In another thread, it was mentioned that some restaurants have started serving lesser amounts while serving the same amount of money. This caused me to think about which one I would prefer. My wife and my eating habits have changed drastically in the last 2-3 years to the point where quantity is not nearly important as quality. I will take a somewhat smaller portion of very good food as opposed to larger amounts of a lower quality meal. I fall very definitely into the quality over quantity camp. How do the rest of you feel about this concept?

Price increases are a fact of life. As long as the quality remains and the portion sizes stay, I'm okay with paying more.

Now, if they raise the price every two weeks or so, that's another thing...

Having a hard time figuring out your post compared to the title of the thread. You'll take a smaller portion for the same price or you'll take a smaller portion of higher quality for the same price or you'll take a smaller portion of higher quality for a higher price? For me if it's a smaller portion for a higher price the quality better be there or I'm not coming back. I won't bitch, I just won't come back.

Proper portion at proper price. All depends on what I am ordering.
No matter what I should not be hungry when done.

Place here in town has the best smoked then flash fried wings.

Wednesday is Wing Wednesday.
I would get 12 Wings, 2 sides, and a drink cost me $11.98

In today’s days of wings that is pretty decent. Though I really miss the all you can eat for $9.99. I would easily put down 70 so it was probably a good thing for my health they went out of business.

But that Wing Wednesday is now $14.98. Sadly that has apexed what I will pay and likely won’t be back. I was eating there every week.

Most of the time I want the same expeected portion no matter the cost difference.

But not always. It depends on the item.

One half an egg doesn't do me any good...

But if I want a pint of my favorite ice cream, the motherfuckers better put a fucking pint of ice cream in there no matter the cost because I buy ice cream by how long it takes me to eat X, not based on price.

And when they do reduce amounts to keep the price the same, I want it labeled overtly. The subtle adjustments are too open to fuckery, IMO.

I prefer quality and portion size and am willing to pay more for it, realizing that inflation is happening all of the time.

Depends. In a restaurant where portions are usually too large I rather have smaller portions or maintained quality. In the grocery store, I rather they raise the price and keep product size the same.

Pre kung-flu wasn't the food the least expensive part of the equation so restaurants piled it on to attract customers?

When I buy food at a store or restaurant, I am usually accustomed to getting a certain quantity, and that’s what I want. I don’t have to walk away from a restaurant stuffed, but part of the reason to eat out is to be satisfied by the meal. I will stop going because I don’t like the meal for some reason sooner than because I don’t like the price. If I wanted to save money, I wouldn’t eat at a restaurant in the first place.

And while I can’t do anything about the cans of food getting smaller all the time, that’s still one of my pet peeves.

What I was trying to say was this. If I went into a restaurant often and my favorite dish cost $35.00 and the next time I went into the restaurant the same dish's portion size was noticeably smaller, yet still cost $35, would I be ok with that considering the quality was the same. On the other hand, would I rather the portion size remain the same, but it then cost $40? That's the question I'm laying out. Hope I explained it better this time.

How about both? You'll get less and it will cost more. That's probably how the future is shaping up for the restaurant industry whenever we emerge from this Covid BS.

I was once told a good chef will watch the garbage.
What he meant was that as long as there were no complaint about the food if he saw food volume going into the garbage he would adjust the portion size down. They would charge the same price increasing the profit margin.
My wife and I visit restaurants on Disney property. We have seen over the years portion size go down and prices either stay the same or go up a small percentage every year.
This is something we do not mind because of the quality of the food in the restaurants we visit.