Biggest rip off restaurants - Page 7

BIG_DADDY · 08-07-2007, 11:22 AM

It's either got to be one of them damn noodle houses or the Olive Garden. Personally I think it's probably the Olive Garden.

**CosmicPal** · 08-07-2007, 12:25 PM

Good lord, you pay for quality, and you get ripped off by the chains- it's a known fact.

It's a fact that any chain restaurant has hugely inflated prices, dull service, and mediocre food quality. Someone mentioned Claim Jumper which is the perfect example of hugely inflated prices for something you can get at any Applebee's or TGIF's, etc...

If you want quality food- you're going to have to pay for it, and in most cases- it is worth it. But, you can't sit here and name every franchised restaurant and say it's a rip-off 'cause if you don't know that already, then you're pretty naive.

Hell, the biggest rip off of all has to be Starbuck's. $2.00 for coffee? $4.00 if you want a fuggen latte.

Sushi isn't a rip off. It's not a rip off if you don't like something. Sushi is high priced for a reason- 'cause the best sushi comes from overseas and the best sushi restaurants pay out a ransom to have it shipped overnight. Some of these sushi chefs are being paid $100,000 and more a year because they are such high demand.

There's a huge difference there. For instance mexican food has to be the biggest rip off of all. For instance, Chipolte. Good food for fast food, but the fact is- your $6.00 burrito maybe cost them no more than .50 to make. They have a total of a dozen ingredients in that whole store, so the profit market is astoundingly high. Why do you think there's so many mexican restaurants? The same thing goes for pizza. Domino's has a short list of ingredients and that 12.00 pizza you just bought didn't cost them a freakin' dollar to make. That's where we are getting ripped off the most. Plain, boring food, that costs more than it should.

KC Kings · 08-07-2007, 12:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Deberg_1990

Yea, i like to actively seek out the places and the nights that kids eat free. My kids are 2 and 4 and tend to waste alot of food at times. When we do pay, we end up getting them one meal to share to save money.

I am right there with you. We have a list at home, and we rarely go out to places that don't have kids eating free.

Sunday's : Boudreaux's Louisiana Seafood & Steaks
Monday : Atlanta Bread Company for dinner, Boston Market (.99 kids Meals), Waids Family Restaurant , and Zio's
Tuesday: Back Yard Burger, Lone Star Steak House, Salty Iguana, Cinzetti's, Fazoli's
Wednesday: Zarda in Blue Springs
Thursday: Back yard burger
Fri: ???
Saturday: Denny's in the evening, Lone Star for lunch
Sunday: Chartroose Caboose, Lone Star (lunch only)

**Fire Me Boy!** · 08-07-2007, 12:25 PM

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Originally Posted by BIG_DADDY

What they put on my plate cost 10 cents to make.

No... the pasta cost 10 cents to make. Sauces and meat cost more... and salad/soup/breadsticks COME with the entree, and BOTH are all you can eat.

WARPARTY70 · 08-07-2007, 12:25 PM

Black Angus is the biggest ripoff.

**Baby Lee** · 08-07-2007, 12:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Baby Lee

Can you fathom the concept of a large contingent of Americans who go to an 'italian' restuarant when they're in the MOOD for salad, breadsticks and pasta? Perhaps actually more than the contingent who go to an italian restuarant saying "there better not be any pasta or breasticks when I get there."

On a flier, looked at the menu for my local OG.

Mussels in white wine reduction
Chicken Spedini with tuscan potatoes and grilled vegetables
Venetian Apricot chicken with broccoli and asparagus
Parmesan crusted tilapia with grilled vegetables
herb grilled salmon with seasoned broccoli
Pork filletino
Chianti braised short ribs
T-bone.

No pasta on these.

And could you hook a brotha up with a 10 cent T-bone?

**Fire Me Boy!** · 08-07-2007, 12:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Baby Lee

On a flier, looked at the menu for my local OG.

Mussels in white wine reduction
Chicken Spedini with tuscan potatoes and grilled vegetables
Venetian Apricot chicken with broccoli and asparagus
Parmesan crusted tilapia with grilled vegetables
herb grilled salmon with seasoned broccoli
Pork filletino
Chianti braised short ribs
T-bone.

No pasta on these.

And could you hook a brotha up with a 10 cent T-bone?

What?!?!?! No pasta or breadsticks at an Italian restaurant! What a ripoff![/BIG_DADDY]

**Baby Lee** · 08-07-2007, 12:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Fire Me Boy!

What?!?!?! No pasta or breadsticks at an Italian restaurant! What a ripoff![/BIG_DADDY]

So it's clear, I just listed the non-pasta entrees for reference. They still sell the 10 cent crap too.

