will be told when. It's all by telephone. In the 29 00:01:51,520 --> 00:01:56,680 Speaker 2: old days, before I started working remotely, we would meet 30 00:01:56,720 --> 00:02:00,680 Speaker 2: in a studio, whether it was at soldiers Field WBZ 31 00:02:01,280 --> 00:02:03,920 Speaker 2: Radio studios on soldiers Field Road, whether it was in 32 00:02:03,960 --> 00:02:07,160 Speaker 2: Medford at the iHeartRadio studios. But for the last few 33 00:02:07,280 --> 00:02:11,280 Speaker 2: years I've been working remotely, so it's all through the 34 00:02:11,320 --> 00:02:14,280 Speaker 2: ease of a telephone. And you'll have about four minutes 35 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:16,880 Speaker 2: in which we will ask you about your mission and 36 00:02:16,919 --> 00:02:19,000 Speaker 2: who you serve and what you do and what help 37 00:02:19,040 --> 00:02:22,160 Speaker 2: you need and all of that, and it goes like clockwork. 38 00:02:22,160 --> 00:02:24,760 Speaker 2: It's like landing twenty planes at Logan Airport. So if 39 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:26,720 Speaker 2: we will give you a window on which we want 40 00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:29,160 Speaker 2: you to be ready, and we would ask you to 41 00:02:29,160 --> 00:02:31,480 Speaker 2: be there with your phone on and when Rob tells 42 00:02:31,520 --> 00:02:35,840 Speaker 2: you you're a minute away, turn the phone down because, 43 00:02:36,320 --> 00:02:39,359 Speaker 2: as all of our callers know, we have a ten 44 00:02:39,440 --> 00:02:42,880 Speaker 2: second delay here on Night Side. We have a ten 45 00:02:42,919 --> 00:02:48,960 Speaker 2: second delay in order for everybody to behave themselves and 46 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:55,480 Speaker 2: not use bad words all of that. But the issue 47 00:02:55,840 --> 00:03:00,920 Speaker 2: that we have with everyone is what I'm saying right 48 00:03:00,960 --> 00:03:04,760 Speaker 2: now will not be broadcast over the air for ten seconds. 49 00:03:05,160 --> 00:03:07,920 Speaker 2: And that is so that if anybody calls up and 50 00:03:08,080 --> 00:03:12,000 Speaker 2: sometimes utters a bad word, we keep our FCC license. 51 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:15,440 Speaker 2: So anyway, enough said on that, Okay, I want to week. 52 00:03:15,600 --> 00:03:21,960 Speaker 2: Last night, we talked for three hours last night about 53 00:03:23,240 --> 00:03:26,919 Speaker 2: a subject that really took off, and that was the 54 00:03:26,960 --> 00:03:30,680 Speaker 2: cannabis cafes which are coming to Massachusetts. And as we 55 00:03:32,080 --> 00:03:36,520 Speaker 2: predicted last night, that vote was taken today by the 56 00:03:36,680 --> 00:03:42,600 Speaker 2: Cannabis Commission here in Massachusetts and they have authorized the 57 00:03:42,720 --> 00:03:47,400 Speaker 2: creation of regulations and you will very soon see cannabis 58 00:03:47,440 --> 00:03:51,960 Speaker 2: cafes or locations where you'll be able to go and 59 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:56,240 Speaker 2: purchase marijuana, marijuana based products, and you'll be able to 60 00:03:56,320 --> 00:03:59,040 Speaker 2: partake of those products. Currently, you can go to a 61 00:03:59,120 --> 00:04:01,880 Speaker 2: dispensary and you can purchase the product and you can 62 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:04,240 Speaker 2: go home and utilize it in the privacy of your 63 00:04:04,240 --> 00:04:08,120 Speaker 2: home alone with friends, family, or whatever. But now you'll 64 00:04:08,160 --> 00:04:13,160 Speaker 2: be able to go out to commercial establishments, which is 65 00:04:13,200 --> 00:04:16,120 Speaker 2: another step. And we'd spent three hours last night. So 66 00:04:16,279 --> 00:04:18,000 Speaker 2: one of the topics that we were going to talk 67 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:20,880 Speaker 2: about last night, and I think it's an interesting topic 68 00:04:20,920 --> 00:04:25,039 Speaker 2: and I hope you will as well, is has the 69 00:04:25,839 --> 00:04:32,839 Speaker 2: increase in a lot of costs associated with COVID. There 70 00:04:32,880 --> 00:04:37,719 Speaker 2: has been inflation that was roaring during much of the 71 00:04:37,880 --> 00:04:44,000 Speaker 2: four years of President Biden, and all of those inflationary 72 00:04:44,040 --> 00:04:48,080 Speaker 2: pressures have not been tamped down as yet. Some have. 73 00:04:48,480 --> 00:04:52,840 Speaker 2: Gasoline prices are down, which is good. Hopefully home heating 74 00:04:52,880 --> 00:04:56,720 Speaker 2: oil prices will also be down, because when gas prices 75 00:04:56,760 --> 00:05:00,160 Speaker 2: go down, home heating oil prices can go down. One 76 00:05:00,200 --> 00:05:05,640 Speaker 2: thing that really probably hasn't gone down are some food items. 77 00:05:06,480 --> 00:05:10,839 Speaker 2: There are some food items that went up, and the 78 00:05:10,880 --> 00:05:14,440 Speaker 2: businesses that sell those food items in grocery stores have 79 00:05:14,640 --> 00:05:19,680 Speaker 2: kept those items, in my opinion, up unfairly. The only 80 00:05:19,720 --> 00:05:21,400 Speaker 2: way to deal with that is to not to buy 81 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:23,680 Speaker 2: the items. I've told I think all of you that 82 00:05:23,920 --> 00:05:28,040 Speaker 2: when I shop at whether it's Roach Brothers or Market 83 00:05:28,080 --> 00:05:32,840 Speaker 2: Basket or Shaws, those are the three grocery stores that 84 00:05:32,880 --> 00:05:38,040 Speaker 2: I go to for different reasons. Shaws is convenient, Roach 85 00:05:38,120 --> 00:05:41,719 Speaker 2: Brothers has some very good quality products that I seek, 86 00:05:42,200 --> 00:05:46,080 Speaker 2: and market Basket is the most reasonable, the most efficient, 87 00:05:46,640 --> 00:05:49,880 Speaker 2: the most consumer friendly. I wish I had a market 88 00:05:49,920 --> 00:05:54,320 Speaker 2: Basket as close to me were that I could walk to. 89 00:05:54,839 --> 00:05:57,880 Speaker 2: I would spend all my time at market Basket, with 90 00:05:57,920 --> 00:06:01,520 Speaker 2: some exceptions in terms of Roach brother But putting that aside, 91 00:06:01,760 --> 00:06:03,960 Speaker 2: there are items that I used to buy and items 92 00:06:03,960 --> 00:06:06,400 Speaker 2: that I liked. I had the discipline I'm not. On 93 00:06:06,520 --> 00:06:12,080 Speaker 2: principle the prices of some items should go down. They haven't, 94 00:06:12,400 --> 00:06:16,000 Speaker 2: and on principle I can afford the extra dollar or so. 95 00:06:16,440 --> 00:06:21,280 Speaker 2: But on principle I have said no now. James Rojas 96 00:06:21,440 --> 00:06:27,920 Speaker 2: yesterday found a story that apparently diners across the country 97 00:06:27,960 --> 00:06:30,279 Speaker 2: as well as here in New England, have been flocking 98 00:06:30,320 --> 00:06:34,080 Speaker 2: to what they call happy hours, not happy hours, but 99 00:06:34,320 --> 00:06:39,600 Speaker 2: happy hours, a period of time when there are apps 100 00:06:39,680 --> 00:06:44,279 Speaker 2: at special prices, appetizers that's the short for apps. Also, 101 00:06:44,760 --> 00:06:47,160 Speaker 2: there are a lot of people who like to go 102 00:06:47,200 --> 00:06:49,800 Speaker 2: out to eat. One way in which you can save 103 00:06:49,880 --> 00:06:52,600 Speaker 2: money is not to go out to eat, because going 104 00:06:52,640 --> 00:06:56,960 Speaker 2: out to eat is in of itself expensive, that beer 105 00:06:57,080 --> 00:07:01,200 Speaker 2: that can be in your refrigerator. When you think about it, 106 00:07:01,240 --> 00:07:04,159 Speaker 2: you can get a case of very decent beer for 107 00:07:04,200 --> 00:07:08,919 Speaker 2: about a dollar or less for a beer if you 108 