As an American this is my biggest issue with living here . Good food is very expensive and hard to find . Then you have to tip . The other countries I visit have many more privately owned restaurants than chains or franchises , and the cost is typically much lower . In the US there are mainly fast food chains and restaurants like TGI Fridays which is pretty similar to fast food . My solution has been avoiding all that shitty greasy food from chain restaraunts and only eating at little family owned foreign restaurants . 24 hour Pho shop , afghan places , Ethiopian , and Peruvian are my favorites . <| sep |> Hell yeah ! like who would ever suspect that a fan facing the wrong direction would cause 100 degrees ? !?