The Lockhorns by Bunny Hoest and John Reiner for February 12, 2025

Cash? C’mon, Leroy, at least use a credit card if you don’t have Venmo or Google Pay

I like cash. No service fees , interest ,pin #s, or overdrafts here is money give me food done.

Are they sharing that one box of fries and that one soda??

One foot facing spending the evening broke….

What happened to " change back from your dollar " ?

The cheapest alternative is no food at all: Fast food.

and ten bucks was an expensive lunch

For a short time McD’s food jingle was “hamburger, fries and a coke and change for a dollar”.

Yeah, I remember. Last week I used a coupon and got two double bacon cheeseburger and two fries and two drinks for ONLY $20.

Anymore, restaurants and places are giving cash discounts and adding a service fee on plastic.

When I worked at McDonalds as a teenager, a hamburger was $0.89 and that was 1969

Blame it on $18 minimum wage. That money has to come from somewhere. And yes, cash is still king. Credit Cards and electronic payments lead to massive debt.

It still is the cheapest option. Have you seen what all the other restaurants charge?

From today’s Comics Curmudgeon:

Inexpensive compared to what, Leroy? Eating at a “nice” restaurant? It still is! Eating at home? It never was! No, you’ve just decided to make Loretta feel bad because she begged to go out to eat somewhere, anywhere for once. Isn’t it cruel enough that you’re forcing her to split a single order of fries with you? Why can’t you be more like the guy in the background, who sincerely appreciates all the fast food industry’s deep bench of food scientists have done in terms of creating meal-like experiences suffused with the proper combinations of chemicals to activate the exact same part of your brain that reacts to cocaine?