So, speaking for myself, you are right about my disdain for the practice of reciting specials without providing price info. However, in recent years, we haven’t run across that situation at all. Perhaps it’s because we’ve been mainly dining out in NYC, and the restaurants we go to don’t do long lists of specials. If there are one or two (e.g., soup du jour, today’s fish, etc.), they are announced with prices. Same for our occasional restaurant dining in NJ these days.
There are some restaurants in NYC where prices are not provided on the website menus. Kind of like saying, “If you have to ask, you can’t afford it.” In NJ, the prime local example was Fromagerie. But they must have received a lot of complaints because at some point they changed and began including prices.
