noncents

[Charles Doyle]

The implication of the centless-dollar prices listed on the menu is that anybody who has to worry about a few cents here and there shouldn't be eating at such a restaurant? Or that anyone who could be deceived into thinking that $24.95 for an entree is significantly cheaper than $25 is too stupid or too penurious to deserve eating there?

--Charlie
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---- Original message ----
>Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:25:54 -0700
>From: "Arnold M. Zwicky" <zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU>

>
>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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