Harris Hawk wrote:
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Good god, man. Open your own restaurant; see what the real world is like.
You don't like homosexuals? I'm sorry. He "hit" on you. Give me a break. Are you that insecure with your sexuality? Maybe he was paying you compliments with a lisp :]!
The food costs half what you paid to prepare? I doubt it. Restaurants with no liquor license make about 3-5% profit. You do better with a pass book savings account (not counting refurbishing an historic building to exacting National Register standards--I salute restaurants like Callaways for this; how do they do it? You buy a $5 hamburger [excellent at Callaways, BTW] they clear a buck-fifty).
Restaurants with a beer and wine license (like Trinity) make about 10% profit. So if they are truly only charging about half of what the food would cost you to fix at home they are backing up (as my grandfather would have said). I know this may be a difficult concept for you, but the cost of the food on your plate is only a fraction of what it costs to run a restaurant. Yeah you can buy a "Wonder Chicken" at Albertson's for a couple of bucks--but really, dining?
Someone has to pay to create the atmosphere, to actually bring the food to your table, to ensure you have a good experience. Clearly you can burn a steak at home for less and you may enjoy it as much or you may want to be pampered. Pampering costs. It is worth it--at least occasionally.
Give it up or accept the tariff. Trinity is not a hoity-toity high-falutin' kind of place. they have reasonable food and drink at reasonable prices--mostly from New Mexico. Sure, you can cut their price at home--if that is what you want, do it. What's stopping you?
Harris, where did I say anything about me being able to make it cheaper at home? And you specifically said, "A restaurant with a beer and wine license (like Trinity) make about 10% profit. Whereas somewhere like calloways only clears a buck fifty." Thank you for further proving my point about how a real business struggles, and the last time I checked a nice building doesn't mean the food is good. That's like saying a singer is good if they're pretty, no not exactly. And I am perfectly fine with my sexuality and homosexuals- you forget I was at the brad light rave party and according to most people it was a drug induced gay orgy, I just don't appreciate it when someone does it in the most "upscale" restaurant in carlsbad right in front of my date when we haven't even been seated 10 seconds, do you? This is not a matter of opinion and exaggeration; i've stated nothing but fact about my experience at the trinity. I'm sorry you don't agree but my point is this- any restaurant that charges $50 for a meal that is VERY mediocre is not good business I don't care how much percentage they make off of food or how nice the building is.