Happy New Year! On today’s episode of Eat. Talk. Repeat.

🎉 Surprise! Sam is back — because starting the year without chaos would feel wrong.

🔮 Ash predicts a wave of restaurant closures in 2026 — tough love, hard truths, no crystal ball required.

🥩 Should steakhouses… become affordable? We debate whether this is real life or just clever menu math.

🤝 Shoutouts to ETR fans who stopped us “in the wild” — nothing makes our day like talking with you all!

🔥 We wrap it up with our 2026 food trends that need to die and the ETR crew’s culinary resolutions for the year ahead.

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