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> 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:
>>
>>>> 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/
>
>

Popeye, it sounds like yoose got slapped by the waitress when yoose
tried to get breastmilk. Yoose should just stick to yoose booze.