{"id":308156,"date":"2026-05-09T21:45:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T21:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/308156\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T21:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T21:45:11","slug":"where-do-you-eat-out-when-youre-strapped-for-cash-tell-us-your-fresno-favorites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/308156\/","title":{"rendered":"Where do you eat out when you\u2019re strapped for cash? Tell us your Fresno favorites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Gas is $6 a gallon. Elections are being won or lost on affordability. And everything just seems to be expensive lately.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">You can dine at home to save money, sure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">But sometimes you just gotta take a break and let someone else do the cooking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">So we thought we\u2019d ask, where do you eat out when the budget is tight? What restaurant? What dish, specifically? How much does it cost?<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Beyond that $1.50 hot dog and soda combo at Costco, what other deals are out there? Especially at locally owned restaurants in Fresno and Clovis?<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Give us specifics in the form below and we\u2019ll share the results with you in a story.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"A food vendor sets up shop selling hot dogs on the sidewalk along Olive Avenue in Fresno\u2019s Tower District Wednesday evening, July 19, 2023.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"573\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/19afeaa80d80f1592caf690706e12f64.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A food vendor sets up shop selling hot dogs on the sidewalk along Olive Avenue in Fresno\u2019s Tower District Wednesday evening, July 19, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>(ERIC PAUL ZAMORA\/ezamora@fresnobee.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gas is $6 a gallon. Elections are being won or lost on affordability. And everything just seems to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[29736,112,114,113],"class_list":["post-308156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-affordability","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}