@Dave-bj3pq it seems you havent been to McDonald's in a while. I can grab a great meal for $20, or a 6pc nuggets and fries combo... it might just be my area
@@Dave-bj3pqit’s not about being too poor to order it’s about knowing what I’m paying for so I have proper knowledge of what I’m spending. If I’m buying a high quality guitar I’m not gonna suddenly want a cheap poor quality instrument suddenly because I don’t know the price, I just want to know I’m spending $1500 for it
Restaurants want as much turnover as possible, so they do not want you to stay. Video should be renamed 'All the Ways Restaurants Trick You Into PAYING.'
I'm a creature of habit. I usually get the same thing when I go out to eat, and if I'm going somewhere I've never been to, I'll look at the menu online so I know what I want when I get there.
I just learned Im not the customer businesses want. Dont drink, dont have a cell phone, know what I want to order before I sit down, dont order desert because it's never big enough, hate chatty wait staff, dislike eating in low light, and dont care if I look cheap to anyone.
I'm similar - don't drink, don't like dessert, I'm vegetarian so usually check the menu ahead of time and don't waste time looking at most of the sections since they have meat, can't stand dim lighting, and would prefer the waitstaff leave me alone as much as possible.
I no longer eat out. Restaurants are getting so shady with hidden fees, obligatory gratuitity in the bill and the expectation of another tip on top of it, tip inflation, lowering quality and bad service from rude waitresses, never refilling the tea, etc, all while prices skyrocket. I cook from home and never have to deal with pissy waitresses expecting a huge tip for giving me nothing but an attitude and neglect, I don't have to deal with sub-par food for high prices, them cheaping out on proteins and overfilling with carbs, and other sneaky ways they jip you. I also HATE the heavy menus, heavy cutlery, and huge heavy plates, i had no idea they did that on purpose. Infuriating! I'd rather cook at home. Faster, easier, cheaper, better, more comfortable. Restaurants have jumped the shark and they need to go die. The drink prices are insane too, it's now $18 for the typical cocktail in my city. meanwhile I can make my own at home for less than a dollar. And if there aren't prices on the menu, I get up and leave. I don't care if I look rude, I won't be a doormat to abusive business practices. Boomers had way too much income per their qualifications so they indulged in wasteful practices like constantly eating out. My generation isn't flush with easy cash the way those pigs were, so we're more choosy with how we spend what little money our jobs pay us and our landlord doesn't rob from us. Long term restaurants are going to have a bubble pop. There are way, way, way too many of them and they all suck. It's just food. I eat it and then I poop it out later. I'll pay money for a nice sweater because it lasts years. I won't pay crazy prices for a meal I eat in ten freaking minutes. Give me a break. Restaurants are way too greedy. As boomers die off they're going to mass shutter. Only a boomer is dumb enough to go out and pay $25 for an omelette that I could make in five minutes.
As a veteran server for over a decade, to maximize profits, I stay home and cook my-damn-self. It honestly is therapy to cook and experiment. I get an extra full meal or two for leftovers. And when t-bones and rib eyes drop below $6/lbs, it's on!
We went there once and will never go back. For two people for LUNCH, with one dessert and no alcoholic beverages, it was $75. Before tip. That was it for me.
Great video topic!! 😊 I fell for the membership app at a smoothie shop that was right outside my university. I went there a few times before someone mentioned it to me and they sold me on the arbitrary point system towards a free drink with only one ingredient. There isn’t even a one-ingredient smoothie on the menu. But I went even in the winter 😂 I moved away and months later the poor app was still on my home screen. They weren’t a franchise 😅
Lol, I was thinking that 😂. Never been a server, but I have always felt nervous hanging out. My family wants to hang around and I feel like the restaurant wants us outta there! There was one place I really liked; A Terrible Beauty. It was a pub type restaurant in Seattle; soooo good. It's a sit down place, and they have a stock of games like Scrabble. They expanded too fast (4-5 locations), and maybe something about taxes. But they closed all but one... Unclear if that last place closed. I hope it's still around (I've moved now)
Ok, lemme clarify one thing for y'all: yes, I work in restaurants, no, I'm not a server, lol! No, I have the more important job: I am a hydro-ceramic engineer, and I'm usually one of the last ones out. I don't deal DIRECTLY with Karens and Darrens, but I still feel shockwaves. AND I WANT A SHOWER🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Anyone remember a syndicated cartoon show from the 70s called WAIT TILL YOUR FATHER GETS HOME? In one episode, the family that's the subject of the show goes to a restaurant where they seemed to try every trick in the book to get you--like the name of the burger chain that would come up many years later--in n' out. As fast as reasonably possible. Which seems to be more the norm than trying to get you to stay. Buy more, yes. Leave better tips, yes. Stay? Probably not (though there could be exceptions.)
