The Real Reason Steakhouses Are Disappearing

Do you still fancy a steakhouse for a big, important meal?

We quit buying steak meals at steakhouses twenty years ago when I started learning how to cook a steak better than they did.

I grew up in the 70s, in a household with many kids supported by one working father and a stay-at-home mother. To make ends meet my mother made everything from scratch. Potatoes and vegetables was grown in the backyard. A lot of fish, picked berries and wild game put in the freezer every fall. Supplemented us the whole winter. Restaurants was almost out of the question. My parents had zero disposable income. They still took us out to eat once a month. Although exiting for a kid, the food was crappier than at home. Later in life I asked my mother why they took us out to eat at all, when they really could not afford it. "So you kids would learn how to dress well, behave well, and show excellent table-manners in an unfamiliar setting at other peoples places". She was right. Those lessons were more important than the food.

Because grillin a fat steak is better at home and cheaper

When you see vegan protesters outside you know it's a good restaurant.

Steakhouses are not disappearing. Shitty “relics of the 90’s” restaurants are, though.

The chains they mention are kind of shit. Sorry, when I think "Steakhouse" I do not think Ponderosa or Outback, and I think people are staying away from them for the same reason the stay away from Appleby's, TGI Friday's etc. GOOD local steakhouses are still popular; it's hard to get into many without a reservation.

Outback, ponderosa, etc... Are in no way considered a real a steakhouse!

Come to Texas, there's a new steakhouse opening on every corner seems like.

I love a good steak but the cost is cheaper if you do it at home, so you can get more for your money. Funny how some price hikes are due to not enough rain, but when rain returns to areas later, the prices never go down. It's like there's a one-way check valve on prices.

calling Ponderosa a steakhouse is like calling McDonalds a gourmet burger joint.

and the real reason #1 is the silent decline of the american middle class, exactly those that dine at steak restaurants.

I go way back with steakhouses, before the chain stores came along. They always had animated neon signs depicting a guy in a chef's hat tending a big steak on an open fire. The soft glow of the neon revealed a packed parking lot. You knew right then, you're in the right place.

Disappearing because they are over priced and usually over cooked steaks.  I'll buy my steaks at Costco and grill them ten times better than these steak houses can.   Plus for my $40-50 at Costco, I can get 5-6 good sized NY Strips at least 1" thick.  I get 5+ meals for the price of one at the steakhouse.

Steakhouses are NOT disappearing. Chain restaurants are shifting to the much easier to scale and more profitable QSR (Quick Service Restaurant) business model. This whole video is based on a complete fallacy not at all supported by actual reality. The notion that consumer demand for steak is disappearing is an utterly preposterous lie.

Maybe trash chains are closing , but legit steakhouses in major cities on the come up .

Come to Texas, most steakhouses here are packed 24/7, I recommend eating at a place called Texas Roadhouse gets kicked by Steven Seagal

Adding butter to a steak is not to compensate for problems with the quality of the beef. It enhances the flavor of a great steak.

Saw the headline "steakhouses are disappearing" and thought to my self, huh, Ruth's Chris, Mortons and Capitol Grill are shutting down?! Then I heard them say Outback and Pondorosa, after I pulled my self up from the floor dying of laughter I moved to the next video. I heard all I need to hear from this video.

Yeah, lost me at calling Ponderosa a steak house...