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  • Stop It With The Small Plates! (Except Where They Work)

    Stop It With The Small Plates! (Except Where They Work)

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    Dear Restaurant Owners, The jig is up! Do you think I’m a chump? Do you think I don’t see through you and your small plate menus? You’re trying to get me to spend more money than I want to! Instead of offering up an individual-sized appetizer for $12 to $15 and an entree in the…

  • Sneakily Expensive Drinks

    Sneakily Expensive Drinks

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    It happens to all of us at one point or another; we order a drink without looking at the price and then find ourselves startled when the bill arrives. That happened to me TWICE last week. The first time I was at Franklin & Company, a cute restaurant near our apartment that serves sandwiches and…

  • Pulp, There It Is

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    Does anyone else think it’s strange when you buy orange juice now you’re given a choice between lots of pulp, some pulp and no pulp? Normally I’m an orange juice snob, coming from Florida as I do, and in Florida when you get fresh-squeezed orange juice you just know it has pulp. Oranges have pulp…

  • Single Occupancy Restaurant Bathroom Pet Peeves #1 & #2

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    #1: You are in a single-occupancy bathroom and you lock the door. You begin to do your business and someone comes along and jiggles the handle. This someone–we’ll use the name Hank–doesn’t stop there. Even though Hank can tell that the door is locked, he must persist. He jiggles harder, he shakes the door, he…