11 Tricks Restaurants Use To Make You Spend More Money

Bumpyroad wrote:

magnusfide wrote:
Thought this was interesting.
http://www.businessinsider.com/restaurant-menus-spend-more-money-2014-7

a lot of talk and no mention of the biggest theft at a restaurant, charging for drinks. one Chinese restaurant charged $1.69 for hot tea, and it was just hot water with one tea bag. ordered water there ever since. unless it is included in the price, it is always only water for me.
bumpy

That's a reasonable price for a cup of tea. A business uses cost accounting to allocate a percentage of all manner of overhead or cost to a unit so for instance it might reflect the price of the tea cup, the dishwasher that washes the cup, a fraction of the water bill, the waiter, the bus boy, etc. And part of the pricing is what the market will bear. no drink around here is under ~$2.50.