RANT: F**K YOU & YOUR VALENTINE’S DAY PRIX FIXE MENU!

If you’re a restaurant and you’re going with the price-gouging Prix Fixe menu, F**K You!

These restaurants claim to create these “special” menus to make the evening itself special. Some say they are too busy and streamlining the menu makes for a smoother, more pleasant experience in the front and back of the house. Whatever reason they’re giving for this inflated menu, it’s bullshit. It’s all about exploiting people.

I get it. February sucks ass for the service industry. But, Instead of having gratitude that Hallmark created a day, or weekend in this case, where the restaurants will be busier than usual, they seek to gouge.

Take Twenty-Manning. I’m a fan of this restaurant. On a typical dinner there, I might drop $35 on food and another $25 on drinks for a whopping $60. Not insane, but not cheap. On Valentine’s Day, they’re doing 4-Course Prix Fixe Menu for $65 per person. That’s just for food. If you want a beverage pairing, add $40.

I don’t mean to single out Twenty-Manning. They aren’t alone. They do good food there. They just happen to be where I was considering dining on Sunday, until I saw the menu and price.  Sbraga is doing a $55 per person fixed menu. The list of restaurants doing this goes on and on. Unfortunately, this exploitive price-gouging is the norm, rather than the rarity. Here’s a list of other local restaurants and their Valentine’s Day “specials.”

These places should just be happy they’re having a busy weekend with it being bitter cold February. They know they’ve gut us by the stones and see nothing but dollar signs. That’s a VIOLATION.

F**k these fixed price menus. I’ll be spending my money some place that is business and menu as usual. It’s simple. They show me respect. I show them respect. And, they’ll get my business all year round.

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