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:11,880 Speaker 2: go to a store, if you go to a restaurant, 109 00:07:12,080 --> 00:07:14,040 Speaker 2: what's that beer going to cost you? At least eight 110 00:07:14,080 --> 00:07:17,520 Speaker 2: bucks in all probability, and maybe in some cases a 111 00:07:17,520 --> 00:07:19,760 Speaker 2: little more, maybe a little less, but for the most part, 112 00:07:19,800 --> 00:07:21,760 Speaker 2: it is a multiple of what you buy if you 113 00:07:21,800 --> 00:07:23,800 Speaker 2: go to a liquor store and bring home a case 114 00:07:23,800 --> 00:07:26,120 Speaker 2: of beer and put any refriserator. Same way with a 115 00:07:26,120 --> 00:07:29,400 Speaker 2: glass of wine. You buy a fine bottle of wine 116 00:07:29,560 --> 00:07:33,440 Speaker 2: for ten or twelve dollars, we have three or four 117 00:07:33,680 --> 00:07:37,000 Speaker 2: glasses of wine. Out of that cost you, you know, two, three, 118 00:07:37,120 --> 00:07:41,680 Speaker 2: four dollars a glass. Tops you try doing that at 119 00:07:41,680 --> 00:07:43,720 Speaker 2: a restaurant, that same glass of wine is going to 120 00:07:43,800 --> 00:07:46,800 Speaker 2: be fourteen or sixteen dollars. It's a multiple of what 121 00:07:46,880 --> 00:07:50,000 Speaker 2: you would pay at home. But another way in which 122 00:07:50,040 --> 00:07:53,800 Speaker 2: people are starting to try to continue to go to 123 00:07:53,840 --> 00:07:58,640 Speaker 2: restaurants and save some money is what James Rojas was 124 00:07:58,680 --> 00:08:02,000 Speaker 2: reporting about yesterday. So let's first of all, play one 125 00:08:02,040 --> 00:08:05,400 Speaker 2: of James's stories from yesterday again. We were going to 126 00:08:05,480 --> 00:08:08,920 Speaker 2: do this story yesterday, but we were overwhelmed by the 127 00:08:08,960 --> 00:08:11,840 Speaker 2: amount of people who are interested in the cannabis cafes 128 00:08:11,840 --> 00:08:14,200 Speaker 2: the arrival of cannabis cafes on both sides of the 129 00:08:14,280 --> 00:08:16,280 Speaker 2: argument yesterday. By the way, so let's go to cut 130 00:08:16,320 --> 00:08:16,800 Speaker 2: a please. 131 00:08:16,880 --> 00:08:20,640 Speaker 3: Rob Ian and Michael have no problem spending over one 132 00:08:20,720 --> 00:08:22,920 Speaker 3: hundred dollars here at South Street Diner. 133 00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:24,920 Speaker 2: What aren't we any today? 134 00:08:24,720 --> 00:08:29,280 Speaker 4: My work gave us one hundred dollars just for travel 135 00:08:29,320 --> 00:08:32,120 Speaker 4: and fair we got a spread today. 136 00:08:32,320 --> 00:08:34,920 Speaker 3: But this high dollar dining experience appears to be on 137 00:08:34,960 --> 00:08:37,559 Speaker 3: the decline, as a recent study found more people are 138 00:08:37,559 --> 00:08:42,280 Speaker 3: buying appetizers over pricier entrees, a twenty percent increase this year. 139 00:08:42,480 --> 00:08:44,720 Speaker 5: Some friends that are a little more budget conscious to. 140 00:08:45,280 --> 00:08:47,880 Speaker 3: Order appetizers or like share it with their partner, even 141 00:08:47,920 --> 00:08:49,280 Speaker 3: though it may not be the best bang for you 142 00:08:49,360 --> 00:08:52,200 Speaker 3: about but more just like going out with friends and 143 00:08:52,240 --> 00:08:53,880 Speaker 3: like trying to spend the least a mount as possible. 144 00:08:54,080 --> 00:08:57,360 Speaker 3: Restaurants may start leaning into this direction, offering more sereble 145 00:08:57,400 --> 00:09:02,479 Speaker 3: menu options and bundles at South Street. James Rojas WBZ 146 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:04,320 Speaker 3: Boston Snooze Radio. 147 00:09:05,120 --> 00:09:08,400 Speaker 2: I Know South Street Diner A hundred bucks at South 148 00:09:08,600 --> 00:09:11,600 Speaker 2: street and a diner, kind of a fancy diner. I 149 00:09:11,640 --> 00:09:14,520 Speaker 2: get that, but that's a lot. Look. One of the 150 00:09:14,559 --> 00:09:18,079 Speaker 2: ways I'd love to know if you have changed your 151 00:09:19,320 --> 00:09:22,640 Speaker 2: dining habits. Meaning now, there are some people who go 152 00:09:22,720 --> 00:09:25,960 Speaker 2: out every weekend, there are some people who go out 153 00:09:26,640 --> 00:09:30,000 Speaker 2: once a weekend, once a month, and there are some 154 00:09:30,080 --> 00:09:33,000 Speaker 2: who might go out only on special occasions. It doesn't matter, 155 00:09:33,640 --> 00:09:36,440 Speaker 2: but I would love to know, irrespective of whether you 156 00:09:36,480 --> 00:09:41,520 Speaker 2: are a weekly a diner, you know, a restaurant visitor, 157 00:09:42,720 --> 00:09:45,120 Speaker 2: if you are somebody who goes out more than once 158 00:09:45,160 --> 00:09:48,040 Speaker 2: a week, there are some people out there who are 159 00:09:48,080 --> 00:09:50,440 Speaker 2: able to go out three or four nights a week. Okay, 160 00:09:50,559 --> 00:09:55,000 Speaker 2: that's fine. My question is have you changed your ordering habits? 161 00:09:56,040 --> 00:10:00,199 Speaker 2: Are you the type of person who was saying, look, 162 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:03,760 Speaker 2: look the entree prices have gone up at my favorite restaurant. 163 00:10:04,640 --> 00:10:07,240 Speaker 2: I still want to go to my favorite restaurant, but 164 00:10:07,360 --> 00:10:09,959 Speaker 2: instead of paying for two entrees, if you're going out 165 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:13,680 Speaker 2: with your spouse or your partner, we might order one 166 00:10:13,920 --> 00:10:18,160 Speaker 2: entree and one app. And the app is probably going 167 00:10:18,240 --> 00:10:23,920 Speaker 2: to be less expensive than a full entree. Uh and 168 00:10:23,920 --> 00:10:26,959 Speaker 2: and and you know, save a little bit. There's other 169 00:10:27,040 --> 00:10:31,400 Speaker 2: ways to save and still enjoy dining experience. If you 170 00:10:31,480 --> 00:10:35,120 Speaker 2: live close to the restaurant that you're gonna go to, 171 00:10:35,200 --> 00:10:38,520 Speaker 2: die go to dine at, you're gonna have a glass 172 00:10:38,520 --> 00:10:42,320 Speaker 2: of wine before you go. Uh. And or if your 173 00:10:42,400 --> 00:10:45,400 Speaker 2: choices like mine would be a light beer, have a 174 00:10:45,480 --> 00:10:48,360 Speaker 2: light beer at home. And particular, if you're going somewhere 175 00:10:48,400 --> 00:10:52,000 Speaker 2: this casually casual, and then you order water with you drink, 176 00:10:52,040 --> 00:10:55,080 Speaker 2: you have eliminated the bar bill. It's another way. Or 177 00:10:55,320 --> 00:10:58,800 Speaker 2: as James Rojas's person is talking about, they'll order an 178 00:10:58,840 --> 00:11:03,720 Speaker 2: app and one entree, split an app, split an entree. Okay, 179 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:07,080 Speaker 2: so instead of having again, depending upon where you go, 180 00:11:07,200 --> 00:11:09,880 Speaker 2: I recently were at an Olive Garden, one of my 181 00:11:09,920 --> 00:11:14,199 Speaker 2: favorite restaurants. The entrees have got a little more expensive there, 182 00:11:14,280 --> 00:11:17,160 Speaker 2: but you can't beat Olive Garden in terms of the 183 00:11:17,280 --> 00:11:21,319 Speaker 2: humongous salad and the bread sticks. Most restaurants now, particularly 184 00:11:21,360 --> 00:11:24,280 Speaker 2: the fancier restaurants, if you'd like to have some bread 185 00:11:24,280 --> 00:11:27,720 Speaker 2: with your meal, you have to ask at a minimum, 186 00:11:27,840 --> 00:11:31,160 Speaker 2: and in most cases it's going to cost you. But 187 00:11:31,520 --> 00:11:34,400 Speaker 2: that's a choice. That's a choice. So I'm going to 188 00:11:34,520 --> 00:11:37,880 Speaker 2: just open up the phone lines. The general question is 189 00:11:38,280 --> 00:11:44,600 Speaker 2: has your restaurant dining experience, and we're not talking You 190 00:11:44,640 --> 00:11:50,000 Speaker 2: don't have to be talking about the top tier, most 191 00:11:50,080 --> 00:11:54,520 Speaker 2: expensive restaurants in Boston in the back Bay, the restaurants 192 00:11:54,559 --> 00:11:58,280 Speaker 2: where you're going to spend two hundred dollars for two 193 00:11:58,840 --> 00:12:02,040 Speaker 2: at a minimum, maybe more. Now I'm talking about wherever 194 00:12:02,080 --> 00:12:05,679 Speaker 2: you go, what's your favorite restaurant, and if it's reasonably priced, 195 00:12:06,679 --> 00:12:09,440 Speaker 2: what can you get there? Give us an idea. There 196 00:12:09,520 --> 00:12:13,040 Speaker 2: are ways, there are ways to still enjoy yourself, and 197 00:12:13,160 --> 00:12:16,240 Speaker 2: I think eventually some of these prices are going to 198 00:12:16,320 --> 00:12:17,360 Speaker 2: come down. I hope. 199 00:12:17,480 --> 00:12:17,640 Speaker 6: Now. 200 00:12:17,679 --> 00:12:20,520 Speaker 2: Some restaurants are never going to come back down because 201 00:12:20,559 --> 00:12:23,560 Speaker 2: they have enough clientele who will walk in through the 202 00:12:23,600 --> 00:12:26,000 Speaker 2: door every Friday, every Saturday, or for that matter, every 203 00:12:26,080 --> 00:12:28,800 Speaker 2: night of the week, and they will order the top 204 00:12:28,840 --> 00:12:31,720 Speaker 2: of the the top of the line items on the menu. 205 00:12:32,720 --> 00:12:37,000 Speaker 2: Not me, maybe not you, But there's enough people out 206 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:41,160 Speaker 2: there so that the expensive restaurants will always stay. I 207 00:12:41,200 --> 00:12:43,800 Speaker 2: think the restaurants that always seem to go away are 208 00:12:43,800 --> 00:12:45,600 Speaker 2: the ones that you find, which are the small, little 209 00:12:45,640 --> 00:12:47,880 Speaker 2: restaurants where you get a really decent meal at a 210 00:12:47,880 --> 00:12:51,119 Speaker 2: decent price. That's the one that disappears. That's the frustration 211 00:12:51,280 --> 00:12:54,920 Speaker 2: anyway six one, seven, two, five, four ten thirty six 212 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:59,200 Speaker 2: one seven nine three one ten thirty. And and if 213 00:12:59,200 --> 00:13:02,760 Speaker 2: you have a favorite restaurant that you'd like to share 214 00:13:02,960 --> 00:13:08,800 Speaker 2: with us, and you're willing to risk sharing the restaurant, 215 00:13:09,080 --> 00:13:10,880 Speaker 2: love to hear from you on this one, because we're 216 00:13:10,880 --> 00:13:15,320 Speaker 2: always looking for new restaurants to go to. Six one, seven, two, five, 217 00:13:15,360 --> 00:13:18,319 Speaker 2: four ten thirty six one seven nine three one ten thirty. 218 00:13:18,520 --> 00:13:23,719 Speaker 2: And if restaurants have generally become too expensive, I'd love 219 00:13:23,760 --> 00:13:26,160 Speaker 2: to know what are you doing. I mean, obviously, the 220 00:13:26,160 --> 00:13:29,680 Speaker 2: the least expensive way to eat is to is to 221 00:13:29,720 --> 00:13:32,800 Speaker 2: cook at home. It's as simple as that. But most 222 00:13:32,840 --> 00:13:37,600 Speaker 2: of us, I think, enjoy going out to a restaurant 223 00:13:38,040 --> 00:13:42,240 Speaker 2: on occasion. And whatever the occasion is, or how frequent 224 00:13:42,240 --> 00:13:44,720 Speaker 2: that occasion is, it's up to all of us. You 225 00:13:44,800 --> 00:13:48,160 Speaker 2: have the numbers, I got the microphone. I'd love to 226 00:13:48,160 --> 00:13:50,000 Speaker 2: share it with you. Give us a call. Coming back 227 00:13:50,040 --> 00:13:50,560 Speaker 2: on Night Side. 228 00:13:51,480 --> 00:13:54,360 Speaker 1: You're on Night Side with Dan Ray. I'm telling you 229 00:13:54,559 --> 00:13:56,400 Speaker 1: bas Boston's news Radio. 230 00:13:57,040 --> 00:14:00,880 Speaker 2: All right, So we're talking about guiding and of course 231 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:04,839 Speaker 2: dining as it applies to the economy. Let me start 232 00:14:04,880 --> 00:14:08,640 Speaker 2: it off with Tim in Woulbern see what his dining 233 00:14:08,679 --> 00:14:11,760 Speaker 2: habits have changed or if they stayed the same, tim 234 00:14:11,840 --> 00:14:13,240 Speaker 2: welcome next on nightside. 235 00:14:14,040 --> 00:14:16,520 Speaker 7: That's to take my car dan, mine have changed. I 236 00:14:16,600 --> 00:14:19,680 Speaker 7: go to the Cafe Estra Drill in Burlington. I've been 237 00:14:19,680 --> 00:14:22,280 Speaker 7: going there a couple of years every Saturday. I have 238 00:14:22,360 --> 00:14:24,520 Speaker 7: this lady friend that I go out with. 239 00:14:25,720 --> 00:14:28,240 Speaker 2: That's let me let me ask you. I'm not familiar. 240 00:14:28,280 --> 00:14:30,160 Speaker 2: That is that a high end place? I mean, you're 241 00:14:30,200 --> 00:14:32,200 Speaker 2: dropping some money at a place like that. It sounds 242 00:14:32,240 --> 00:14:34,240 Speaker 2: pretty expensive, it is. 243 00:14:34,280 --> 00:14:36,280 Speaker 7: But what I get? I get an order of mass 244 00:14:36,280 --> 00:14:41,160 Speaker 7: potatoes and one Budweiser beer. It cost me twelve dollars. Really, 245 00:14:41,280 --> 00:14:43,800 Speaker 7: the girl a ten dollar tip? Twelve bucks? 246 00:14:44,280 --> 00:14:44,680 Speaker 2: Wow? 247 00:14:45,200 --> 00:14:48,240 Speaker 7: Okay, I'm near every Saturday and see my friend Givanna. 248 00:14:48,720 --> 00:14:52,000 Speaker 2: Now what is your friend? She's not ordering hopefully just 249 00:14:52,120 --> 00:14:53,240 Speaker 2: mashed potatoes, so she. 250 00:14:55,840 --> 00:14:56,520 Speaker 5: Yes, she does. 251 00:14:56,600 --> 00:15:00,000 Speaker 7: I just get an order of massed potatoes in one 252 00:15:00,080 --> 00:15:02,120 Speaker 7: Budweiser in a bottle, no glass. 253 00:15:02,320 --> 00:15:04,640 Speaker 2: Right, that's what you are about? What? What? What does 254 00:15:04,680 --> 00:15:07,280 Speaker 2: your companion get? What does she normally order? 255 00:15:08,280 --> 00:15:12,840 Speaker 7: I'm near, always alone because I go out with us, So. 256 00:15:12,840 --> 00:15:15,240 Speaker 2: You pay for yours and she pays for hers. What's 257 00:15:15,280 --> 00:15:15,680 Speaker 2: going on? 258 00:15:16,640 --> 00:15:21,160 Speaker 7: I go there alone. I'm alone, I'm single. She works there. 259 00:15:21,320 --> 00:15:23,920 Speaker 2: Oh she works there. Oh, I get it. I thought 260 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:26,920 Speaker 2: she was your date there. I'm sorry, Tim, Okay, gotcha. 261 00:15:27,280 --> 00:15:30,360 Speaker 7: So she works the right every now and then I 262 00:15:30,400 --> 00:15:32,160 Speaker 7: do bring a date, but I go out with her 263 00:15:32,240 --> 00:15:34,720 Speaker 7: now and then she's a she's a real nice girl. 264 00:15:34,920 --> 00:15:37,200 Speaker 2: Oh okay, Well that's good to know. Well that's great, Tim, 265 00:15:37,280 --> 00:15:40,080 Speaker 2: Not only that you you found you found a place 266 00:15:40,080 --> 00:15:43,360 Speaker 2: where you're comfortable and you're not spending a lot of money. 267 00:15:43,680 --> 00:15:45,480 Speaker 2: That's not that's a great idea. 268 00:15:46,400 --> 00:15:50,680 Speaker 7: Maybe maybe building The building is one of the nicest 269 00:15:50,720 --> 00:15:54,280 Speaker 7: buildings other than in the people are great. From A 270 00:15:54,440 --> 00:15:58,000 Speaker 7: to Z, it's great. Also. The last time I talked 271 00:15:58,040 --> 00:16:01,120 Speaker 7: with you, right, you sent me a tote day and 272 00:16:01,200 --> 00:16:01,880 Speaker 7: I got it. 273 00:16:02,960 --> 00:16:07,240 Speaker 2: Excellent, excellent, it's good quality. I hope, I hope you 274 00:16:07,360 --> 00:16:10,480 Speaker 2: use it. I don't know you. You you know you 275 00:16:10,480 --> 00:16:12,760 Speaker 2: you get thrown over your shoulder when you're going to 276 00:16:12,800 --> 00:16:14,640 Speaker 2: the gym or something, to put your gym stuff in there, 277 00:16:14,680 --> 00:16:15,360 Speaker 2: you'll be all set. 278 00:16:16,240 --> 00:16:18,760 Speaker 7: How about this. I was at maca basset and moving 279 00:16:18,840 --> 00:16:21,000 Speaker 7: today and I had it over my shoulder. I brought 280 00:16:21,040 --> 00:16:24,000 Speaker 7: about seven things. It looks like a bucks. 