I used to go to a restaurant which had a very stupid concept of maximum 90 min!. I think they misunderstood the table turn over concept, coz the restaurant was never over half full. Needless to say, the restaurant closed down even though the food was really good.
Ihop here in Southern Arizona tricked us into staying by not delivering food after a 45 minute wait, with 6 other customers in the building. We followed other frustrated customers out of the door. We never went back.
2:48 Interesting fact: Tipping came around because of prohibition from what I was told once. In other countries, like Japan. you don't need to leave a tip in a restaurant. As a kid later on in the US I got confused why we were leaving one.
We have tips in Japan but it's rare and for EXTREMELY good service. I get a lot lately since my side hustle is Uber Eats (by motorcycle) and it's a billion degrees with maximum humidity. It's less common in spring and autumn.
I can't remember the last time I was asked if I want to see the dessert menu. In fact, more often than not, the servers will drop the checks before we even have a chance to express whether or not we want dessert. I see this a lot in many restaurants these days. Not sure why. But there have been a few times I actually wanted dessert and had to let the server know as they dropped our check. So then they have to take the check back and redo it. It's almost like dessert is a thing of the past.
One of the newest tricks a pizza restaurant uses to get customers coming in , is to have a fan placed just above the door of the restaurant, that sends the smell of cooking Pizza outside
worked in many restaurants growing up and learned much of this stuff from that. the whole color schemes do nothing for me as i am color blind. I generally go into a place order my normal food, read a book and eat then leave so im not the ideal customer at all. dont do deserts and dont ever order wine. dont like being attended to every few minutes.
maybe this was true in the "before times"-- these days consumers don't expect quality, value, or customer service. I haven't had a good customer service experience in years and I don't blame the workers. The food quality and quantity has diminished while prices keep increasing. Even the big chains are lucky to stay open with a skeleton staff, and smaller establishments that managed to make it through 2020-2022 have eliminated hosts and waiters entirely. What is this "atmosphere"? What is this "service"? Seriously? This video was true when the middle class wasn't being squeezed so hard and companies felt like they needed to even keep people happy lol
I think I’m one of the people the “golden triangle” doesn’t work on, then: I start reading anything from the top left, then bottom, and almost ignore the top right. (It may be from my game developer days: quite a few programming and creative desktop apps place the brushes or project layout at the top left and have a timeline or status on the bottom.)
Moe's burritos tried to stick to that naming convention for so long with their standard burrito being called a "joey bag of donuts" which is some old italian slang for calling someone fat. It was never common slang outside italian communities in the rust belt and east coast, more specifically Philly. I HATED ordering it with it's real name, but most of their burritos are a variation of meat, rice and beans with you picking the rest of the toppings, so you had to either use the slang name through the cringe, or call it "the regular one". They had those kids so trained to use the names, they really wanted you to say it. They closed their location in my town, and I didn't see another one for 4-5 years. Decided to pop in and see if it was still good, and to my supreme excitement-- it's just |#1 now, or the standard burrito. They dropped the bullshit on the other names too but that one was the only one I absolutely HATED saying. I'ts a fuckin burrito dude, your attempt at whimsy just made not go as often lol.
I would wager that the majority of the servers are not trained the least bit. Most of them are ill equip to do their jobs. They lack any real skills or listening powers.
Most waiters get surprised that I'm the one covering the bill, when out with a group. Kinda funny the one no one expects is the one that has the wallet full. Always wondered why but now I know
I don't eat at sit-in restaurants where I have to wait to be fed. Ever. If I have to wait to be served and tip, it's not happening. With that said, you should always tip your servers if you do choose to eat out. It's unfair to them and shows bad form.
3:15 This has never occurred in ANY restaurant I've ever worked in. We don't have time to wander around with food for nobody, who the fuck wrote this?!?
Swag is non existent. I have never been to any fast food, chain or a number of locations place that has swag. Not even stickers or anything. Most of these places lack real marketing skills and the majority of their restraunts lack skill in layout, restrooms, work flow. I best most places work out how they are going to shove as many seats in to their place rather than finding out the best work flow. So many places are empty, crowded, crazy that many people hate going to places.
