The majority of patrons pay retail value or more. Statistics provided by Panera indicate that roughly 60 percent leave the suggested amount; 20 percent leave more; and 20 percent less. One person paid $500 for a meal, the largest single payment.
Red Fish Grill auto-reblog. It’s there, right between the Saloon and the Hustler store. It used to be the men’s department of D.H. Holmes department store.
(via defendneworleans)
Longman and Eagle turns a snarky review into an amusing postcard.
(via Chicagoist)
“There is a new thinking about what BYO is for,” said Tom Cannavan, a writer whose wine-pages.com website lists several hundred restaurants which offer free BYO or corkage. “It has been the province of low-end restaurants which didn’t have a licence and for customers who want to drink on the cheap. The new movement is for people who are serious about their food and wine, but really resent that restaurants mark their wines up so highly that they can’t afford wine to match the quality of the food they are eating.”
I wonder if this “revolution” will take hold on this side of the pond. It could have serious implications for the bottom line at most fine dining restaurants.