KC Kings · 08-07-2007, 12:30 PM

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Originally Posted by BIG_DADDY

We have several places here that are good. I don't know whether you would find them to be authentic. I went to the sight of one to post what they serve but the menue they list is only their most basic regular stuff. The actual menue is 4 times that big.

I am sure there are a lot of authentic places, but I don't go there because they are out of my price range. I lived La Maddalena, which is a little island between Sardinia and Corsica for a couple of years, so maybe the "authentic" food I am looking for is just backwoods Italian food and not really authentic. Captain John can vouch for me on this one, there is a ton of very good, very cheap Italian food that you never see over here in the states.

Eleazar · 08-07-2007, 12:30 PM

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Originally Posted by CosmicPal

Hell, the biggest rip off of all has to be Starbuck's. $2.00 for coffee? $4.00 if you want a fuggen latte.

Not to mention the fact that most of their coffee tastes like sh#t.

sedated · 08-07-2007, 12:32 PM

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Originally Posted by CosmicPal

For instance, Chipolte. Good food for fast food, but the fact is- your $6.00 burrito maybe cost them no more than .50 to make. They have a total of a dozen ingredients in that whole store, so the profit market is astoundingly high.

at least those ingredients are good.

I agree it is more of a rip-off now that they've raised their prices, but I'd rather pay $6 for some real chicken or steak, than $5 for grade-D beefish substance at a fast food place.

BIG_DADDY · 08-07-2007, 12:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Baby Lee

On a flier, looked at the menu for my local OG.

Mussels in white wine reduction
Chicken Spedini with tuscan potatoes and grilled vegetables
Venetian Apricot chicken with broccoli and asparagus
Parmesan crusted tilapia with grilled vegetables
herb grilled salmon with seasoned broccoli
Pork filletino
Chianti braised short ribs
T-bone.

No pasta on these.

In all fairness I haven't eaten there in 4 years now. Their big promotion is all you can eat pasta, lettuce and bread sticks which is how I remember them. The 2 times I did go the food was the worst Italian food I have ever seen. Chef Boyardee in the house. My dog eats better than that. I wouldn't eat there if it was free.

BucEyedPea · 08-07-2007, 12:35 PM

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Originally Posted by ChiefsfaninPA

I hate trying to eat with that much noise. But the kids love that place.

Sorta like a restaurant as an amusement park!

Definitely overpriced but fun.

Also a rip off even with kids: Chuck E. Cheese and Steak and Steak as some have mentioned.

Olive Garden is mediocre but I gotta admit they have one of the best Pasta e bundle of sticksioli soups and shrimp scampi siciliana brushetta. They'll even leave out the pasta for my allergy if they can. But it's definitely chain food and doesn't do real Italian justice.

**Baby Lee** · 08-07-2007, 12:36 PM

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Originally Posted by BIG_DADDY

In all fairness I haven't eaten there in 4 years now. Their big promotion is all you can eat pasta, lettuce and bread sticks. Has been for awhile now. The 2 times I did go the food was the worst Italian food I have ever seen. Chef Boyardee in the house. My dog eats better than that.

Why do you keep calling it lettuce?
In the panoply of chain italian restaurants, OG is one of the few to go beyond lettuce, to include red onion, artichoke hearts, black olives, tomatoes and pepperocini.
Like I said, we don't have an OG nearby, and all the italian restaurants we have nearby, including a 'gourmet' non-chain restaurant, actually are lettuce and dressing only. They don't even have pepperocinis in the building [I've asked]. The 'gourmet/upscale' restuarant actually has a decent salad of heart of romaine, pancetta and site made dressing, but they don't have anything to add to it. Take it or leave it.

cookster50 · 08-07-2007, 12:37 PM

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Originally Posted by KC Kings

The Dish Pizza is overpriced also. You can pay $18 for a medium supreme and wait 30 minutes to get it, or you can walk across the parking lot to Price Chopper, buy the same thing for $8 and go cook it yourself. .

You are lucky to only wait 30 minutes. Every time I've been there the wait is outrageous, even when they aren't busy.

Eleazar · 08-07-2007, 12:37 PM

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Originally Posted by sedated

at least those ingredients are good.

I agree it is more of a rip-off now that they've raised their prices, but I'd rather pay $6 for some real chicken or steak, than $5 for grade-D beefish substance at a fast food place.

The ingredients might be healthier but if you put most of the stuff they have sitting on that steam table getting soggy all day on your burrito, I bet that thing is >= 1000 calories.

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