I know, I know, lots of rich people who like to eat live in Manhattan, but even if I had a billion dollars …
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Because there’s a lot going on here, the competition for attention is very fierce. So you have to do something really ridiculous to get noticed.
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worked for me when I first met my wife. 
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You should’ve seen the stupid hat H was wearing on the day we met.
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Well, all 5 burroughs make up NYC, and I don’t think that would fly in some of them.
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More importantly, why do I not have national french fry day in my calendar.
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Very true. I also don’t think restaurants that pull these stunts sell many of these “specials”, and probably don’t expect to.
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In my house, everyday is national french fry day!
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Agree. It’s about getting media coverage and the resulting interest of customers who will come in to order something else. See also:
Norma’s is closed, now, so you’ll have to get your crazy expensive omelet fix somewhere else.
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I’d argue that Serendipity is kept alive by tourists, not folks who live in Manhattan.
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Wait…
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Upper East Side lol
Just don’t try to charge $1.25 for extra ketsup downtown!
Fries Attack NYC: Lower East Side Restaurant Fight Caught on Video – NBC New York
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So you’re saying that the frozen hot chocolate I get once a decade is not keeping them afloat?
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Actually, it is not a bad way to make a contrasting point. Fries are one of the cheapest food. We (the restaurant) will make a very expensive snack.
- Upstate Chipperbeck potatoes
- Vintage 2006 Dom Perignon Champagne
- J. LeBlanc French Champagne Ardenne Vinegar
- Pure cage-free goose fat from France
- Guerande Truffle Salt
- Truffle oil
- Crete Senesi Pecorino Tartufello cheese
- Shaved black summer truffles from Italy
- Truffle butter
- Organic A2 100% grass fed cream from Jersey cows
- Aged Gruyere Truffled Swiss
- A 23k edible gold dust topping
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I feel so little after knowing about the $2000 omelet.
I meant I feel small
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Like you feel as if you’re a diminished size, or you don’t feel much of anything?
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Nor will that one frozen hot chocolate I got when I took visiting friends there twenty years ago.
Remember the movie? They probably got a nice bump after that.
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This one. I should have said “small”. Let me edit it.
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How much? ETA - right, $200
Yeah, throwing every truffle product on something is a good way to boost price (and kill flavor - half the “truffle” things these days taste just awful).
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There was a movie?
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