I don't understand your point. Feel free to elaborate!

If you mean the Roastery example: it is just one example of "premiums" urban millennials add to their expenditures. Short-Renting a car or ubering around isn't cheap in the long term either.

But while I'm at it: Whenever my first-world-native colleagues discuss things like, whether coffee should be made in an Aeropress or a Hario Syphon, for hours, it usually takes a glimpse towards my second- or third-world born colleagues faces to find confirmation, that this is just first-world nonsense.

In my experience, growing up in the 80s, people went out FAR less than people do today. Food in general was seen in a very different light. Food was just a thing that you did a couple of times a day. There was very little cultural importance placed on it. At least for the people I knew (I did grow up spending a year or two in 9 different cities).

Mostly they did not and cooked at home instead. At least most people most of the time.