Are you guys living together or something??
Also, as students how do you afford to eat out all the time??
The dining hall is closed for the summer. So, instead of spending a fortune on the required meal plan, we are on our own for food.
Tips for eating out in Hoboken:
Order tap water, not soda or a hard drink. Tap water is free.
Skip the appetizer.
Eat at quick, cheap restaurants on friday and saturday. If you're going to go somewhere nice, do it on Wednesday or Thursday.
Find early bird specials. The Hoboken dining scene doesn't get going until 7-8pm on weekdays. If you go at 6pm, many places have early bird specials.
Find any promotions, and take full advantage of them. There's a Mexican place near us that has buy one get one free entrees on Tuesdays. We go every single tuesday, but never on any other day.
On the weekends, instead of an expensive breakfast and lunch, get a bagel or a sandwich at 11:30am.
Instead of going to the campus restaurant and spending $7 on a sandwich, drink, and fries - buy a 12 pack of soda, a half pound of turkey, and a loaf of bread at the grocery store. $35 is enough to feed two people, breakfast and lunch, monday thru friday.
At italian restaurants, get pasta, not meat. The veal parm is $18, but you can bet your ass that baked ziti is only $10.
At bar/grill type restaurants, get a sandwich. it's usually $8, versus $14-15 for a regular entree, plus it includes fries.
That's how I roll. During the regular semester, we're both required to be on $200/week meal plans to eat at the shitty cafeteria. We eat out in Hoboken for less than half of that, because there ain't no meal plan!