Best 'times are tough' line of the day

“My youngest daughter, who these days is sometimes a kid and sometimes an adult when it comes to menus, got a kid’s menu. You know, with word puzzles, tic-tac-toe layouts, mazes, and figures to color in. It used to come with a pack of 4 crayons — red, blue, yellow and green. Yesterday it had a pack of two — red and blue.”

A reader in Kirkland, Washington, reporting on Red Robin’s cutbacks at NPR’s Planet Money Blog