Does free corkage make up for steak sticker shock?

[Ramon_C]

Verbal only specials seems very much a US thing.

True, and the good ones that recite appropriately include the prices as well.

[Russell_Faulkner]

Though the ‘champagne by the glass’ is often verbal.

Always ask the price and the volume!

[Mike_Evans]

First date with my wife as a lowly college student I was offered the Surf and Turf by the waiter at a nice seafood joint. I didn’t asked the price since I was trying to impress.

It was $105. That plus her dish plus our appetizer was a whole week salary at my part time campus job fixing computers. Ha.

And I bet you never wanted to return to that restaurant. One huge flaw of the tipping system is that it creates a conflict of interest. The server’s interest is in maximizing his or her profit on that transaction, while the restaurant has an interest in encouraging future visits. Of course, there are too many restaurants where the interests are aligned and the restaurant management doesn’t mind poisoning the well either. . . .

[Robert.A.Jr]

Those tomahawks are also weirdly, crazily more expensive at the butcher shop. I don’t know why. Nobody’s doing anything with that bone except for the dog.

It’s aesthetic! Shows you are a Baller!

My Goldens love the bone.

Back to the OP, I always find it annoying when a server does not recite the prices with the specials.

[Karl_K]

I think the server should announce the price.

Roy’s point about restaurants not finding help and needing to pay more is a good one.

Where’s the money going to come from?

[S_Stevenson]

I have to reiterate, the steak was good and we will go back. When the bill came and I saw the $150 I actually laughed.
I first thought that this will be a good story to tell.

[brigcampbell]

Those tomahawks are also weirdly, crazily more expensive at the butcher shop. I don’t know why. Nobody’s doing anything with that bone except for the dog.

It’s aesthetic! Shows you are a Baller!

My Goldens love the bone.

Back to the OP, I always find it annoying when a server does not recite the prices with the specials.

When I was a kid I went to a very nice restaurant with my parents and the women’s menu didn’t have any prices.

[Tom_G_l_a_s_g_o_w]

Those tomahawks are also weirdly, crazily more expensive at the butcher shop. I don’t know why. Nobody’s doing anything with that bone except for the dog.

It’s aesthetic! Shows you are a Baller!

My Goldens love the bone.

Back to the OP, I always find it annoying when a server does not recite the prices with the specials.

When I was a kid I went to a very nice restaurant with my parents and the women’s menu didn’t have any prices.

When I was 7 or 8 my parents took us to the Sweetwater Casino, a restaurant. My younger brother orders the most expensive thing on the menu, crab imperial. Takes one bite and refuses to eat it, my father was furious.

[Barry_L_i_p_t_o_n]

First date with my wife as a lowly college student I was offered the Surf and Turf by the waiter at a nice seafood joint. I didn’t asked the price since I was trying to impress.

It was $105. That plus her dish plus our appetizer was a whole week salary at my part time campus job fixing computers. Ha.

It worked

Actually, I bet she overcame her concerns on a lack of fiscal responsibility due to Charlie’s other winning qualities. Was she impressed favorably Charlie?

[Tom_G_l_a_s_g_o_w]

First date with my wife as a lowly college student I was offered the Surf and Turf by the waiter at a nice seafood joint. I didn’t asked the price since I was trying to impress.

It was $105. That plus her dish plus our appetizer was a whole week salary at my part time campus job fixing computers. Ha.

It worked

Actually, I bet she overcame her concerns on a lack of fiscal responsibility due to Charlie’s other winning qualities. Was she impressed favorably Charlie?

You mean impressed currently, they’re married you know.

[Rodrigo_B]

When I was a kid I went to a very nice restaurant with my parents and the women’s menu didn’t have any prices.

Some places shockingly still do that

[T_Welch]

Meh. Caveat emptor. If you are going to be bothered by the price you should ask. Not asking and then complaining on a message board is rather petty.

Let me complain a little more. It only came with 1 side.

Wow, a two dimensional steak!

It was only wahfer thin.

[Mariano_Chiaramonte]

Imagine something really bad, then multiply that by 10. Welcome to Miami!

Salt Bae’s restaurant called cops on customer who wouldn’t pay for...

[Craig_G]

Imagine something really bad, then multiply that by 10. Welcome to Miami!

https://www.miamiherald.com/miami-com/restaurants/article239104028.html

This part was redundant:

Miranda almost choked on his $275 Caymus Cabernet.

[Albert_R]

Imagine something really bad, then multiply that by 10. Welcome to Miami!

https://www.miamiherald.com/miami-com/restaurants/article239104028.html

This part was redundant:

Miranda almost choked on his $275 Caymus Cabernet.

Yeap, sounds like Miami alright.

[S_Stevenson]

Meh. Caveat emptor. If you are going to be bothered by the price you should ask. Not asking and then complaining on a message board is rather petty.

Let me complain a little more. It only came with 1 side.

Wow, a two dimensional steak!

That made laugh.

[Russell_Faulkner]

When I was a kid I went to a very nice restaurant with my parents and the women’s menu didn’t have any prices.

Some places shockingly still do that

My last memory of this was at a 3* place about 15 years ago with my wife. They asked us if one of was the guest of the other. I ended up with the ‘no price’ menu.

[Chris_Seiber]

When I was a kid I went to a very nice restaurant with my parents and the women’s menu didn’t have any prices.

Some places shockingly still do that

I went a few times to a private dining club in OC (the Center Club), and they would give the man a menu with prices and the woman a menu without prices.

Neither my wife nor I realized we had different ones, until she said she wondered what the prices were, and I said they were written right there on the menu.

[lleichtman]

Last night was a quiet evening and we were eating at the local steak house and the waiter comes over and says that they have Tomahawk steak as a special that night.

Hummm. Had that several times in the past, great presentation and tasty. Somewhat expensive, but not wallet breaking so we order it.

As advertised, delicious and impressive to look at. I expect the price to be somewhat north of the most expensive steak on the menu (which was $69). Figured give or take $90.

Turns out it was in the Great White North of that.

$150.

Good news is that the waiter waved the $20 corkage fee (we brought our own wine).

Our fault for not asking the price ahead of time, but if you have to ask, you can’t afford it.

Lesson learned.

I have been burned by “specials” so many times, I always ask the price nowadays. And $150 for a Tomahawk steak is high. We get one for $90 at our local Japanese restaurant and it is a good 1.5-2 lb steak.

[Arv_R]

Imagine something really bad, then multiply that by 10. Welcome to Miami!

https://www.miamiherald.com/miami-com/restaurants/article239104028.html

I don’t think the police should be responding to those kinds of things. Given the pattern & practice, that’s a commercial dispute not a criminal issue. Emergency response isn’t some unlimited resource that can be wasted on dbaggy restauranteurs.