11 Tricks Restaurants Use To Make You Spend More Money
Thought this was interesting. http://www.businessinsider.com/restaurant-menus-spend-more-money-2014-7
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The $1.69 for the tea includes the cup it is served in, the labor in the kitchen that heated the water, the labor that served it, the energy that heated the water, the water itself, the tea bag itself, the rent or upkeep of the building it's served in, any advertising of the restaurant, taxes and insurance and other utilities etc.
If you factored in all of the overhead costs of serving yourself a cup of tea at home, I wonder if you could beat $1.69.
I don't own a restaurant, never worked in one, never will -- but I am worldly enough to realize that a lot more goes into the price of menu items besides the raw material cost of the basic ingredients.
It's like saying "we're camping in Walmart's parking lot for free, so our accomodations don't cost us a thing tonight." Yeah, other than the payment or depreciation on the rig, the gas to get there, the supplies on board, energy for heating and cooling, the laundering of the sheets and towels, insurance, etc. etc. For what most nights in an RV really cost, most of us could stay in a pretty swanky motel. But some prefer the RV and some prefer a cup of tea instead of water in a restaurant. Neither is a "ripoff."
If you factored in all of the overhead costs of serving yourself a cup of tea at home, I wonder if you could beat $1.69.
I don't own a restaurant, never worked in one, never will -- but I am worldly enough to realize that a lot more goes into the price of menu items besides the raw material cost of the basic ingredients.
It's like saying "we're camping in Walmart's parking lot for free, so our accomodations don't cost us a thing tonight." Yeah, other than the payment or depreciation on the rig, the gas to get there, the supplies on board, energy for heating and cooling, the laundering of the sheets and towels, insurance, etc. etc. For what most nights in an RV really cost, most of us could stay in a pretty swanky motel. But some prefer the RV and some prefer a cup of tea instead of water in a restaurant. Neither is a "ripoff."
