noncents

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

On Oct 31, 2007, at 10:52 AM, Joel S. Berson wrote:

> At 10/31/2007 01:11 PM, James A. Landau wrote:
>> All prices on the menu are in dollars with no decimal point, e.g.
>>     Egg Drop Soup.............2
>>     Hot and Sour Soup........3
>>     Egg Roll......................2
>>     Sweet and Sour Pork.....9
>>     Moo Shu Pork..............9
>>     Beef with Broccoli........10
>>     Sauteed Steak Kew......15
>>
>> These prices seem a little high to me, and I don't know if it's
>> because
>> they are in unit dollars and I would be more comfortable with Egg
>> Drop
>> Soup for $1.50 and Moo Shu Pork for $8.95
>>
>> Has anyone else seen this phenomenon of not using traditional dollars
>> and cents?  Is this the beginning of a new trend?
>
> I vaguely recall seeing this once or perhaps twice, but in
> restaurants where the soup might have been 5 and the pork 25 (some
> time ago) -- that is, in an upscale (meaning intending classiness but
> achieving perhaps only high-priciness) restaurant.

palo alto has a pile of upscale restaurants, and a fair number of
them have prices listed in whole dollars.  one (the California Cafe)
seems to have everything in quarters (7.00, 7.25, 7.50, 7.75, 8.00).
a few are really into that annoying X.95 thing.

> IIRC, I've never
> seen just dimes after the decimal point.

i don't recall seeing that either.

arnold

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