LT wrote:

> \
> > I just thought some of you in the food service business might want a
> > reason to shake your heads in amazement. Comped deserts, but not the
> > coffee. That's a good one.
> >
> > Ken
>
> That's nuts for sure... WTF does coffee cost them? But just a little nag..

It sure is nuts. They take so long to serve a dinner and then try to make up
for their screw up by offering a complimentary dessert, and then screw up the
conciliatory gesture by charging for the coffee.

> Resturant prices these days are out of site. I don't mind the price if the
> product fits it. In your case it doesn't seem so.
>
> My $.02 US

You've noticed that too? I thought that maybe I was just being cheap. My wife
and I used to dine out frequently. It was one of our favourite weekend
activities. We were earning a heck of a lot less than. There wasn't that big a
difference between a cheap restaurant and a nice one. Now the nice restaurants
are getting ridiculously expensive. The last time I went to one of the local
winery restaurants was charging $14.95 for a bawl of soup, and that was almost
three years ago. The cheapest wine on their list was over $30, and they sold
only their own wines. It is not like they had an extensive wine cellar to
maintain.

All the best to them if they can find enough people willing to be ripped of for
their restaurant experience, but I can't afford that kind of meal any more. I
prefer to patronize the places that offer the foods I like at a price I can
afford.