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Default restaurant wine prices

On Jan 23, 7:58 pm, Sheldon > wrote:
> Johnny Lobster wrote:
> > I have noticed that many restaurants near my home in Denver are
> > raising their wine prices. They are already charging three to four
> > times the retail cost of a bottle.

>
> Only a pinhead pays 3-4 times the package store price for booze.


If you buy wine with a meal in Denver you almost *always* pay that
kind of markup. For instance, a $6 bottle of cheap Aussie Shiraz will
be around $20 if your lucky. An $8 bottle of cheap Penfolds will be
$25 at least. That is perfectly standard.

> I never order wine at a restaurant... order 2nis... likker is quicker.


If you can stand the taste, fine, but I like wine and a Martini will
cost you at least $8, the price of a glass of "house" wine. If the
object is to eat drunk, why not have a snort in the car for next to
nothing?

> So, what kind of lobster to they catch 5,000 feet above sea level?


They haven't caught me so far. I'm wily.

Lobster