281 00:16:24,280 --> 00:16:26,280 Speaker 2: You bet you. It's a nice it's a good quality 282 00:16:26,320 --> 00:16:29,640 Speaker 2: tote bag, and it's got it's canvas, and it's a 283 00:16:29,720 --> 00:16:32,720 Speaker 2: heavy duty canvas. So look, I'm delighted that you're out there. 284 00:16:33,360 --> 00:16:35,680 Speaker 2: Thanks Tim. Always great to hear your voice. We will 285 00:16:35,680 --> 00:16:38,440 Speaker 2: talk before Christmas. But if in the unlikely event we 286 00:16:38,480 --> 00:16:40,960 Speaker 2: don't marry Christmas, same to you. 287 00:16:41,080 --> 00:16:41,680 Speaker 7: Thank you, Dan. 288 00:16:41,920 --> 00:16:45,080 Speaker 2: All right, Thank you Tim. Appreciate it. Six one, seven, two, five, 289 00:16:45,120 --> 00:16:48,840 Speaker 2: four ten thirty six one seven, nine thirty. One of 290 00:16:48,880 --> 00:16:51,200 Speaker 2: the ways that I think it's important when we talk 291 00:16:51,240 --> 00:16:54,000 Speaker 2: about the economy is to bring it home. We can 292 00:16:54,240 --> 00:16:56,560 Speaker 2: I can bring on some great economists on here, and 293 00:16:56,600 --> 00:16:59,200 Speaker 2: we can talk about all sorts of issues. Uh, you 294 00:16:59,240 --> 00:17:02,240 Speaker 2: know what the did yesterday. But a lot of people 295 00:17:02,280 --> 00:17:05,760 Speaker 2: glaze over at that when when you talk about the 296 00:17:05,880 --> 00:17:09,200 Speaker 2: economy you talk about. What I like to talk about 297 00:17:09,280 --> 00:17:11,639 Speaker 2: is the rubber where the rubber meets the road. And 298 00:17:11,760 --> 00:17:16,000 Speaker 2: for me, it's always a grocery store because grocery prices. 299 00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:19,080 Speaker 2: Some prices are up, some prices are down. I was 300 00:17:19,119 --> 00:17:23,119 Speaker 2: delighted a week or so ago that the egg prices 301 00:17:23,800 --> 00:17:27,400 Speaker 2: at Shaws, where I where I can where I will 302 00:17:27,400 --> 00:17:31,879 Speaker 2: buy items like that to ninety nine. I remember a 303 00:17:31,920 --> 00:17:33,840 Speaker 2: couple of well not a couple of weeks, a couple 304 00:17:33,880 --> 00:17:36,080 Speaker 2: of months ago. They were much more expensive than that. 305 00:17:36,320 --> 00:17:43,760 Speaker 2: So egg prices they're down, most most prices are, I 306 00:17:43,800 --> 00:17:47,359 Speaker 2: think are coming down. In terms of grocery stores. I've 307 00:17:47,400 --> 00:17:51,600 Speaker 2: noticed that milk prices have come down a little bit. 308 00:17:52,200 --> 00:17:55,560 Speaker 2: Like to see them come down more. Anything that deals 309 00:17:55,600 --> 00:18:01,760 Speaker 2: with chocolate, chocolate syrup, chocolate chip cookies, Oreo cookies, Hershey's 310 00:18:01,880 --> 00:18:06,320 Speaker 2: chocolate chocolate prices have gone up, So we can talk 311 00:18:06,359 --> 00:18:09,560 Speaker 2: about that, but I'd like to focus on your your 312 00:18:09,720 --> 00:18:13,640 Speaker 2: dining experiences. That's what I would like to focus on. 313 00:18:13,960 --> 00:18:16,120 Speaker 2: Six one, seven, two, five, four to ten thirty six 314 00:18:16,200 --> 00:18:19,080 Speaker 2: one seven, nine, three one ten thirty. James Rojas was 315 00:18:19,119 --> 00:18:22,280 Speaker 2: out talking about it yesterday and apparently there is a 316 00:18:23,840 --> 00:18:28,639 Speaker 2: trend where some people are pushing back from the table. 317 00:18:28,880 --> 00:18:33,679 Speaker 2: They're not doing an appetizer in an entree for for 318 00:18:33,920 --> 00:18:39,200 Speaker 2: everybody they're they're they're maybe splitting one entree or they're 319 00:18:39,200 --> 00:18:43,280 Speaker 2: having split one entree and split an appetizer. So love 320 00:18:43,359 --> 00:18:45,399 Speaker 2: to know what your experience is. No shame in that 321 00:18:45,520 --> 00:18:47,199 Speaker 2: at all. And I don't care if you're going to 322 00:18:47,200 --> 00:18:50,919 Speaker 2: the most expensive or the least expensive I'd love to know. 323 00:18:51,240 --> 00:18:55,240 Speaker 2: I'd also love to know. I'm not an officionado of 324 00:18:55,320 --> 00:19:00,280 Speaker 2: McDonald's and Taco bell in places like that. It's just 325 00:19:00,320 --> 00:19:05,160 Speaker 2: not my style. Okay, I'm not working out when I 326 00:19:05,200 --> 00:19:07,800 Speaker 2: was working and moving around. Yeah, those are the restaurants 327 00:19:07,840 --> 00:19:12,600 Speaker 2: you take advantage of. I'm more of an olive garden guy. 328 00:19:13,480 --> 00:19:18,200 Speaker 2: I like that style restaurant where it may not be 329 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:22,639 Speaker 2: the top of the line restaurant, but the food's pretty decent. 330 00:19:22,960 --> 00:19:25,120 Speaker 2: Six one, seven, two, five, four to ten thirty six 331 00:19:25,160 --> 00:19:28,320 Speaker 2: one seven nine. Don't make me work too hard on this. 332 00:19:28,720 --> 00:19:31,639 Speaker 2: All of you have had dining experiences. I'd love to 333 00:19:31,720 --> 00:19:34,720 Speaker 2: know if there's a trend joined the conversation coming back 334 00:19:34,720 --> 00:19:36,040 Speaker 2: on Nightside. 335 00:19:36,280 --> 00:19:41,000 Speaker 1: You're on night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's news. 336 00:19:40,880 --> 00:19:46,600 Speaker 2: Radio, So we're talking about your dining habits. I'm not 337 00:19:46,600 --> 00:19:50,720 Speaker 2: talking about dining at home. I'm talking about dining at 338 00:19:50,720 --> 00:19:53,399 Speaker 2: whatever restaurants you normally go to. You might go to 339 00:19:53,800 --> 00:19:56,920 Speaker 2: expensive restaurants, you might go to middle of the road restaurants, 340 00:19:56,960 --> 00:20:00,879 Speaker 2: or you might go to restaurants that are very reasonable. 341 00:20:02,240 --> 00:20:05,240 Speaker 2: The restaurant experience can be just as good at a 342 00:20:05,320 --> 00:20:08,399 Speaker 2: middle of the road or an olive Garden. Then it 343 00:20:08,440 --> 00:20:11,359 Speaker 2: can be at a high end restaurant. Sometimes it's even 344 00:20:11,359 --> 00:20:14,040 Speaker 2: more relaxing. Let me go to Jack and Newton see 345 00:20:14,080 --> 00:20:17,679 Speaker 2: what he has to say. Jacks, have your dining experience 346 00:20:17,720 --> 00:20:20,520 Speaker 2: has changed over the last few years or are you 347 00:20:20,640 --> 00:20:22,240 Speaker 2: back to where you were pre covid. 348 00:20:23,320 --> 00:20:27,560 Speaker 6: Well, it's really prophetic about what you're saying, because just 349 00:20:27,680 --> 00:20:31,399 Speaker 6: yesterday I was at Madriano is little literaly right behind 350 00:20:31,400 --> 00:20:32,200 Speaker 6: the park Plaza. 351 00:20:32,400 --> 00:20:35,000 Speaker 2: Love maggianos I do have. I wish I got them 352 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:37,320 Speaker 2: more often. It's a great Italian restaurant. 353 00:20:37,480 --> 00:20:40,840 Speaker 6: A wonderful Italian restaurant. But the prices, you know, or 354 00:20:40,960 --> 00:20:45,560 Speaker 6: you know, thirty seven dollars, forty seven dollars for so 355 00:20:45,720 --> 00:20:51,280 Speaker 6: I got an appetizer for only it was sixteen dollars 356 00:20:51,440 --> 00:20:55,040 Speaker 6: while attacks ends up closer to aten. There was three 357 00:20:55,800 --> 00:21:00,840 Speaker 6: meat balls of waygoul way gu you know beef. 358 00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:02,679 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's expensive. 