11 Tricks Restaurants Use To Make You Spend More Money

RandACampin wrote:

gbopp wrote:
It's all about the bottom line....

Of course it's about the bottom line, they are in the BUSINESS to make MONEY! Is the American public so naive to think that resturants or any other business for that matter wouldn't employ any and all sciences and techniques to make it more profitable? :S

That's the point I was trying to get across, 'it's all about the bottom line', I thought my statement was short and to the point. :C

I heard where Denny's banned you nickel a cup coots for tying up a booth all day drinking coffee for the price of one cup. ;-)

put me in the nickel a cup for coffee and free refills era. or sometimes free with the meal. I don't mind paying for coffee or tea but the mark up is highway robbery.

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

Shame , Shame...another greedy business trying to make a profit. What is this world coming too?

powderman426 wrote:

kcmoedoe wrote:

robsouth wrote:

TexasShadow wrote:
IMO, the biggest ripoff is the price of drinks...any kind other than water.

Amen to that. I can remember when the drink was included at no extra charge almost everywhere. Now some places want $1.99 for a glass of iced tea...ridiculous.

How the heck old are you that drinks were not an extra cost? Never in my lifetime. Water is still free and everything else should cost more since I prefer to pay for what I consume, not pay for what someone else might. UAnd we all know that anything that is "free" is really just included in the price of something else.

Heck, I'm so old I can remember when coffee was a nickel a cup and you got refills.

But even at a nickel, it wasn't free, and that was in the era where a nickel was more than extra weight in your pocket.

gbopp wrote:
It's all about the bottom line....

Of course it's about the bottom line, they are in the BUSINESS to make MONEY! Is the American public so naive to think that resturants or any other business for that matter wouldn't employ any and all sciences and techniques to make it more profitable? :S

kcmoedoe wrote:

robsouth wrote:

TexasShadow wrote:
IMO, the biggest ripoff is the price of drinks...any kind other than water.

Amen to that. I can remember when the drink was included at no extra charge almost everywhere. Now some places want $1.99 for a glass of iced tea...ridiculous.

How the heck old are you that drinks were not an extra cost? Never in my lifetime. Water is still free and everything else should cost more since I prefer to pay for what I consume, not pay for what someone else might. UAnd we all know that anything that is "free" is really just included in the price of something else.

Heck, I'm so old I can remember when coffee was a nickel a cup and you got refills.

Most restaurants barely get by. I know I'm being "ripped off" when I buy soft drinks but I also know this is their bread and butter. The idea that their somehow taking advantage of us by trying to up-sell absurd. Of course they trying to sell us stuff - they're not our friends, they're trying to make a living and we should know that when we walk through the door.

robsouth wrote:

TexasShadow wrote:
IMO, the biggest ripoff is the price of drinks...any kind other than water.

Amen to that. I can remember when the drink was included at no extra charge almost everywhere. Now some places want $1.99 for a glass of iced tea...ridiculous.

How the heck old are you that drinks were not an extra cost? Never in my lifetime. Water is still free and everything else should cost more since I prefer to pay for what I consume, not pay for what someone else might. And we all know that anything that is "free" is really just included in the price of something else.