Poll of the Day > Should a soda cost $15 if the restaurant is expensive as a whole?

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Same soda you can get anywhere else, but it's $15 here because of the rest of the experience.

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I feel like a lot of people would just go with water and they would end up losing money

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Muscles posted...

I feel like a lot of people would just go with water and they would end up losing money

Eh, true. Forgot you can just do that.

Although having drinks doesn't mean you necessarily lose money by not serving them.

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Muscles posted...

I feel like a lot of people would just go with water and they would end up losing money

They would probably charge you the same...

It's like going to a Strip Club/Juice Bar or some Nightclubs where, no matter what Liquid is being served, there is always a Minimum Drink Price...in some cases, it can be anywhere from $7-$15 Bucks

Even at much lower prices soda is one of the biggest markups stores have.

cost them pennies to make each one.

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Solid Sonic posted...

Same soda you can get anywhere else, but it's $15 here because of the rest of the experience.

It's never going to be $15, but it'd always be too much anyway.

Muscles posted...

I feel like a lot of people would just go with water and they would end up losing money

They could charge you for the water!

Solid Sonic posted...

Although having drinks doesn't mean you necessarily lose money by not serving them.

It kinda does, since that's often where they make a lot of their profit.

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Zeus posted...

It kinda does, since that's often where they make a lot of their profit.

They lose out on potential earnings, but there's rarely any direct loss associated with not selling drinks, outside of extreme cases. Drinks tend not to be particularly perishable, so provided you're selling enough to get through a shipment in less than a couple years, you'll be okay. Wine and milk are the most noteworthy exceptions, but in the case of wine, glasses are typically priced such that they lose very little on the opened bottle if they only sell 1-2 glasses and there are often many opportunities to use an opened bottle in the kitchen, and milk is used in so many food dishes that drink sales are a fairly small portion of that.

That said, as you say, drinks are a major revenue source for most restaurants, given that their high margins can compensate for lower prices on other items, so many restaurants' pricing schemes will operate under the assumption that a certain number of drinks are selling. If they don't sell that many drinks, that can lead to losing money overall, even though they aren't losing money on the drinks themselves.

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Muscles posted...

I feel like a lot of people would just go with water and they would end up losing money

I feel like, if you're at an expensive restaurant, you're probably leaning more into wine or mixed drinks for dinner over water.

That might just be me, though, because I don't really like to drink water with food.
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Not unless it cures cancer or something

ParanoidObsessive posted...

I feel like, if you're at an expensive restaurant, you're probably leaning more into wine or mixed drinks for dinner over water.

That might just be me, though, because I don't really like to drink water with food.

I went to Charthouse one time and had water and it was absolutely fantastic. So smooth and cool.

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I wouldnt pay that much for a soda. For $15 I want bourbon or better.

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A place that expensive wouldn't serve soda.

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Muscles posted...

I feel like a lot of people would just go with water and they would end up losing money

When friends and I ate at Gordon Ramsay Steak in Paris, Las Vegas. We asked for water and wine. We should have been more specific since the waiter brought us mineral water at $9 a bottle. I am not sure if we even had the option for regular free water.

Even though I thought my steak was worth $60. The three bottles of mineral water kinda annoyed me a bit. I woulda been fine with tap water.

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