noncents

[Laurence Horn]

>--- "Landau, James" <James.Landau at NGC.COM> wrote:
>
>>
>>  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 have seen one related example: on West Wing there was an episode on
>>  which Josh Lyman had to deal with a proposal to demonetarize the penny.)
>
>I've seen dollars without cents a few times before, usually in more upscale or
>trendy restaurants. The missing hundreds digit looks weird to me, although I
>think I've seen it on wine-by-the-glass lists at some restaurants that
>otherwise omit the decimal values entirely.
>
Yup, and at our local excellent Malaysian restaurant the dinner menu
is in the usual dollars-and-cents mode, but the single malt scotch
offerings (and quite possibly the wine-by-the-glass ones) are in
dollar amounts, sans decimal points/values.

LH

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