{"id":310033,"date":"2026-05-11T08:14:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T08:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/310033\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T08:14:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T08:14:24","slug":"where-do-you-eat-out-when-youre-strapped-for-cash-tell-us-your-fresno-favorites-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/310033\/","title":{"rendered":"Where do you eat out when you\u2019re strapped for cash? Tell us your Fresno favorites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:Fresno Bee;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fresnobee.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"Fresno Bee\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"266\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/creatr-uploaded-images\/2021-12\/37ec2ce0-5e8c-11ec-b1fb-0027018c0b4f.jpeg\"\/><\/a>Sat, May 9, 2026 at 1:30 PM UTC<\/p>\n<p>Gas is $6 a gallon. Elections are being won or lost on affordability. And everything just seems to be expensive lately.<\/p>\n<p>You can dine at home to save money, sure.<\/p>\n<p>But sometimes you just gotta take a break and let someone else do the cooking.<\/p>\n<p>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>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>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=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_fresno_bee_mcclatchy_299\/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":"Sat, May 9, 2026 at 1:30 PM UTC Gas is $6 a gallon. Elections are being won or&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[29736,112,114,113],"class_list":["post-310033","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\/310033","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=310033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}