On Tue, 22 Jan 2019 12:04:35 +0000, ChattyCathy
> wrote:
>On Tue, 22 Jan 2019 03:17:22 -0800, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>
>> On Monday, January 21, 2019 at 5:31:11 PM UTC-5, Dave Smith wrote:
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>>> I have to agree. I would not expect it to be horrible, but.....$75???
>>> WTF. The melon would be maybe $5, some salt and sugar. I might pay $2-3
>>> for a slice but they said this thing feeds 3-5, so were looking at
>>> splitting one for something in the range of $20 a pop. Not in my
>>> world.
>>
>> Restaurant pricing is not driven by the cost of the raw materials.
>>
>
>I'll admit location, location, location affects pricing significantly
>too, but even if I was as rich as Croesus I wouldn't pay that - even if I
>thought I might like it. And... if somebody else is paying (who can
>easily afford it) when we go to a 'fancy' restaurant I try and order the
>most reasonably priced things I can eat from the menu. Furthermore, a lot
>(not all) of these 'fancy' or 'speciality' restaurants charge a fortune,
>but the portions are so small you are still hungry when you get home.
Totally agree and they are getting greedier by the minute. The
biggest resto rip off is booze, cocktails are so watered down with ice
you may as well ask for plain water.
I don't mind paying for the cooking, clean up, and service, but $65
for a steak dinner is ridiculous when I can buy a better steak at a
local market for under $10 a pound and cooking a steak requires little
to no skill. Most any 12 year old boy scout can grill a steak better
than a high end steakhouse and on a wood fire they built themself.
When I did go out to eat it be for food I couldn't easily prepare at
home and with ingredients I couldn't easily obtain near home. But for
many years now restaurant foods are pre-prepared in factories and of
poor quality ingredients. Nowadays salads come out of cello bag and
dressing from a bottle. Today the steaks served at a high end
steakhouse are comparable in quality to fast food burgers. Steaks are
also from the freezer, as is seafood, so are fries. The last time I
went to a high end restaurant was during the summer for the birthday
of a woman in my wife's golf club. I decided on pork chops. The
salad was prechopped from a bag, the dressing was probably wishbone
served in a small plastic cup. However my pork chops were two half
inch thick slices of boneless pork loin that I buy often at well under
$2/lb. I didn't order any appetizer or dessert. The pork arrived
with some sort of rice molded like from a muffin tin. My meal cost
the least, $23! Robbery! I could have prepared better at home for
like six bucks. I did order a Boodles dry mar2ni, was good but not
worth the $13. I kept the cost of my meal low even though it was paid
for from the golf club fund. I'll never eat at that rip off
restaurant again, the cook sucks. the decor sucks, the seatng is
extremely uncomfortable, and there is NO mountainview, all one can see
from the windows is their parking lot and accross the road a
dilapidated stockade fence for one of the last remaining drive-in
movies. The mountains can only be seen from the kitchen window in the
rear of the building. That building used to be an old butcher shop,
still smells of butcher shop.
https://www.mountainviewbrasserie.com/
https://www.mountainviewbrasserie.com/menu/dinner/