To the non-per diem travelers - how much per day do you spend on food/booze? I'm at about $100 since I like my wine.

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<$10 a day. Eat breakfast at home, pack left overs from the night before, make a homemade dinner. It's helpful I don't drink and am vegetarian

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If you eat at your hotel it's virtually impossible to stay below 50 if you have a couple drinks.

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$70, or thereabouts.

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Isn't the limit $50? I try to stay within that

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No @D3, it's been "reasonable" for a while. They just never publicized the change to the APR, and no one ever looks.

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I don't need to bc I have no limit and it's not my money 😎. Was just curious about others. A chicken dish and 2 beers is 45 plus 9 dollar tip. Maybe your hotel is cheap.

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Wow this method drives a lot more spending than the keep it-type per diems. I minimize spend for the most part because of that

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Seems like a lot to me!

@OP: that's not true at all. I stay under my $45 per diem in miami more days than not. Including a couple cocktails 2x/week. You just need to learn how to more effectively spend your money :)

$120 a day ish.My team likes a lot of Starbucks/Team Dinners 2x a week

I have breakfast at the hotel lounge and usually a $15 lunch. Dinner in the room is $50, but when we do team dinners, we can easily make it $100 a person...

10$ for lunch and between 20-35$ don't drink during the week , unless it's a team dinner

Project policy trumps firm policy so we get flagged for averaging over $50/day on my current project. As a result, I tend to avoid hotel room service (way overpriced and tastes like shit) as well as drinks at bars (grab a 6pack or bottle of wine at the liquor store -- it's tastier and cheaper!). Distribution ends up around $5 breakfast, $10 lunch, and $30 dinner leaving some wiggle room for random snacks/alcohol

Ouch, @DD1 - is that a commercial client?

@D1 yup -- commercial, but very cost conscious

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