NYCers are looking for delicious lunch options that don’t drain your wallet and soul — check out these spots all under $20

These take the “mid” out of Midtown.

With NYC workers flocking back to the office in record numbers, working stiffs are seeking quick and tasty lunch options without paying through the nose.

More often than not, they end up with the ubiquitous “sad” salad, an expensive amalgam of cold rabbit foods crunched catatonically at one’s desk while one scrolls social media. 

Hawked at such hot spots like Sweetgreen and Chopt, these soulless roughage bowls have inundated Midtown, offering little sustenance for the ever-growing throngs of desk jockeys in NYC, where post-pandemic visits to office buildings in April were just 5.5% below 2019 levels — a national record, according to the Placer.ai platform.

“[It’s] hard to find food that actually tastes good [and] that’s not just rushed,” Sade Quianes, who works for a streaming company in the city, told The Post.

The “$20 salad” was notably lampooned on TikTok by singer “Awkward” Marina Sneider, who crooned in her viral ditty, “it isn’t even good and you’re not even wealthy, but you need all your co-workers to think you’re super healthy.”