The 0.1% increase in food prices was driven by the “food-away-from-home” category, which rose 0.3%, as Americans continue to shift away from grocery stores and back towards restaurants for their meals.

I don't want to have to buy every meal at a hotel restaurant no matter how good it is.

All said, bet you still never missed a meal, right?

I want to work my way up the chain.

Anywhere along the supply chain you should be able to locate the best person to do the job based upon the work being done. 

I truly believe you shouldn’t pay a loan broker (like me) an upfront fee (i.e. tipping awaitress before you get your meal) but recent experiences make me wonder if paying a fee to a funding source or their representative (i.e. tipping the maître d’) might sometimes be the best and quickest way to the right funding, and therefore the best option for my clients.

They found a break in the chain of assignments.

If you reduced the potential equity with a lien or mortgage from friendly sources, that lien would be in the chain of title and would have to be satisfied in the event of demand on the secured premises.Charles

Learn as much as you can about title and solutions to broken chain of title.

Plaintiff's personal insury attorneys often go the 'get paid for results' model but this doesn't mean either quality results and defense respondent doesn't get that option.I think the way to work these kinds of deals is to become an insider early and bulletproof your position in the chain of title such that even a less than home run result will still make a profit.