if it is a food court or cheap restaurant, a dollar is too much. but if it is a restaurant like icafe, a dollar is ok, since foods from there are expensive already
tofu 發表於 2009-3-29 21:46
What I think is the other way around:
For low end fast food type, it is a burden to include beverage in the set meal, tea, coffee and pop are easy, cold drink generally take more time to fix and more Horlick, Ovaltine, Almond mix etc is needed to make cold drink. And they are always short-laboured. Imposing a surcharge would prevent people abusing the system. It is an option, you pay extra only when you insist to have substitute. I'm not in food business any more, I speak as a customer
I thought on your # 1 post, you said changing the hot beverage to cold beverage,
they would charge $1.00 extra. However, for regular drinks, the price is a little steep.
But keep in mind that the hot coffee and tea is 7 oz. serving while cold drinks is 12 ox serving, almost double in size
22#siumaibb
As I said earlier, labour cost is expensive, syrup is nothing, maybe .$ 0.15
In this logic, nobody would ever buy Bubbletea.
$7.00 pearl would yield 50 serving.
For a 16 oz serving, the total material cost including is $0.60-$0.75 and how much
are you paying??? $2.00? $3.00 or $5.50?
Hot beverage are usually coffee, tea or half &half, those are pre-made and just pour.
While for cold beverage, you have to make a strong base and pour over ice in long glass, again, you pay for the extra quantity almost double in size.
I repeat , the topic is "Charging $1 extra for substituting cold drinks for set meal",
not for regular drink that you're already paying full price.
If you want to change anything from the Dinner Special at Fancy Chinese restaurant,
would cost you a fortune
Talking about bbt, Taiwan's bbt is very cheap, Vancouver is grabbing $$$
Littleprince 發表於 2009-3-30 09:50
It is call " The highest price market would bear" strategy.
Just like people would pay $6:00 for instant noodles
The market already collapsed in Seattle, they are selling it for US$1.00
Some BBT places have dropped to $2.00 and many would follow suit soon too.
It is not my problem cus I hardly buy from Cha Restaurant, and BBT is not my cup of tea, too old
cold drink and tiny bowl of rice....same thing....rip off la...LOL
shutterbug 發表於 2009-3-30 11:17
Yeah, once I went to a Chinese restaurant for causal dinner,
the dishes were alright, but when I checked the bill, they dared
to charge us $10 for rice which we did not order. They just
assumed someone from our party would order rice then they
charged us per person. Call it rip-off.
44#pc2426 Let's go back to the post #1,
the discussion was about adding $1.00 for substitution cold beverage in the
Lunch Special Set Not for regular price.
How come nobody ever complain about the Vietnamese iced dripped coffee?
It is $3-4 a serving even at Viet Submarine Shop.
A HK style Barrista is not cheap, many of them make $3500 or more a month,
with some under table pay. They are the key personnel at Cha Restaurant,
especially in HK.
I have trained hundreds of bar and water-fountain staffs in HK and Canada,
and taught full-time Cha Chan Tang courses at SUCCESS as well.
Both Ultraman and I agreed that HK style tea is much more complicated and
labour intensive than Canadian Tea. Is there any LYK worked in Cha restaurant
before? Ice machine cost $4000 and up plus plumbing, installation and maintainence.
How much you pay for an Iced espresso at Staxxxxxx?
And for Martini, do you think 1 shot of Gin worth $12 while the whole bottle cost
$17? you don't even get any ice in your glass Market Rate!
We are here to express our personal opinion, if you do not agree, just speak up with
your point, instead of finger-pointing without substantial.
Maybe I'm too old, I won't imagine to go to bubbletea place for a decent coffee.
Imagine some nice estate Blue Mountain coffee with Coffeemate and Pearl Balls
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