So.. I get a $7.50 glass of wine at Carrabbas and I liked it.. Guess how much the same bottle coste me at the store...

[brxndxn]

So, I got a glass of Cabernet Sauvignon, Mondavi Woodridge.. It went really well with my rare sirloin marsala at Carrabbas. The damn glass was $7.50..

So, I wrote down the name of it and went to the local liquour store the next day. The bottle was $5.99. At Carrabbas, it was $31.00 for the bottle.. I thought it'd be at least a $15 bottle of wine at the liquour store.. I was really surprised I enjoyed a really cheap wine so much..

Damn.. I guess I gotta learn not to get wine at a restaurant.. It's got a higher markup than beer. I just can't live with myself when it's got such a high markup. It's like buying a soda at a hotel.

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Maybe it's also the satisfaction and just the environment in which you were drinking it?

 

[aplefka]

I think wine is marked up more than beer.

 

[kindest]

i love my 2 buck chuck.
cant beat it for the price.

 

[toekramp]

Originally posted by: kindest
i love my 2 buck chuck.
cant beat it for the price.

this man speaks the truth

 

[ChefJoe]

Mondavi cab is great but there's Private Selection (with synthetic cork usu) and then there's the normal stuff and then there's a reserve... PS uses grapes they outsource.

in WA, the PS is like $8 a bottle and the regular is between $17-19 at costco. It's really good stuff.

 

[preslove]

Many fine dining places use wine as a main source of profit. If no one bought there ridiculously marked up wine, they would go out of business.

 

[Raincity]

Welcome to restaurant revenue 101. It even sucks even more if you have liquor sales background like me and know the % markup of a Bud six-pack at the local AM/PM.

 

[Liviathan]

Cheaper wines have a higher mark up than the more expensive ones.

But that's the way it is....

 

[91TTZ]

Originally posted by: brxndxn
So, I got a glass of Cabernet Sauvignon, Mondavi Woodridge.. It went really well with my rare sirloin marsala at Carrabbas. The damn glass was $7.50..

So, I wrote down the name of it and went to the local liquour store the next day. The bottle was $5.99. At Carrabbas, it was $31.00 for the bottle.. I thought it'd be at least a $15 bottle of wine at the liquour store.. I was really surprised I enjoyed a really cheap wine so much..

Damn.. I guess I gotta learn not to get wine at a restaurant.. It's got a higher markup than beer. I just can't live with myself when it's got such a high markup. It's like buying a soda at a hotel.

That's because the snooty people that claim that they only like expensive wine really have no clue. If you gave them a $10 bottle of wine and told them that it cost $500, they'd probably tell you it was "exquisite" or something.

 

[gsaldivar]

Originally posted by: toekramp

Originally posted by: kindest
i love my 2 buck chuck.
cant beat it for the price.

this man speaks the truth

:thumbsup:

 

[cavemanmoron]

Originally posted by: brxndxn
So, I got a glass of Cabernet Sauvignon, Mondavi Woodridge.. It went really well with my rare sirloin marsala at Carrabbas. The damn glass was $7.50..

So, I wrote down the name of it and went to the local liquour store the next day. The bottle was $5.99. At Carrabbas, it was $31.00 for the bottle.. I thought it'd be at least a $15 bottle of wine at the liquour store.. I was really surprised I enjoyed a really cheap wine so much..

Damn.. I guess I gotta learn not to get wine at a restaurant.. It's got a higher markup than beer. I just can't live with myself when it's got such a high markup. It's like buying a soda at a hotel.

LOL
how do you think they can afford to pay the rent/mortgage.

 

[Homerboy]

are you not going to buy clothes anymore? Do you have any idea the markup on that?