No not at all. I’m saying where you eat is personal choice and with it how much you spend. After that comes simple supply and demand. Demand is so high and so consistent restaurants have no worry about losing customers with higher prices because they have more than enough as it is. If you continue to go, even if you complain about the higher price, then you are validating that higher price. They don’t care about your complaints as long as they still have customers paying cash. Eventually the price will reach a point where you determine the price is not worth what you get and you stop going. It is however unlikely that will have any impact on the restaurant as others will continue to go because to them it’s still worth it. And here is the point, before you stopped going, other people long before you had already stopped going because to them it wasn’t worth it. See you are the traffic that is driving higher prices. Not you alone, but you aren’t just “in” that traffic affected by higher prices, you are the traffic pushing prices higher.
You can do with that information what you want, but dining out is not a necessity so you can opt out.