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Coming up in just a half hour, we're going to talk about a change going on in medicine right now that is one that could really hurt your wallet big time or make your wallet smile as long as you know how the game is being played and how to work it best to your wallet's advantage.

Speaking of your wallet's advantage, there is a change going on right now and where we eat that's having a big effect on a lot of sit down restaurants mid price sit down restaurants and it is creating a money saving moment.

It's another Clark Howard money saving moment.

So here's the deal. Traffic is down overall at mid price chain restaurants and it independence.

And so there's going to be enormous experimentation to try to get revenues back up and it generally will not be recession specials like we're so much a deal last decade with

incredible deals on meals just for the entire schedule of restaurants open each week but they're going to be far more targeted offers and you're going to see something that will become a frequent addition to restaurants where there will be deals for early week diners let's say people will go out neat on Monday to Wednesday each week or Monday to Thursday.

A lot of a lot of restaurant tours do very well Thursday night through Sunday night but have more trouble getting people in Monday to Wednesday so having early week specials is very likely to be a significant part about how mid price restaurants deal with the loss of customers to the quick serves quick serves are the ones that they're above fast food.

They have food that people perceive to be equivalent in quality to a mid price sit down but it's part self service you go make your own beverage you get whatever napkins and forks and knives and whatever you need you may get aligned order and you sit down either somebody brings your food to you or they call you up to get your food that segment of the market is booming but traditional sit down mid price.

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