It was my friend’s birthday on Saturday, so a bunch of us went out to eat in SF. Apparently a couple people at the other end of the table ordered some wine and nobody was paying attention…
Update: Ok, the backstory: My friend (the guy whose birthday it was) called the restaurant in advance and had them pull this prank. Good job, Anton.
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Leave a commentIf 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.
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