359 00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:03,520 Speaker 7: That's expensive. 360 00:21:03,880 --> 00:21:04,600 Speaker 2: That's good beef. 361 00:21:04,680 --> 00:21:08,520 Speaker 6: Yeah. I had three meals out of the meat bows. 362 00:21:10,920 --> 00:21:12,240 Speaker 2: So what did you do get him to go? 363 00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:14,280 Speaker 6: Yeah, to go? 364 00:21:14,280 --> 00:21:17,080 Speaker 2: Good for you? Good for you? So it might so? 365 00:21:17,400 --> 00:21:20,879 Speaker 2: So yeah, how much did what was it? Twenty five bucks? 366 00:21:20,880 --> 00:21:22,720 Speaker 2: By time you had tax and tip and all that. 367 00:21:23,440 --> 00:21:27,800 Speaker 6: No, six seven seventeen dollars and thirty seventeen dollars and 368 00:21:27,880 --> 00:21:29,800 Speaker 6: thirty cents, so you would. 369 00:21:29,680 --> 00:21:31,720 Speaker 2: You were talking with three meals. It was about six 370 00:21:31,760 --> 00:21:33,679 Speaker 2: dollars a meal. You went home and you boiled some 371 00:21:33,720 --> 00:21:35,040 Speaker 2: spaghetti apasta on that. 372 00:21:36,359 --> 00:21:38,040 Speaker 6: Yeah, good for you, jack. 373 00:21:38,240 --> 00:21:42,639 Speaker 2: That's that's that's that's a that's a great example of 374 00:21:43,760 --> 00:21:46,359 Speaker 2: using your head. A lot of people get intimidated they 375 00:21:46,400 --> 00:21:49,040 Speaker 2: go into a restaurant. Now I haven't been in Manchiano's 376 00:21:49,080 --> 00:21:51,000 Speaker 2: in a couple of years, but I used to like 377 00:21:51,040 --> 00:21:53,680 Speaker 2: it a lot. I'll like it a little less if 378 00:21:53,200 --> 00:21:57,399 Speaker 2: the prices have gone up and have stayed up. But 379 00:21:57,440 --> 00:21:59,520 Speaker 2: this is there's a bunch of restaurants you can walk 380 00:21:59,560 --> 00:22:03,280 Speaker 2: in and if you're there with some other person and 381 00:22:03,320 --> 00:22:05,520 Speaker 2: you're picking up the tab, you can get to three 382 00:22:05,560 --> 00:22:08,520 Speaker 2: feet two get a hundred dollars pretty easily. Because if 383 00:22:08,560 --> 00:22:13,560 Speaker 2: there's one drink and a couple of entrees, and who knows, 384 00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:17,040 Speaker 2: if there's a small dessert, you're over ding ding ding 385 00:22:17,119 --> 00:22:19,280 Speaker 2: ding ding. You're over one hundred dollars before you know it. 386 00:22:20,359 --> 00:22:22,440 Speaker 6: Well, I tell you, I know, if you're with your 387 00:22:22,480 --> 00:22:26,399 Speaker 6: girlfriend or whatever, Yeah, do that. You can't go in 388 00:22:26,480 --> 00:22:29,000 Speaker 6: and just have an appetizer to go. 389 00:22:29,640 --> 00:22:32,760 Speaker 2: No, no, absolutely no, we get that. Okay, we get that. 390 00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:38,560 Speaker 2: But it's just when you you know, we were at 391 00:22:38,560 --> 00:22:40,840 Speaker 2: an olive garden, as they say, a couple of weeks 392 00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:47,800 Speaker 2: ago with my wife, our son, and grandson and it 393 00:22:47,920 --> 00:22:50,120 Speaker 2: was just perfect, you know, I mean, it's it's it's 394 00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:52,600 Speaker 2: the place you want to bring a you know, a 395 00:22:52,680 --> 00:22:55,320 Speaker 2: three and a half year old, because they're always going 396 00:22:55,400 --> 00:22:58,280 Speaker 2: to make noise. You're gotta make sure that nothing gets 397 00:22:58,359 --> 00:22:59,880 Speaker 2: knocked over on the day. 398 00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:05,760 Speaker 6: But I bet your advertiser wasn't much less than eighteen seventeen, 399 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:09,680 Speaker 6: sixteen dollars anyway. And Margiano's as a place now you're 400 00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:11,399 Speaker 6: not you're not going to bring a three year ow. 401 00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:14,879 Speaker 2: Yeah right, well they were. I'll tell you the the 402 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:18,440 Speaker 2: olive garden entrees were up. All of them were over 403 00:23:18,520 --> 00:23:22,880 Speaker 2: twenty twenty twenty one. But again, you get so much 404 00:23:22,920 --> 00:23:25,200 Speaker 2: salad there, and they if. 405 00:23:25,280 --> 00:23:30,200 Speaker 6: Dono is a high class place, only sixteen so many dollars, 406 00:23:31,600 --> 00:23:35,400 Speaker 6: even less if it's a if it's pickles or something else, 407 00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:39,720 Speaker 6: really achieved, could be a little as twelve dollars for well, 408 00:23:40,200 --> 00:23:41,040 Speaker 6: look with it. 409 00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:45,119 Speaker 2: With three three meatballs and then whatever you had to 410 00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:47,560 Speaker 2: spend it. That that's you did well. 411 00:23:48,440 --> 00:23:50,960 Speaker 6: Meatballs. I don't know if you ever had way to be, 412 00:23:51,160 --> 00:23:52,199 Speaker 6: but it's so tender. 413 00:23:52,440 --> 00:23:56,720 Speaker 2: Yep, that's high end, tigh end. Jack, you did well. 414 00:23:56,960 --> 00:24:02,800 Speaker 2: You did well. I'm happy for uh. And uh? What 415 00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:05,280 Speaker 2: what is your favorite restaurant? If you and I were 416 00:24:05,280 --> 00:24:09,240 Speaker 2: going out to dinner some night? What and and uh? 417 00:24:09,359 --> 00:24:11,359 Speaker 2: I said to you, Jack, let's go to your favorite restaurant. 418 00:24:11,359 --> 00:24:12,720 Speaker 2: I got to pick up the tab. Where would you 419 00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:13,080 Speaker 2: want to go? 420 00:24:14,040 --> 00:24:16,160 Speaker 6: Well, I'd like O'Hara's. 421 00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:18,960 Speaker 2: And I like O'Haras, And O'Haras is a good middle. 422 00:24:18,720 --> 00:24:22,800 Speaker 6: Of the road restaurant. I like it a lot. 423 00:24:23,520 --> 00:24:25,800 Speaker 2: Yeah, but that's that's still middle of the road. We 424 00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:27,600 Speaker 2: used to go there a lot. We had some friends 425 00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:29,679 Speaker 2: who used to enjoy that. That was one of their 426 00:24:29,720 --> 00:24:34,040 Speaker 2: favorite restaurants. I don't want to lose restaurants like that. 427 00:24:34,119 --> 00:24:37,760 Speaker 2: Those are the restaurants, uh, family owned restaurants. I hope 428 00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:40,719 Speaker 2: O'Haras is still a family owned restaurant where you can 429 00:24:40,760 --> 00:24:43,919 Speaker 2: win and you walk out, and you you go in 430 00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:46,160 Speaker 2: there on a Saturday night or a Sunday night, and 431 00:24:46,200 --> 00:24:48,960 Speaker 2: you say, okay, that was well worth whatever it was. 432 00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:52,560 Speaker 2: Great call, great call. Thanks Jack. We'll talk soon. Okay, 433 00:24:53,320 --> 00:24:56,239 Speaker 2: thank you, Thanks buddy. Yeah, I'd love to know what 434 00:24:56,280 --> 00:25:00,320 Speaker 2: your favorite restaurant is, particularly if it's a re simply 435 00:25:00,359 --> 00:25:02,800 Speaker 2: price restaurant. I mean, if they're gonna tell me you 436 00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:06,479 Speaker 2: you want to pick some restaurant that Uh yeah, there's 437 00:25:06,560 --> 00:25:09,400 Speaker 2: there's a restaurant downtown at the top of Beacon Hill 438 00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:13,879 Speaker 2: called Moo m oh oh, and there a couple of times. Uh, 439 00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:19,000 Speaker 2: pretty expensive, lovely, don't get me wrong, high end. Uh, 440 00:25:19,080 --> 00:25:21,399 Speaker 2: you are going to order even if you order an 441 00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:24,920 Speaker 2: app and one entree, it's going to cost you. Let 442 00:25:24,920 --> 00:25:29,680 Speaker 2: me go next to CG and Cambridge CG as your 443 00:25:29,760 --> 00:25:32,800 Speaker 2: dining experience has changed in the last couple of years. 