frugal

If it’s a slow night or people are feeling frugal, tips can be minimal.

Prof Anil Gupta who runs the Honeybee Network, a platform for supporting such ventures, call these "frugal innovations".

They won at Wembley in the play-off final last season and will be among the favourites to return in another year - despite their frugal top-flight points tally.

The version I remember best comes from West Virginia, where my grandmother — daughter of a coal miner, master of the frugal feast — made hers with snapped spaghetti, ground chuck and a generous pour of Ragu.

Chinese consumers have grown frugal since the pandemic, and this caution has persisted even after restrictions were lifted in late 2022.