restaurants that don’t put a pound sign on the prices

It’s commonplace in the US, often dropping the cents also which is even odder.  “Budweiser 6.”  It took me a beat to realise that they were actually prices.

I wonder if the absence of a currency symbol means you could argue in court that they should be obliged to accept 21 Turkish lira or Dogecoin?

They aren’t obliged to accept anything. If they wanted, they could request payment in carpet and refuse service otherwise.

As my old maths teacher used to say, ‘units’!

Same. “12 what, giraffes?”

Fair enough Josh – they are not round my way tho 🙂  leith is short of non European restaurants and a decent veggie place

The ones that spell it out in letters can get in the sea, too.

“Organic smash burger and skin-on chunky chips, Ten”. GTF

You sure they’re not just confirming the chip count?

Well in that case they can get even further into the sea!

I saw it at some pizza place the other week and actually thought it was listing the different sizes of the pizza and was very confused!

If they wanted, they could request payment in carpet and refuse service otherwise.

That’d be an unexpected twist.

I’d be floored if I saw that in a restaurant

Paying for a meal with a shag?

Im sure there’s films about that.

They aren’t obliged to accept anything. If they wanted, they could request payment in carpet and refuse service otherwise.

I’m not sure thats true. In a shop it is but on the assumption you have already eaten the food you are technically in debt to the supplier? So at some point they would have to accept settlement, at which point you break out the coppers?

Its left wing doctrine and only woke numpties pay.

the more expensive the restaurant the more shy they seem to be about using the £ prefix

some don’t even put prices at all.

…but it looks like I can’t upload an image today.

Finally! Thanks for the tutorial @kayak23

That’ll be a tasting menu, the price will be for the full menu, listed elsewhere.

some don’t even put prices at all.

That only concerns  menus presented to the laydees. You would know that if you frequented polite society.

The geezer gets all the full eye-watering prices in his menu. He then has to calculate how to gently suggest options which he can afford, or else figure out a way to do a runner.

Surely, if one has to ask…..

one can’t afford it.

I’m not sure thats true. In a shop it is but on the assumption you have already eaten the food you are technically in debt to the supplier? So at some point they would have to accept settlement, at which point you break out the coppers?

Now the police are involved?- this has escalated quickly!

The geezer gets all the full eye-watering prices in his menu.

The person who makes the booking gets the menu with the prices on. 

Legally, if you offer to pay them with “17.5 big ones”, and they accept, then t they’re contractually bound to accept 17.5 big ones.

Baps?

that’ll do nicely!

That’ll be a tasting menu, the price will be for the full menu, listed elsewhere

you don’t say? ?

I added that one just because of the potential to go from the sublime premise of the thread to the ridiculous ‘but that menu has no prices at all’. Indeed it is a tasting menu for which the price was fixed and agreed beforehand.

I don’t get the issue. What currency do y’all think the prices are written in?

Just out of interest, if you ordered, and ate, in a restaurant with no prices on the menu, what would be the legal position if you refused to pay when they presented you with the bill?

“Organic smash burger and skin-on chunky chips, Ten”. GTF

Incidentally,

When did “skin-on” become a feature? “Just like regular chips, only we couldn’t be ringed to peel them first.”

I’m not sure thats true. In a shop it is but on the assumption you have already eaten the food you are technically in debt to the supplier? So at some point they would have to accept settlement, at which point you break out the coppers?

You make an interesting point.

A retail transaction is a legal contract of sale, heavily short-cutted for convenience. In purchasing a meal, the restaurant is inviting you to sample a given dish in exchange for a stated remuneration. In ordering you are implicitly accepting their terms, to wit you’re happy with giving them money and the price is acceptable. Then in providing the food, the restaurant is implicitly accepting your offer.

Does it become a debt once you’ve consumed the meal? That I’m less sure of. If you buy a Mars bar from the corner shop then the situation doesn’t change depending on whether you’ve eaten it or not. Does it? It’s harder to back out of the sale I suppose…

Just out of interest, if you ordered, and ate, in a restaurant with no prices on the menu, what would be the legal position if you refused to pay when they presented you with the bill?

Also an interesting question.

My cod legalese would want to side with the consumer here.  A retailer (shop, restaurant, whatever) is surely obliged to inform their customers of pricing ahead of purchase.  Otherwise they could charge £2,000 for a bag of chips and go “surprise!” after you’d eaten them.

This is broadly how consumer law works.  Companies must be transparent about fees.  Like, it’s OK to charge a customer for return postage of an unwanted item, but ONLY if the customer is made aware of this charge ahead of purchase.  A restaurant has to be similar I’d have thought?  The “invitation to treat” explains what they’re offering and what they require in return, in keeping prices secret that initial step of the transaction falls flat so there is no Contract Of Sale in place.

I think.

I don’t get the issue. What currency do y’all think the prices are written in?

This is exactly it – it’s literally impossible to know! And then when you offer to pay in Venezualan pesos, the waitress rolls her eyes and tells you to stop being a smartarse! You just can’t win.

The wife had booked us in to a hotel for a couple of days next month, had a look at the menu and the lazy gits have done this, just put a number next to the item, lazy sods.  We have cancelled and booked somewhere they can write the price properly.

Some of you whingers would have an aneurysm at The Butterfly and Pig here in Glasgow

https://thebutterflyandthepig.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Sample-Menu-April-2024-.docx.pdf

Maybe they’re just rejecting using a symbol of European origin.