[speaker001:] okay where do you enjoy dining out
[speaker002:] oh I generally go to the quickie places just because they're cheap
[speaker001:] yes do you have children
[speaker002:] uh we have four but most of them are gone now so there there might be but we were taking you know uh four five and six people out
[speaker001:] ah yes that makes a difference doesn't it uh-huh what area of the country do you live in
[speaker002:] yes I'm in Texas
[speaker001:] yes I am too
[speaker002:] and we lived we lived in Ohio prior to this oh
[speaker001:] so I did too I'm from the Dayton area
[speaker002:] uh we were up near Cleveland yeah
[speaker001:] ah
[speaker002:] but I look for service even at the quickie places type things uh I don't like to go to the drive-thrus because sometimes they get your order wrong and then you're stuck and it's a pain to have to
[speaker001:] uh-huh that's right
[speaker002:] stand there and see what it is before you leave so I really don't like the drive-thrus that much I I like to go and eat there
[speaker001:] yes
[speaker002:] but I would say service uh atmosphere and whether the food is good on on going out I like steaks so we try to hit those places when we can
[speaker001:] when we travel we look for Wendy's because we have kids and my husband and I like getting the salads or the lighter meals and then that way they can get their burgers and fries and we can have a salad bar
[speaker002:] um-hum yeah
[speaker001:] so sometimes we drive for a couple hundred miles until we find a Wendy's because it's all either McDonald's or Dairy Queens but
[speaker002:] uh yeah and in in in the countries unless it's a large city I guess Dairy Queen and Wal-Mart are their main that's what you find right
[speaker001:] right that's right I know
[speaker002:] my husband likes um Dairy Queens he likes their milk shakes and their chili cheese dogs I guess so he's a fan of of Dairy Queen and and we'll go even in town here at times just as a a change although
[speaker001:] uh-huh uh-huh
[speaker002:] I'm not that excited about it it we've eaten we eat out so much it's gotten so I don't like to really eat any place but yet I hate to cook food at home
[speaker001:] oh
[speaker002:] so that might be why I look for inexpensive places just because we're eating out probably five
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] nights a week maybe or we eat junk food at home
[speaker001:] um yeah
[speaker002:] uh now that my husband
[speaker001:] so what are some of your your favorite inexpensive places
[speaker002:] oh we'll go to them all we sort of take turns and and we uh I'm sort of favor the ones if I have a coupon we can go there and if not we can't because it's cheaper so mine is monetarily I guess strongly monetarily
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] based uh we'll go get pizza and uh at Little Caesar's although the kids prefer Domino's
[speaker001:] oh we are Little Caesar fans here that's where we always go
[speaker002:] right but it's just a lot cheaper than than Domino's so that's we go to Grandy's quite a bit I would say
[speaker001:] yes we like Grandy's too
[speaker002:] McDonald's uh we've sort of been off of that for a while and no particular reason and I I maybe we avoided Wendy's the last few years because our daughter worked there and she never wanted us show up there
[speaker001:] oh
[speaker002:] so I don't uh we don't go there that much
[speaker001:] where do you go if you like to have a nice meal out or a big meal
[speaker002:] a nice meal oh
[speaker001:] where you go for steaks
[speaker002:] it's usually when we're out of town and I'll order steak or steak and lobster combined
[speaker001:] ah uh-huh
[speaker002:] so that it's really not in town
[speaker001:] ah you ever been to Houston's on Beltline
[speaker002:] no
[speaker001:] that's where we go to get steaks they have a teriyaki steak there and when we have something to celebrate we head to Houston's they don't take reservations and you wind up waiting about an hour
[speaker002:] um-hum um-hum
[speaker001:] but the food is good and they've got a nice patio area that you can wait and get something to drink unless you get there at five o'clock then you can go right through
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] but they have real good signature salads there and nice steaks so that's our nice place to go we don't usually take the kids when we go there
[speaker002:] don't well we don't go out that much I guess well I guess we do go out without kids we're usually picking things up quickly though and just we just don't
[speaker001:] yes
[speaker002:] dwell on food too much and uh with my husband traveling he can get all he needs for that during the week going to those places so it it doesn't really matter to him he'd probably just like to stay home
[speaker001:] right that's right yeah that's the way with my husband he's gone during the week and likes to eat at home on the weekends and I've been eating at home all week long with the kids and would like to go out somewhere
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] so we have a conflict of interests on the weekends
[speaker002:] well I think our I I never have liked to cook food but I think it all began eating out when we had uh the boys in in different uh baseball on baseball team it was mainly baseball teams and my husband would coach
[speaker001:] right yes
[speaker002:] so we were never home at the same time and I'm not one that's going to fix you know the meal at two o'clock in the afternoon so they can eat it all day whenever they're there if they're not there in between five and six well then I guess we don't eat today or you go you know you fend for yourself you go somewhere else
[speaker001:] uh-huh right yep
[speaker002:] so that you know that really snowballed when we got down here when I started to sub make money I went oh well I'll just sub to