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[James Harbeck]

>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).

If they wanted to be really hip they could use fractions.

I must say that James Landau's instance is the first time I've heard
of menu items to one decimal place of a dollar, and it almost
surprises me that it's the first. Dollars-only prices are common
enough at the upscale restaurants around here, but not normal for the
cheaper ones.

James Harbeck.

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