In this piece by Jane Dornbusch, she is a writer/class notes editor at the Phillip Academy, in the article it state that the cost of a meal at a mid-scale chain restaurant is less than that of a comparable meal cooked at home only by $2 to $3. Jane Dornbusch argued that “A 10-ounce rib-eye dinner at Outback Steakhouse, with soup, salad, and asparagus, is apparently $2.53 cheaper at the restaurant than at home”, says a research study. At an Outback Steakhouse meal, wrote Bhardwaj, was $17.99 at the restaurant, but at home it would cost $20.52 to prepare. Many people don't cook for one, and there is still no way on this earth that someone couldn't make that Outback meal at home for way less than $20. In the research study the meal included both
