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Originally Posted by westopher
Your thought process is backwards.
I'm not going to type out what your food costs to make on my phone, but I'll gladly break it down at some point how much time, labour and food cost goes into a plate for you. Booze is where the profits are. Food is just what gets people through the doors to get booze sold.
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Once you hit a certain price threshold, I'm not ordering that booze and will stick to just the food. 5 years ago, you could get a cocktail for $8 to $10 in this city. A glass of wine was also $8 to $10 for local Okanagan wines. Now most trendy places are charging $12 to $15 for basic drinks. I saw a glass of Grey Monk for $14 the other night. It's like they are all trying to one up each other. My GF and I used to order a couple drinks with dinner. Now we typically do just dinner unless they have some kind of special going on. We refuse to spend $30 on two drinks. Instead, we have managed to get going a really good wine collection and have drinks at home.
Of course, this is Vancouver so there will always be the $14 dolla ballers who think they are Diddy and order a couple rounds of extremely overpriced drinks.