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I have been getting OVERcharged in several restaurants lately. Most egregious was Taco Bell (97th and Lex) where I was charged $8.97 for 3 soft taco's ($2.99 each.) That is near twice the price listed online.
Another place: Advertised lunch special Lamb Curry $8.99. She charges me any number that comes into her head,$10, $11, $12. So now I ask the price when I place my order.
Cheap Japanese joint charged me $4 higher than the menu price for a Bento box...no explanation on bill.
So I guess I gotta start being a Karen with some of these thieves.
When I buy something I do not like to feel like I am at an Iranian rug bazaar. Post your price and STICK to it. Don't force customers to haggle. And don't cheat them. The customer gets the last laugh when he refuses to ever return.
Last edited by Kefir King; 01-07-2023 at 06:33 AM..
Online price means nothing, if you go to a store the price is what's listed on the menu.
Best example of this is books, they all have a price like $11.99 above the barcode. When Amazon.com started they were selling the same book at like $6.95 which is more like the wholesale price. Barnes & Noble was going out of business selling that book at $11.99.
So what did Barnes & Noble do, reduce the store price? NOPE, store price still $11.99
BUT, if you go to their website, you can buy the book for $6.95 just like amazon and pick it in the store while the guy in line at the register is about to pay double for the same thing.
I have been getting OVERcharged in several restaurants lately. Most egregious was Taco Bell (97th and Lex) where I was charged $8.97 for 3 soft taco's ($2.99 each.) That is near twice the price listed online.
Another place: Advertised lunch special Lamb Curry $8.99. She charges me any number that comes into her head,$10, $11, $12. So now I ask the price when I place my order.
Cheap Japanese joint charged me $4 higher than the menu price for a Bento box...no explanation on bill.
So I guess I gotta start being a Karen with some of these thieves.
When I buy something I do not like to feel like I am at an Iranian rug bazaar. Post your price and STICK to it. Don't force customers to haggle. And don't cheat them. The customer gets the last laugh when he refuses to ever return.
You wouldn't be overcharged if you paid online and just picked up the food at the counter. That's what most people do. If you order in person then the prices will of course be the normal price. This is standard all over.
Not my words.
The bolden was a taken from another post.
I agree with you. I never saw such behavior
from European tourists.
Those were my words. I've seen it happen in midtown lunch spots as well as restaurants popular with office workers and tourists alike. For example, saw it in a Pret a Manger, Korean owned lunch buffets that charge by the lb, and in diner restaurants like Juniors in Times SQ. I know they're tourists because they had the cameras around their necks, were speaking loudly to each other in non English languages, and were consulting maps of Manhattan on their tables.
I have been getting OVERcharged in several restaurants lately. Most egregious was Taco Bell (97th and Lex) where I was charged $8.97 for 3 soft taco's ($2.99 each.) That is near twice the price listed online.
Another place: Advertised lunch special Lamb Curry $8.99. She charges me any number that comes into her head,$10, $11, $12. So now I ask the price when I place my order.
Cheap Japanese joint charged me $4 higher than the menu price for a Bento box...no explanation on bill.
So I guess I gotta start being a Karen with some of these thieves.
When I buy something I do not like to feel like I am at an Iranian rug bazaar. Post your price and STICK to it. Don't force customers to haggle. And don't cheat them. The customer gets the last laugh when he refuses to ever return.
I'm sorry to hear that this has happened to you several times. I don't think you're a Karen if you are making sure that you are being charged the appropriate price -- it's the right thing to do. I agree with you on not returning if I'm overcharged. I am not saying this to pat myself on the back, but I treat and tip very well at my regular restaurants and pick-up spots, but would be incensed if they charged me a dollar more than the advertised price and would definitely not return.
On a separate note and I'm not judging or being critical, but why were you at Taco Bell when El Tepayac Taquiera is literally next door? Their tacos (and other items) are excellent. I sincerely don't mean to be critical of your dining choices, if you're looking to grab and go quickly or looking to save money, I fully appreciate that and apologize. However, if you do get the chance to check out El Tepayac, I hope you have a nice time.
Anyone notice an uptick in this low class behavior? I've personally seen stuff like this ALL the time growing up in NYCHA neighborhoods.
I didn't sell food, but products and people tried to that crap all the time. I dealt with them with nothing but annoyance and anger. I was totally ok with not making the sale at all rather than cave into their attempts to shortchange us. Oftentimes it was the wealthiest that tried to short us the most. Sometimes when I wasn't on site, they would try it with my wife/adult kids and my family learned quick how to be hard-nosed with people like this.
I'd list it as one of the reasons I'm happy to have sold off my inventory and closed up shop. I do some side work still and known last second negotiators wind up getting quoted a higher price up front and still don't get the benefit of a price reduction at the end, so at least for me, I stick it to them for being such a pain.
How do you know that they were tourists from Europe? Did you talk with them?
I never saw such behavior here or there.
I've never seen the haggling, but you can tell tourists by looking at them. I worked in the city for decades, and for some bizarre reason, they zero in on me to ask for directions. I can be with five other people and they approach me. I am a six foot tall woman. You'd think they'd be scared of me, but it seems to be the opposite. Not complaining, I am happy to help, but it was just always so weird.
Anyway, I was going to lunch with friends once and I spied these four women walking through the WTC Concourse. They had very Slavic faces, and I said aloud, "Oh, here come some tourists, they are going to ask me for directions, and they probably speak with Russian or Ukrainian accents." Yup, they saw me and came walking over.
Afterward, in amazement, one of my coworkers said "How did you know?" I said "I just know." LOL.
I know they're tourists because they had the cameras around their necks, were speaking loudly to each other in non English languages, and were consulting maps of Manhattan on their tables.
So, you saw some people with cameras around their neck and they spoke non-English language. So, you assumed that they are Europeans...
Seriously??
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