11 Tricks Restaurants Use To Make You Spend More Money

Leo Benson wrote:

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.

did you read the part where it was a cup of hot water and a tea bag? I wouldn't have minded so much if it would have been like most every other Chinese restaurant that I have eaten at that gives you a metal tea pot full of already made tea. but you are certainly correct, it is what the market will bear. $1.69 is not a reasonable price for a tea bag and hot water IMHO. I have my free glass of water, they lost some money they could have earned if they would have provided a decent cup of tea.
bumpy