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If I won the lotto for that much I would buy a $4k bottle of wine, open it, and the give it to the first homeless looking person* I saw outside the restaurant.
I've been to a dinner with someone like that. Ordered 5 magnum bottles of Cristal. There were about 15 of us.
But $100/man at an AC steakhouse (or NYC) inclusive of other drinks (since only the one bottle was broken out) is easy to achieve. I do that regularly and while I do okay, I'm no Wall Street tycoon. I'd venture a guess that 95% of people spending $100 a man on dinner have their meal broken out something like this: $25 on drinks, $45 on entree, $20 on apps, $15 on sides.
I think he's right too, but someone that is unfamiliar with wine wouldn't necessarily jump to that conclusion.
No, of course not. I am not excusing what happened by any stretch...I just never even though about wine menus being rounded to the dollar exclusively. I'm a beer drinker and so we don't order many bottles when we go out. What we will do, however, is bring our own bottle in with us and pay the $10-$15 corkage fee to drink it there. Screw the mark-up.
what a terrible "import" beer list. and the craft beer list is the suck too. all the great portland breweries and they go with rogue?
Which is why the manager let them "Settle." He knew that it's his responsibility as well to make sure situations like this don't happen and he would be #### canned if they had to eat the cost.
The story is pretty detailed. The manager seems a bit of an arrogant ###, but he probably has the most to lose.
Hard to argue this....Rogue is a coast brewery, not Portland, but they are way over priced in a highly competitive market.what a terrible "import" beer list. and the craft beer list is the suck too. all the great portland breweries and they go with rogue?
What would you do instead? Get the police involved? No way you are walking out of a casino owing them $4,000. Well not without a noticeable limp.
Seriously, "thirty-seven fifty" is a terrible way to describe the price. If the wine had cost $1,000, would the sommelier have said "ten"? If it had cost $10,000, would the sommelier have said "a hundred"? That's the same stupid scale.
Wouldn't this waitress have described it as ten?
I would at least get the cops there. Of nothing else that's going to make a scene
yeah but they have great beer tooHard to argue this....Rogue is a coast brewery, not Portland, but they are way over priced in a highly competitive market.what a terrible "import" beer list. and the craft beer list is the suck too. all the great portland breweries and they go with rogue?
"thirty-seven fifty" was a perfect storm of a price. No way they'd get him on "forty-five oh one" for the '82 Pauillac.
This was my thought as well. At a typical business dinner, it would've been 4 of those minimum with the first order.
The flip side is that a restaurant like this is unlikely to offer a bottle for under $50. A $37 bottle in a restaurant probably retails for under $10. Who would expect a business guy entertaining a group to buy that type of wine for his guests?
for ####### water. It was just crazy!
Who the #### buys a 30K bottle of wine? That makes me want to punch someone in the ####### head. I need to work on my anger issues.