444 00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:36,840 Speaker 4: No, we have some great guys that know where to 445 00:25:36,960 --> 00:25:40,960 Speaker 4: eat and at good prices. We went there was seven 446 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:43,359 Speaker 4: of us went over to wind Thrip. 447 00:25:44,320 --> 00:25:44,480 Speaker 6: Uh. 448 00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:47,000 Speaker 4: We all live all all around Greater Boston, so we 449 00:25:47,040 --> 00:25:49,639 Speaker 4: have to drive there and we meet it one spot 450 00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:54,320 Speaker 4: locally and end up maybe two cars or two three cars. 451 00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:57,199 Speaker 4: And we went to a place. It used to be 452 00:25:57,280 --> 00:26:04,480 Speaker 4: called Rassinis. It's changed hands, but it was the cooks 453 00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:08,120 Speaker 4: that worked at that restaurant are still there and they're 454 00:26:08,119 --> 00:26:11,719 Speaker 4: now owners of the restaurant, so the food is just 455 00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:15,359 Speaker 4: as good as it was. The guy that opened it 456 00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:18,040 Speaker 4: opened it at like forty years ago and he hit 457 00:26:18,119 --> 00:26:21,080 Speaker 4: his late seventies and he retired, so he sold it 458 00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:25,920 Speaker 4: to his cooks and the food was fabulous. We give 459 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:29,160 Speaker 4: exceptionally good tips. Who were there for like two hours. 460 00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:31,879 Speaker 4: There's seven of us, and we always give a ten 461 00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:36,040 Speaker 4: dollars tip per person, and we did a fabulous They 462 00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:38,920 Speaker 4: did a fabulous job. They had one meal that I love, 463 00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:43,159 Speaker 4: especially if you're the right tide to see. It's a 464 00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:49,600 Speaker 4: shrimp scampy. I had six large pieces of shrimp. The 465 00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:55,080 Speaker 4: food was cooked perfectly, The gallic bread was toasted perfectly. 466 00:26:55,840 --> 00:26:58,960 Speaker 4: We all got our food at the same tang. It 467 00:26:59,080 --> 00:27:01,560 Speaker 4: was all distributed at the same time to seven people 468 00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:05,399 Speaker 4: with seven different meals. And because the three cooks cooked 469 00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:07,280 Speaker 4: able food together and thought it all over at the 470 00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:10,040 Speaker 4: same time, they treated us wonderfully. 471 00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:10,760 Speaker 2: Uh. 472 00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:15,280 Speaker 4: We didn't have any drinks, any alcohol of beer when 473 00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:17,720 Speaker 4: we go to eat, we don't so as we're driving, 474 00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:22,960 Speaker 4: absolutely and we can all afford, you know, like once 475 00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:25,560 Speaker 4: a month we do that and then another time of 476 00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:27,600 Speaker 4: the month, we go to one of our friend's houses. 477 00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:31,440 Speaker 4: He's hit a basement that looks like a nightclub, and 478 00:27:31,640 --> 00:27:34,000 Speaker 4: his family don't even use it anymore because it's his 479 00:27:34,119 --> 00:27:38,199 Speaker 4: family is so large, it's not used enough. So we 480 00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:42,919 Speaker 4: go to his house once once a month and he 481 00:27:43,040 --> 00:27:43,840 Speaker 4: cooks for us. 482 00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:46,679 Speaker 2: So no, So the restaurant before we leave. The restaurant, 483 00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:49,119 Speaker 2: you said it was Raffines in Winthrop. 484 00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:53,720 Speaker 4: In Winthrop, it's no longer in Raffinies. It's it's changed 485 00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:55,439 Speaker 4: names that I can't recall the name right. 486 00:27:55,560 --> 00:27:57,919 Speaker 2: Well, that's okay. People will know where it is if 487 00:27:57,960 --> 00:27:59,520 Speaker 2: they're up in the right. 488 00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:02,920 Speaker 4: Across this right across the three from Winsorth Peach. 489 00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:06,720 Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, no, I know exactly. I know exactly where 490 00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:09,679 Speaker 2: you're talking about. Well, that's a good one. And uh 491 00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:12,119 Speaker 2: and it sounds to me like how much were you 492 00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:15,840 Speaker 2: paying for entrees there? Roughly on average? 493 00:28:16,119 --> 00:28:19,520 Speaker 4: Oh? You know, everything was mixed together. Like when I 494 00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:22,320 Speaker 4: had the firm scampia, they offered me saling and I 495 00:28:22,520 --> 00:28:26,160 Speaker 4: want to have salad. I did have the toasted garlic bread. Yeah, 496 00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:31,159 Speaker 4: and I was one of the most expensive meals. It 497 00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:32,679 Speaker 4: came to twenty nine dollars. 