A cash-strapped customer split an entrecôte steak with a companion the other day at David Zenouda's Paris restaurant while others increasingly share starters, skip wine at lunch ​or opt only for a main course. It's a sign of the times for businesses that depend on France's increasingly frugal consumers, squeezed by rising ‌inflation, high energy prices and mounting economic anxiety ahead of next year's presidential election ↧ Anxious French consumers cut back as election and budget battles loom A cash-strapped customer split an entrecôte steak with a companion the other day at David Zenouda's Paris restaurant while others increasingly share starters, skip wine at lunch ​or opt only for a main course.