I went out to dinner this weekend…

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If they ordered wine, why does it say X?

Was the wine uncorked?

J

Ouch. I hope they got soundly thumped on the head.

Please tell me that was some cruel april fools joke by the restaraunt?

And how do you people afford meals that are $20+ a plate?

That's a pretty good cash register April fool's.

Ha. So they essentially taught you how to get poor. ;-)

Well, servers are encouraged to push wine and other alcohol - it's a higher-margin product, and it raises the check average, but that is a pretty extreme example.... :)

So your "friends" bought a $3,000 bottle of wine expecting everyone to split the cost? I hope you took them in the bathroom, beat the crap out of them, then used a credit card out of their wallets to pay the entire tab.

$20/plate is mid-range IMHO, not really that expensive. Granted if you do that every night, it's a bit much.

Even when I was a grad student I could easily afford to do that once in a while.

oh man... that's by far the greatest April's Fool joke ever played by a restaurant. Awesome. Just because of that I am gonna go there next time I am in Frisco.

Not to quibble, but why in the world would a restaurant charge you a corking fee for a bottle of wine from THEIR cellar?

I have to admit, I'm curious how this turned out, but I'm also really curious whether or not "X" is a type of wine that I am unfarmilliar with, or a mistake.

And as far as corkage... I would hope their margin of profit for the bottle of wine would account for the extra 30 seconds it takes to open a bottle of wine, especially at a restaurant of that caliber (I mean, it doesn't sound like the 4 seasons, but still, even the servers at Outback know how to open a bottle of wine!)

Should have gone to Cafe LuLu next door!!!! But bring the febreze to get rid of that wood-fired smell.