Why eat in a resto if you can DIY. vs Why eat at a resto if you could DIY.

Both phrases are correct, but they are used in different contexts. 'Why eat in a resto if you can DIY?' is more informal and conversational, while 'Why eat at a resto if you could DIY?' is slightly more formal. The choice between 'in' and 'at' depends on the level of formality you want to convey.

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Why eat in a resto if you can DIY.

This phrase is correct and commonly used in informal contexts.

This phrase is informal and conversational. It is used to question the necessity of eating at a restaurant when you can prepare the food yourself.

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If you survive, you're welcome to join me for the last meal I will eat in this house before I disappear again.
If you have any problems with that definition, I suggest you eat in the yard.
I'll bring food back and we'll eat in or go out to a restaurant if you like.
I have to sign you in if you're going to eat in the cantine.
If you wanted to get anything to eat in my family you had to sneak up on it.
If you can't act fit to eat like folks, you can just sit here and eat in the kitchen.
This is like trying to control the weather, but I'd prefer it if you didn't eat in the car,
If you decide to eat in, remember to do as I do:
Why eat medical supplies when you've got pudding and tater tots?
Why eat, like a convict, their rations here?
We're about to eat in ten minutes.
There's plenty to eat in the kitchen.
My kids eat in the communal hall.
It must be hard to find enough food to eat in the park.
You guys always eat in the kitchen anyway.
We eat in the dining hall with the members.
I believe he still lives and eats in the Whispering Woods.
There's got to be something to eat in here.
You can eat in the other room.
And now, please let me eat in peace.

Alternatives:

why eat in a restaurant if you can cook at home.

Why eat at a resto if you could DIY.

This phrase is correct and slightly more formal than the first one.

This phrase is a bit more formal than the first one. It is used to question the need to dine at a restaurant when you have the ability to prepare the meal yourself.

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They say that if you were to eat at a different restaurant every day, you could go years without eating at the same...
Listen, if you're free Friday, maybe we could have a little something to eat at my place.
You can eat at and enjoy all the shops in the building if you drop Dae Woong's name.
If you mean the new lunchtime, the wretched servants were having to eat at 11 and then starve until their tea at six, so I...
Even if you don't eat at a fast food restaurant, you're now eating meat that's being produced by this system.
So if you do opt to eat at a restaurant with your parents, rather than eat here, please make healthy choices.
"If you're one of the cops, eat at Pop's."
Sometimes Captains eat at more expensive restaurants.
I thought maybe we'd eat at a place where you wanted to eat at tonight, Winston.
I think I'd rather eat at home.
Neither one us can eat at his table.
Now you eat at my table.
You're too good to eat at my table.
Jared said he was going to eat at Claire's tonight.
He owns the restaurant they all eat at.
And soon I felt confident enough to get us something to eat at a roadside cafe.
Or none of you will eat at all.
Now it just eats at me.
The officers eat at the Bagatelle, Rue de I'eglise.
Space exploration and the defense department no longer eat at separate tables.

Alternatives:

why eat at a restaurant if you could cook yourself.

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Why eat in a resto if you can DIY. vs Why eat at a resto if you could DIY.