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AIBU?

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AIBU to think it is wanky to have restaurant prices on a menu written out in words?

13 replies

TheKitchenWitch · 04/02/2019 20:22

A friend of mine often goes to a restaurant in town, the kind that serves very small portions on very large plates iykwim
But she highly recommends the food so I thought it might be somewhere for DH and me to try some time.
Just looked it up online.
All the prices are written at the bottom of each menu in words ie 4-courses one hundred and eighty pounds per person.

This is wank isn’t it?
It’s put me right off.

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userschmoozer · 04/02/2019 20:23

Yes, that is the epitome of wank. Do they even have plates?

SneakyGremlins · 04/02/2019 20:24

Bet it comes on a slate.

MondeoFan · 04/02/2019 20:31

Yes that'd put me off. It's their way of basically over charging people for tiny portions of food

Pugwash1 · 04/02/2019 20:32

If it costs more than 2 syllables it's too much for me! And agreed.. Wank.

SabineUndine · 04/02/2019 20:33

I bet there's asparagus foam on bloody everything.

BulletWithABun · 04/02/2019 20:34

I hate this wankiness. There is a restaurant near where I live which has prices in words. I don't go there any more because the food was as wanky as the price list.

Soup - Six
Oysters - Three each
etc

EmUntitled · 04/02/2019 20:34

4-courses one hundred and eighty pounds per person.

Yes thats wanky. I also find it annoying when they write amounts as fractions or decimals like 4 1/2 or 4.5 rather than £4.50

GunpowderGelatine · 04/02/2019 20:35

Or when they just stay a number

Haloumi fries 7.5

Someone on another thread the other day said next time they're in one of these wank-grills that she'll give them 7.5 Tupperware lids and see what they say, really tickled me

Drogosnextwife · 04/02/2019 20:36

God I thought the menus that had it written as, 19.5, 25.5 etc were wanky. That's just a whole new lever of wankery!

GunpowderGelatine · 04/02/2019 20:36

Or they put the chef's name in the menu. "Joey's banging buffalo burger". Fuck off Joey and cook my food

HavelockVetinari · 04/02/2019 20:38

7.5 Tupperware lids

Thanks a fucking lot, I just woke the hair-trigger baby!

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TheKitchenWitch · 05/02/2019 14:03

Oooh very glad it's not just me!

It's just so unnecessary in every way. We have numbers for a reason. Plus, I should mention that I am in Germany which has the LONGEST WORDS EVER so one hundred and forty eight, for example is einhundertachtundvierzig, all written together, which makes it EVEN MORE WANKY.

I think it's too posh for slates.

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Elmo230885 · 05/02/2019 14:06

I was going to complain about decimals and fractions but several other people have beaten me to it
I'll just get back to my pumpkin spiced latte (3.5) and avocado toast (4.5) 😀

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