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charlie and algernon

(13,447 posts) Fri Mar 22, 2013, 11:34 AM Mar 2013

Proposed new rule: If you have a menu on your website, include prices!

I HATE that! If you're going to post your menu on your restaurant's website, please include prices! When I'm looking for a place to go for dinner or drinks and I've never been there before I want to know if I can, you know, actually afford to go there. I used to loathe when Resaurants would post their menus as PDf's. Now more restaurants are finally putting their menus on the website proper but I guess the catch is that we lose the prices.

Customers kinda want to know if the appetizers are going to cost the same price as entrees or if a burger is going to cost $15. Even if they are, it doesn't mean we ain't gonna go. But it at least allows the customer to make sure the money is available.

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Proposed new rule: If you have a menu on your website, include prices! (Original Post) charlie and algernon Mar 2013 OP

I assume if the price can't be found, I can't afford it union_maid Mar 2013 #1

That's my impression as well - especially if the menu is in an italic font petronius Mar 2013 #5

I get issues with chain restaurants charlie and algernon Mar 2013 #6

If you have a brick and mortar business please put your address on your website tabbycat31 Mar 2013 #2

Or they bury the address as part of a long list of directions charlie and algernon Mar 2013 #7

And don't play music. Nye Bevan Mar 2013 #3

Luckily I only see (hear) that lately on band websites charlie and algernon Mar 2013 #8

Take it as a hint. If they don't post prices its because they are too high. talkingmime Mar 2013 #4

Pretty much charlie and algernon Mar 2013 #9

union_maid

(3,502 posts)

1. I assume if the price can't be found, I can't afford it

Reply to charlie and algernon (Original post)

Fri Mar 22, 2013, 12:09 PM

Mar 2013

I agree about the PDF's but if I really, really want to know I'll open it. In the event that there's no price anywhere, I figure it's a case of "If you have to ask you can't afford it.". Of course, sometimes it's just that chain restaurants have different pricing in different locales, but I'm sure they could figure out how to give people a some guidance if they really wanted to.

petronius

(26,602 posts)

5. That's my impression as well - especially if the menu is in an italic font

Reply to union_maid (Reply #1)

Fri Mar 22, 2013, 12:22 PM

Mar 2013

with no prices...

charlie and algernon

(13,447 posts)

6. I get issues with chain restaurants

Reply to union_maid (Reply #1)

Fri Mar 22, 2013, 12:28 PM

Mar 2013

though that's a case where PDF's ARE helpful. When you search for the local chains, they could put a PDF with localized prices for each location.

But I've gone from hating PDF's to looking for them because those actually INCLUDE the prices.

tabbycat31

(6,336 posts)

2. If you have a brick and mortar business please put your address on your website

Reply to charlie and algernon (Original post)

Fri Mar 22, 2013, 12:11 PM

Mar 2013

I had to go to an event last night at a restaurant/bar and their website did not have the address on it. (I knew the street it was on from the Facebook invite but they got the number wrong--- I ended up seeing it from the street, but an address is a must in the age of GPS).

Stupid!