Menu surcharge

[The Passenger]

i can't believe you guys. surely the fancy polygon shaped letters on the menu can justify these sort of prices?

even putting aside their ridiculous sharing policy, surely two people sharing a meal should only constitute a $6.50 rise, rather than $13.00. I would have thought the initial meal cost is absorbed by the first person involved in the eating, and only additional people would be considered sharers?

As for the sharing policy who polices that? What if one person just sits down with them but doesn't eat at all. What if they take one or two bites just to taste? **** i'd hate to work at that place. All you wanna do is earn you're (often less than) $20 an hour with a minimal of fuss, and you've got to enforce some stupid policy that you probably completely hate.

As said in this thread you can see the reasons, but the execution is very lacking.

 

[moses]

The Warradale is a great place to get a drink and the beer garden is very enjoyable, but the surcharge and dining prices are terrible. I notice on the menu it says minimum surcharge - that infers that they can charge even more?!

 

[Bosun]

Is it a popular pub? Are they turning patrons away on a regular basis at lunch/dinner?

 

[Silent Alarm]

As for the sharing policy who polices that? What if one person just sits down with them but doesn't eat at all. What if they take one or two bites just to taste? **** i'd hate to work at that place. All you wanna do is earn you're (often less than) $20 an hour with a minimal of fuss, and you've got to enforce some stupid policy that you probably completely hate.

Larry David made nearly a billion dollars from these kind of scenarios.

 

[Northworth]

agree with the earlier comment that a minimum spend per person would achieve the same intended outcome without the ridiculous, convoluted pricing policy

 

[moses]

Is it a popular pub? Are they turning patrons away on a regular basis at lunch/dinner?

Popular yeah. That particular night the dining room was at capacity...didn't see one entre

 

[Shell]

Popular yeah. That particular night the dining room was at capacity...didn't see one entre

It is discrimination against thin people I tell yas.
I can usually get thru a main course now- but for a long time I could only manage entrees.


Off topic- but this is what really shits me at restaurants. Places that wont let you take away dessert. I farking want dessert, but I cant eat it right now ffs, put it in a farking container for me!!!! And dont give me that OH+S bullshit...

 

[Scotland]

Reads like the menu at pretty much any Perth pub, only cheaper.

 

[PP34]

Should've left a big bag of shit on the table before doing a runner, OP.

 

[Happy_Neale]

It is discrimination against thin people I tell yas.
I can usually get thru a main course now- but for a long time I could only manage entrees.


Off topic- but this is what really shits me at restaurants. Places that wont let you take away dessert. I farking want dessert, but I cant eat it right now ffs, put it in a farking container for me!!!! And dont give me that OH+S bullshit...

Restaurants need a license to do take away food. We have this problem all the time at the pub I work at, usually I just say "we're not allowed to do that, however there is a container on your table and if I don't see you do it, I can't stop you".

 

[Dont be a lemon]

pub, which was recently been extensively renovated.

New floorboards and shit music?

 

[moses]

New floorboards and shit music?

70% of the old pub bulldozed and rebuilt

 

[Sanders]

That's the most normal thing in the world,

Y'all need to move past KFC

 

[Bunk Moreland]

I get their issue with a dining room being filled with drinkers who aren't eating, but it's a pretty dumb, ham fisted way to try to solve it. Not very business savvy, you're just going to piss off customers.

Surely the way to do it is encouragement, not just slapping extra charges on things. Create an atmosphere in the garden / sports bar that people will want to drink in so that they sit in there... you can still have food available.

Then have things a bit different in a dining room, quieter atmosphere with no other entertainment (TVs etc) so that people who just want to have a meal and talk to each other will use it.

 

[Cruyff14]

What if one person just orders and then two other mates eat too? I assume being at a pub, you pay first, then get your food.

 

[kfc1]

Reads like the menu at pretty much any Perth pub, only cheaper.

Without the surcharges tho.

Hyde Park Hotel has some good specials as well!

 

[The Passenger]

put it in a farking container for me!!!! And dont give me that OH+S bullshit...

Restaurants need a license to do take away food.

sounds like OH+S bullshit

EDIT: not having a go at you Lh, just at the whole thing. "Rules & Regulation Australia"

 

[Happy_Neale]

sounds like OH+S bullshit

EDIT: not having a go at you Lh, just at the whole thing. "Rules & Regulation Australia"

It is, but it's not the restaurants fault. The industry is ridiculously over regulated.

 

[nicky]

Reads like the menu at pretty much any Perth pub, only cheaper.

Yes i couldn't believe how expensive perth was and how dreadful the food was.

 

[The Passenger]

The industry is ridiculously over regulated.

australia is over regulated. we've pulled the wool over the world with the whole "casual australians" thing... maybe as individuals, but as a collective.... hmmm yeah nah not casual in the slightest.

 

[Shell]

sounds like OH+S bullshit

EDIT: not having a go at you Lh, just at the whole thing. "Rules & Regulation Australia"

Once or twice I have taken my own container to restaurants for that exact purpose.
Cause i'm a classy girl like that.

Speaking also of taking food home- you'd think in America, the litigation capital of the world, they'd have stricter food controls, but they dont. I took home some spaghetti marinara once, left it a DRAWER (air conditioned room tho) and ate it over the next two days and didnt get sick, lol.

 

[Joe King]

Reminds me of this...

 

[ClokesShankedIt]

They probably found the dining area was filled with patrons who were drinking and just ordering a snack at their table which I assume would mean the pub was missing out on business from patrons who wanted a proper meal (i.e specifically at the pub for dinner).

Just encourages people who are at the pub for a drink (and maybe a snack) to stay in the beer garden.

Terrible for people who want to buy an entre to share (I do this a lot) or a pizza to share (I do this a lot)...I'm sure if you asked they would waive the surcharge...otherwise I would never eat there...

Don't have a problem with this policy. If you are in a restaurant and taking up a seat/table, order a meal. If you want to share a pizza with mates do it in the bar/beer garden.

 

[Impunity!]

Restaurants need a license to do take away food. We have this problem all the time at the pub I work at, usually I just say "we're not allowed to do that, however there is a container on your table and if I don't see you do it, I can't stop you".

This is a state by state matter. In WA, many pubs (notably those owned by the big chains) have a footnote to their menu, which states (words to the effect of):

"The Vic operates under an accredited food safety program and in the interests of patron safety, all food must be consumed on the premises."

However, (over to you WA Department of Commerce and Health!):

"A restaurant cannot refuse a customer’s request to take leftover food citing health or food safety laws. Food activities within Western Australia are governed by the Food Act 2008 and the Food Regulations 2009. This legislation does not prevent food businesses from providing customers with leftover food in the form of doggy bags.
Restaurants are not, however, obliged to supply containers for customers to take food home. For this reason, customers may supply their own container."

So, if you're at a restaurant, and you want to take your leftovers home, feel free to argue. But you may need to bring your own container.

 

[ClokesShankedIt]

The pub/restaurant is a business, not a benevolent society run by a group of like-minded volunteers who come together in order to provide people with a comfortable space where a group of four grab a table to share a couple of bowls of wedges and a good conversation between the hours of 7 and 8:30 on a Friday night.

I've never been involved in running a restaurant (thank christ) but I'd wager that the monthly budget revolves around earning $x per seat over the course of the month - so paying customers get first dibs.

I like how people are sounding off like their property rights have violated because they don't get the opportunity to waste the pub's time.