Food at restaurants is marked up thousands of percent to cover costs of buildings, rent, power, human capital. The raw materials to make your food are pennies and are available to the average consumer. This is straight BS. There -are- people that truly have issues that lead them to a homeless condition, but this person is not one of them.
> Food at restaurants is marked up thousands of percent to cover costs of buildings, rent, power, human capital. The raw materials to make your food are pennies and are available to the average consumer.
If you're homeless that's not an option, since you probably lack equipment to cook from scratch.
Now try only ever eating shit food like that for months, years on end, and you're not on holiday wandering around a cool city, it's your life.
Typical COGS on food at a dine in restaurant is 30-40%. It certainly isn't marked up "thousands of percent".
Interesting that you determined all that from reading a single blog post and have no ideal what her diagnosis is. Very classy.
So, in no way is it comparable to your hypothetical of eating out all the time costing as much as your rent.