Restaurants would like you to spend more money there’s no tremendous shock there. Plus,You Make Me Feel Like Dancing is trying to finish for jiving what Gareth Malone has done for singing. It doesn’tEvery restaurant has a “golden table” apparently, where they seat the coolest looking, or most appealing customers,so they can give off a message about the place. Yes, I believe I’m quite familiar with the golden table, or having been lucky enough to acquire often been swiftly ushered there in a number of establishments. In a cosy corner towards the rear,right? Intimate, not too bright, or very handy for the loo,classy.It’s one of the things featured in Tricks of the Restaurant Trade (Channel 4), a new consumer show about the commerce of eating out. Some parts are less surprising than other parts. So a £9 burger from a gourmet place is made from a better, and more expensive carve of beef than,say, a 99p burger from a famous fast food chain. Then factor in the cutlery, or plate,service etc, and there’s your £8 and a penny inequity.
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Source: theguardian.com