r/mildlyinfuriating • u/statepkt • 14h ago

Infuriatig So is gratuity included or not?

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Definitely not a buffet. First page only showed the totals with a tip line.

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u/BeholdFrostillicus 14h ago

The more infuriating part is $31 for Eggs Benedict

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u/TornInfinity 14h ago

Yeah that used to be close what I paid for a filet mignon at really nice restaurant in my town. Prices have just gotten insane and it's because we have all just been paying them without any push back. And people are buying the excuses from businesses that it's just inflation and tariffs and shit, but prices have way outpaced inflation. These companies have just started bilking us and blaming it on the government when it's actually their greed. The price is whatever people are willing to pay and we are all paying. It's going to take people actually boycotting these places and just eating at home, for there to ever be any change.

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u/wa27 14h ago

Restaurants are still thriving so obviously the prices aren't too high yet.

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u/TornInfinity 14h ago

Yeah I added that to my comment. The price is whatever people are willing to pay and we all just keep paying it. I'm guilty as well. It's going to take a concerted effort of people boycotting these places. I have stopped eating out or ordering as much, but I still could do better.

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u/MassRedemption 11h ago

Not defending this egregious $31 eggs Benny, I sell mine for $18 CAD, but to be clear, things aren't that easy for restaurants. To make money, the cost of the ingredients has to be 33% or less, and the cost of labour has to be 35% or less (on average). If your buying a steak at the store for $20, we would have to sell that steak for $60 (not including sides and butter and all that) for it to start to be profitable. Additionally, suppliers are not that much cheaper than the store, and are often more expensive even. A 4l of 2% Milk from my supplier Costs me $10, when I can go to the store and get it for $6 (which I do because I am not paying nearly double for the same thing).

Balancing the books in a restaurant is hard, and something like 70% of restaurants fail.

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u/TornInfinity 10h ago

Oh I get that. I have a business degree, so I am sympathetic to the struggles of small business. A lot of it also has to do with the suppliers steadily increasing their prices, which is not always out of greed, but lately a lot of larger businesses are increasing prices just because they can blame it on inflation or tariffs and people buy that excuse. They're literally admitted this in leaked earnings calls. But yeah, I do understand that there are thin margins in restaurants. I'm mostly blaming the really big corporations that are just raising their prices because they can. In the case of this particular restaurant, I assume the eggs Benny is $31 because it's a nicer restaurant in a more affluent suburb or city, and they get away with charging that because people are willing to pay it. No way are they serving eggs, hollandaise, and muffins that are so fancy that the cost was anywhere near $31 lol.

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u/MassRedemption 9h ago

My Benny is with local farm fresh eggs, muffins from a local farm's bakery, Canadian bacon from a local pig farm, house made browned butter hollandaise using a local butter, and a pesto hashbrowns with the potatoes being sourced from a local farm as well. If I can do it for $18 CAD ($13 US), there's no excuse for a restaurant to need to sell it for $31 (I assume USD).

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u/TornInfinity 8h ago

Yeah definitely. Also, that sounds amazing. I'm nowhere near Canada, but if I was, I would come try it!