You can pickup dead animals on the side of the road and cook them. Why go to a grocery store and pay for the convenience of having air conditioning, refrigeration, lighting and packaging. The questions that get asked here sometimes...
darn well said. If you can’t afford or just want to whine about alcohol prices when dining out, drink at home or stay homeThe bartender at my favorite restaurant makes the best old fashioned I've ever had.
Not everyone wants to learn to change their own oil. I don't have the desire to perfect an old fashioned. I'll gladly pay someone for their expertise. If I'm out at dinner, I'm there too enjoy myself, not piss and moan about what they're charging me.
These threads amuse me when people deride the service industry as a scam. People's labor has value. A chef's time has value. Your server's time has value. The experience of dining out has value. If none of that adds value to you, then stay home.
I'm also not sure where you buy your wine or what you like to drink - on average the bottles we enjoy are $20-30 and that price is pretty similar to whole bottles in restaurants. Of course there is markup. They're there to make money.
Instead of complaining about the cost of a glass of wine, buy the bottle and loosen the hell up. Or just stay home and keep your misery there with you.
I'm not sure I understand this analogy. I don't drink but I know how to use a corkscrew and/or twist a bottle cap. Shops charge labour to compensate their skilled trade workers for their knowledge and skill plus other business expenses. You can purchase pads, rotors and calipers but may not know how to install them. When I was in the industry, our shop would not install customer supplied parts. Just like I can't bring my steak to a restaurant and have them cook it for me.Same reason why a shop would charge you to install parts you supply. You are taking away a source of income for them.
Yes, to a certain extent. You can make KD or you can make macaroni and cheese. Both are pasta dishes but only one has Swiss Gruyere and extra sharp Cheddar just as one example.Ever done the math on how much they markup pasta?
RVW, need to know that place....next time I am through FT Bragg would like to try a old fashion.... never had one. My go to drink is a woodford and diet coke....The bartender at my favorite restaurant makes the best old fashioned I've ever had.
Not everyone wants to learn to change their own oil. I don't have the desire to perfect an old fashioned. I'll gladly pay someone for their expertise. If I'm out at dinner, I'm there too enjoy myself, not piss and moan about what they're charging me.
These threads amuse me when people deride the service industry as a scam. People's labor has value. A chef's time has value. Your server's time has value. The experience of dining out has value. If none of that adds value to you, then stay home.
I'm also not sure where you buy your wine or what you like to drink - on average the bottles we enjoy are $20-30 and that price is pretty similar to whole bottles in restaurants. Of course there is markup. They're there to make money.
Instead of complaining about the cost of a glass of wine, buy the bottle and loosen the hell up. Or just stay home and keep your misery there with you.
Bar Virgile in Durham. Cocktails and a simple menu executed to perfection.RVW, need to know that place....next time I am through FT Bragg would like to try a old fashion.... never had one. My go to drink is a woodford and diet coke....
I thought people go to restaurants for the food and to bars for drinks. While there is some overlap on both ends, the goals are the same. I also read occasionally about a restaurant that goes out of business if they lose their liquor license. Will people just not go to a restaurant if they can't have alcohol? Isn't the food the main attraction? Or are many people like Raj on the BBT who cant function socially without being liquored up?Alcohol at restaurants is the biggest scam ever, but people do it to look classy or sophisticated so it's an allowed hypocrisy.
seriously? I highly doubt that. How do you know unless you write down their selections and run to the local wine shopto compare? Just asking. The only thing I can figure is, on real high end wines, perhaps the resturant can get their bottles for a huge discount.In many higher end restaurants, the wine is competitively priced vs. the wine shop. $5 for a soda is the real outrage.
Exactly. I always order water.....and the wait staff hates that. But in the end....I do tip well.They would, because you are taking up the space they could let a better customer sit on.
That how you got your name? All the steak and lobster you can eat? And fries as well.As a young fatty I worked in a steak and lobster restaurant
Do you think these people are dumb and don't understand that they could get their alcohol for less at a local liquor store?For someone that gets tap water unless the combo comes with a soda, I've always been baffled by how people will pay $6 or $8 for a drink or glass of wine when the food itself is just $8 or $10.
Yes.When you take a girl out for a nice dinner, and she wants to have a glass of wine with it, what are you going to tell her? "Honey, have a glass of tap water instead, and no ice because it takes up space! On the way back home I'll take you to the liquor store and will buy you a whole bottle."
For me, there is time for all of it. We cook at home quite a bit, but we also enjoy trying new restaurants, cuisines and just taking a break from cooking while supporting local businesses.Yes.
That's why we love and married each other. Similar financial goals. Realization that we can buy a whole six pack and bottle of wine and drink it at the hotel or beach vs overpaying at the restaurant. We rarely dine out. Restaurants are such a waste of money. Her home meals taste better almost 100% of the time.
Costco pizza is $10 and feeds 4, though - I fully support that. In-N-Out burgers are also well-priced. But a sit-down restaurant? Nah, we don't need to be "served". Better yet, the burritos we cook while camping - can't beat the price, location or experience.
People who dine out regularly spend hundreds of dollars a month. They are also not the ones that seem to be on top of their retirement finances. We'd rather retire early than work. The average American doesn't get the trade-off. Delayed gratification is no longer a thing. "Let me take a selfie with my friends at this fancy bar". That makes them feel good about themselves. lol
/rant from a 40-year old grumpy old man