498 00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:34,720 Speaker 2: Okay, so that's what I'm saying. So you're talking about 499 00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:37,680 Speaker 2: twenty twenty five dollars entrees, depending upon which of my 500 00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:38,440 Speaker 2: tall less. 501 00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:40,560 Speaker 4: Some of them were less than that. Okay, to the 502 00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:43,560 Speaker 4: seven people, four of them took half of their meal 503 00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:46,160 Speaker 4: home with them. The meals. The amount of food that 504 00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:47,680 Speaker 4: you grow up was more than you could eat. 505 00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:52,200 Speaker 2: That's always a great sign of a restaurant. Trust beyond that. Yeah, CJ, 506 00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:55,880 Speaker 2: I pretty good seaching absolutely that you know what, And 507 00:28:55,920 --> 00:28:58,920 Speaker 2: I'm sure that there's some people who are listening tonight 508 00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:01,600 Speaker 2: who know exactly where you talking about and what happens 509 00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:04,680 Speaker 2: is sometimes even with a good restaurant, you forget about 510 00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:07,040 Speaker 2: it until you mentioned and you say, you know, why 511 00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:09,400 Speaker 2: haven't I gone there lately? So yeah, I'm with you. 512 00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:10,480 Speaker 2: I'm totally with you. 513 00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:12,720 Speaker 4: I think the name of the news, the new name 514 00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:14,840 Speaker 4: of the rest of it is Della Paraiso. 515 00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:19,640 Speaker 2: Well, if I can spell Raffini's, I can't spell della Farraiso. 516 00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:25,040 Speaker 4: So time even remember, right, CG. 517 00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:27,880 Speaker 2: Thank you much man. Always great to hear your voice. Thanks, 518 00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:29,640 Speaker 2: great suggestion. 519 00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:32,920 Speaker 4: All right, holiday and Merry Christmas. 520 00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:36,200 Speaker 2: Merry Christmas to you as well. Thanks CJ. CG. We're 521 00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:38,040 Speaker 2: going to take a very quick break here, and I 522 00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:40,720 Speaker 2: got wide open lines, which always bugs me. So look, 523 00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:45,200 Speaker 2: we're talking about something anybody can talk about. I'd love 524 00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:48,400 Speaker 2: to know what your dining experiences have been lately. Have 525 00:29:48,560 --> 00:29:53,440 Speaker 2: you changed your dining experiences and perhaps have gone to 526 00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:59,000 Speaker 2: less uh pretentious, less expensive restaurants as a consequence of 527 00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:02,880 Speaker 2: what's going on with no shame in that. How do 528 00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:08,560 Speaker 2: you maximize your money at restaurants these days? And the 529 00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:12,720 Speaker 2: piece that we played from James Rojas earlier, people are 530 00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:18,040 Speaker 2: now ordering as opposed to two entrees. Some people have said, well, 531 00:30:18,080 --> 00:30:20,480 Speaker 2: we'll do one entree, maybe split that and we'll split 532 00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:23,600 Speaker 2: an app. Uh. It's probably good for your waistline and 533 00:30:23,640 --> 00:30:26,080 Speaker 2: it's probably good for your wallet. But i'd love to 534 00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:29,320 Speaker 2: know what your favorite restaurant is. We can change topics 535 00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:33,960 Speaker 2: at eleven, but this is something that that I committed 536 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:37,240 Speaker 2: to yesterday and I'm doing it now. And if you 537 00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:39,360 Speaker 2: don't want to call that, your choice, but i'd love 538 00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:42,600 Speaker 2: to hear a suggestion or two from you. Six one, seven, two, 539 00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:46,800 Speaker 2: five thirty, six seven, nine, three, one, ten thirty. Last night, 540 00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:50,080 Speaker 2: people couldn't get through because the lines were so hot 541 00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:55,360 Speaker 2: on the cannabis cafes. Look, this is an opportunity. Feel 542 00:30:55,360 --> 00:30:57,560 Speaker 2: free to join the conversation. Be right back here on 543 00:30:57,680 --> 00:30:59,719 Speaker 2: night Side. Right after that, you have the numbers. 544 00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:06,640 Speaker 1: The way night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio, 545 00:31:07,120 --> 00:31:07,640 Speaker 1: we got. 546 00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:09,160 Speaker 2: The phone lines going a little bit. I thank you 547 00:31:09,280 --> 00:31:13,000 Speaker 2: very much, folks. Let us go to George and Westwood. George, 548 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:17,440 Speaker 2: you were next on Nightside. Has your dining practices changed? 549 00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:25,280 Speaker 5: Not at all, Dan, not pre pandemic, not post pandemic. 550 00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:29,040 Speaker 5: First of all, I just want to clarify something by McDonald's. Dan. 551 00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:31,920 Speaker 5: I'm a Greek immigrant. I came to this country when 552 00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:35,640 Speaker 5: I was nine with my parents, Dante. I had to 553 00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:40,360 Speaker 5: eat my mother's cooking twenty four five, So growing up 554 00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:42,360 Speaker 5: for me, McDonald's was gourmet food. 555 00:31:42,680 --> 00:31:43,760 Speaker 2: Yeah, I've got you. 556 00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:44,840 Speaker 6: Said, AFC. 557 00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:46,000 Speaker 5: Please understand that. 558 00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:49,040 Speaker 2: No, I totally get it. Look, I remember when I 559 00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:53,840 Speaker 2: was young and the nineteen cent Hamburgers were a treat. 560 00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:57,400 Speaker 2: Trust me on that. Okay, Yeah, I thought it was 561 00:31:57,440 --> 00:31:59,480 Speaker 2: great because you were eating out. No. 562 00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:03,520 Speaker 5: No, I was always a Bertucci guy, but food caality 563 00:32:03,560 --> 00:32:06,280 Speaker 5: went down, so I stopped at for a bit over 564 00:32:06,320 --> 00:32:06,720 Speaker 5: a year. 565 00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:11,640 Speaker 2: You know, let me say, Bertucci's has had big problems. Uh, 566 00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:18,160 Speaker 2: I just I'm fearful we're going to lose Bertucci's. I 567 00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:20,680 Speaker 2: know that they've reorganized and all of that. There's one 568 00:32:20,680 --> 00:32:23,400 Speaker 2: in West Roxbury that we avail ourselves of every once 569 00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:26,800 Speaker 2: in a while. But it used to be it used 570 00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:28,760 Speaker 2: to be better. I don't know why why they let 571 00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:32,160 Speaker 2: it go away. I don't know if the bean counters 572 00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:35,680 Speaker 2: came in and decided to it's not what it used 573 00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:37,160 Speaker 2: to be. Yeah, go right ahead. I didn't mean. 574 00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:37,720 Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah. 575 00:32:37,760 --> 00:32:39,600 Speaker 5: Only the bread is the same. Only the bread is 576 00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:43,040 Speaker 5: the same with Bertucci's. Nothing else but Uh, in the summertime, 577 00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:45,760 Speaker 5: we were down the Cape and Mashby. We either go 578 00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:51,480 Speaker 5: to epic Oyster and Falmouth or to Shippers in Yarmouth. 579 00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:54,200 Speaker 5: Or if we go to mashb commerce, who might go 580 00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:57,720 Speaker 5: to the Greek restaurant or twenty Italian restaurant or even 581 00:32:58,120 --> 00:33:02,800 Speaker 5: the Japanese restaurant. When I'm up in Westwood, Uh, basically 582 00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:06,880 Speaker 5: we only go out on the holidays with a family. 583 00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:10,240 Speaker 5: And let me tell you, Dan, we we read about 584 00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:12,160 Speaker 5: this in the Times, read about it in the Globe, 585 00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:16,960 Speaker 5: about family, you know, having political discussions. Well it happened 586 00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:20,200 Speaker 5: this It happened this Thanksgiving with me, Dan, uh, we 587 00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:24,400 Speaker 5: Trump supporters, we talk in a civilized matter, but the 588 00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:27,280 Speaker 5: liberal stuff barking like animals. It happened to me this 589 00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:31,640 Speaker 5: Thanksgiving with an in law. Well guess what, Dan, this Christmas, 590 00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:34,960 Speaker 5: we're going out to a restaurant with my family, Okay, 591 00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:38,000 Speaker 5: And all I can say is I don't even look 592 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:38,960 Speaker 5: at the prices. 593 00:33:39,320 --> 00:33:44,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, who was that? You had the argument? Was 594 00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:46,680 Speaker 2: it a cousin twice removed? Or was a. 595 00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:49,160 Speaker 5: Cousin's wife and he did not put and he did 596 00:33:49,160 --> 00:33:53,520 Speaker 5: not put her in place a cousin's wife, Dan, Okay, 597 00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:55,960 Speaker 5: George did not put her in place. 598 00:33:56,080 --> 00:33:58,760 Speaker 2: We'll talk about political battles that I'm going and I'm 599 00:33:58,760 --> 00:34:00,480 Speaker 2: gonna want you to call in, but we'll let her 600 00:34:00,520 --> 00:34:01,520 Speaker 2: off the hook for tonight. 601 00:34:01,560 --> 00:34:04,880 Speaker 5: Okay, absolutely, absolutely. 602 00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:07,200 Speaker 4: Going back to foods Okay, like I said, you know, 603 00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:07,880 Speaker 4: like I say, the. 604 00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:12,200 Speaker 5: Good Lord bless me, Dan. So basically, sometimes the wine 605 00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:14,960 Speaker 5: hits two or three hundred dollars, it is what it is, Dan, 606 00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:17,239 Speaker 5: You know, but I don't go I don't go out 607 00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:18,239 Speaker 5: that often. That's the thing. 608 00:34:20,640 --> 00:34:24,320 Speaker 2: You gotta adjust. And guess what if we all adjusted, 609 00:34:24,360 --> 00:34:25,759 Speaker 2: the prices would come down. 610 00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:29,920 Speaker 5: It's a simple and one last thing. Then about a 611 00:34:29,920 --> 00:34:34,040 Speaker 5: couple of months ago, I started doing fasting water only 612 00:34:34,040 --> 00:34:37,319 Speaker 5: in coffee only, black coffee only fasting. I do that. 613 00:34:38,160 --> 00:34:40,319 Speaker 5: I do that twice. I'm up now, Dan, either three 614 00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:44,920 Speaker 5: or four days. Okay. There's two things special things about 615 00:34:44,920 --> 00:34:48,439 Speaker 5: that versus kittosis, when you start burning fat because you'ren't 616 00:34:48,440 --> 00:34:50,920 Speaker 5: having no cops to burn. And the second thing is 617 00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:55,439 Speaker 5: a prophagy, when your cells revitalize, the good cells eat 618 00:34:55,440 --> 00:34:58,279 Speaker 5: the bad cells out of the body. And then that 619 00:34:58,440 --> 00:35:01,920 Speaker 5: adds life. It has years to your life. It has 620 00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:03,160 Speaker 5: years to your life. 621 00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:04,960 Speaker 2: Excellent, George, excellent. 622 00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:08,279 Speaker 5: Good And I lost seventeen pounds. I'll fine the last 623 00:35:08,280 --> 00:35:09,880 Speaker 5: two months, man, good for you. 624 00:35:10,080 --> 00:35:12,719 Speaker 2: Keep it off. Now, keep it off. Okay, that's right. 625 00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:15,960 Speaker 5: Well I will I put some back on when I 626 00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:21,120 Speaker 5: study it again. But the graph slow. Let's the graph 627 00:35:21,239 --> 00:35:23,319 Speaker 5: goes down. It just goes down. 628 00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:25,799 Speaker 2: You go to the right direct. George, Thank you much, 629 00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:27,800 Speaker 2: my friend. We'll talk again. Call more off and I 630 00:35:27,960 --> 00:35:29,280 Speaker 2: love to call. Thanks. 631 00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:31,399 Speaker 4: Yes, sir, all right, Well how. 632 00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:35,239 Speaker 2: Much we got here? Rob? How much time? Okay, I'm 633 00:35:35,239 --> 00:35:37,160 Speaker 2: not thirty seconds. I'm not going to cram a call. 634 00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:40,360 Speaker 2: I'm going to make a deal here. Joel, Maureen Warren, 635 00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:43,799 Speaker 2: and Ali stay right there. I will get to all 636 00:35:43,840 --> 00:35:46,440 Speaker 2: of you right after the news at the top of 637 00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:48,919 Speaker 2: the hour. I thank you for calling in, and we'll 638 00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:52,160 Speaker 2: stick with this subject and maybe we might get another 639 00:35:52,239 --> 00:35:55,800 Speaker 2: hour out of it. But Joel, Maureen Warren and Ali, 640 00:35:55,920 --> 00:35:58,000 Speaker 2: you guys stay there. I appreciate your call, and we'll 641 00:35:58,000 --> 00:35:59,880 Speaker 2: be back on night Side right after this