Glad I don't fall for any of these tricks. First, I don't eat fast food at all. 2nd no matter restaurant I go for basically same thing in all of them. And the wait staff walking buy, I don't even notice them. So glad me n gf only go out twice a month.
Many many moons ago I went to a culinary school. (OK I was a Johnny Whaler.) We had a class in menu planning. Where we were instilled with the Idea of more copy. IE: Hamburger on a toasted bun with lettuce and tomato, French fries. vs A cooked to perfection fresh ground beef patty. On a lightly toasted bun. Topped with ripe red garden fresh Tomato. And Crispy green lettuce. Along with a avalanche of crunchy golden french fries. And remember You first eat with your eyes. Sight before bite.
This is all true if you work at OG, or Cheesecake Factory - maybe - but as one who has worked true fine dining (Four Seasons and Independents) those customers want knowledge about the products and not gimmicks; I always made more when I recommended things based on the consumer’s taste profiles they shared than me suggesting some bs high priced item(s). Which by the way IMO Cristal is garbage and Justin regular is just as good as Isosceles.
Having ANOTHER Weird History drink! Drinking a glasss of ice water from the ThinQ Ice & Water refrigerator system*†...while watching this Weird History video! * Inspired by the Weird History videos about technological advances. † The Ice & Water System is on the left door, there are two doors that open up.
Every single restaurant in London has its menu--with prices--clearly posted outside, so you know exactly what a place will cost and what they will offer before you step inside, and as a tourist, the transparency is much appreciated. I feel like the American way relies on shaming or bullying to get business.
Huh? Many (if not most) restaurants in America post their menus outside and on a website. There's no "American way" of secrecy. And if you are surprised when you go inside, you can always leave without ordering. You are really stretching to find something to criticize here.
I travel a LOT for work and pleasure. A large number of non-chain restaurants in bigger cities have their menus posted outside, and like the person above said, you can see it online. If you're getting "tricked" that's totally on you and your inability to open your eyes and LOOK AROUND.
Been to a lot of places in the US, and around the world. The only places I have been near that haven't put prices on the menu are pretentious wannabe high-end places. That is in the US, Australia, some parts of Europe. Most restaurants have prices somewhere... outside or at least on the menus inside. so really not sure where this "American way" comes from.
I can't imagine any of these "tricks" working on customers. This sounds like a lot of pseudoscience designed by corporate pinheads to justify their own paychecks. Kind of like you asking us to comment on the video. And who among us is still duped by upselling? I find it hard to believe people don't have a good idea of what they want or how much they want to spend before walking into a restaurant.
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Absolutely HATE the trend of not listing prices on the online menu
Yes! And they force us to type in our location before revealing prices.
In nice places, the person paying gets a priced menu, the guests get non-priced. (I worked at a high end place for 20 years)
If price is a concern then go to McDonald's.... problem solved
@Dave-bj3pq it seems you havent been to McDonald's in a while. I can grab a great meal for $20, or a 6pc nuggets and fries combo... it might just be my area
@@Dave-bj3pqit’s not about being too poor to order it’s about knowing what I’m paying for so I have proper knowledge of what I’m spending. If I’m buying a high quality guitar I’m not gonna suddenly want a cheap poor quality instrument suddenly because I don’t know the price, I just want to know I’m spending $1500 for it
Restaurants want as much turnover as possible, so they do not want you to stay. Video should be renamed 'All the Ways Restaurants Trick You Into PAYING.'
I'm a creature of habit. I usually get the same thing when I go out to eat, and if I'm going somewhere I've never been to, I'll look at the menu online so I know what I want when I get there.
You are me 🥲
"The dollar symbol discourages customers"
Uh no the number discourages customers lol
Please do The History of Chili's & Applebee's Restaurants
Oh, I make sure they let me leave. In fact, they usually insist on it!
It’s so weird how the lights go out and the doors get locked whenever I pull into the parking lot
@@Tonyhouse1168 Oh.. you must be Tony. Yeah, they got a picture up near the cash.
I just learned Im not the customer businesses want. Dont drink, dont have a cell phone, know what I want to order before I sit down, dont order desert because it's never big enough, hate chatty wait staff, dislike eating in low light, and dont care if I look cheap to anyone.
I'm terminally married and I no longer care what people think haha.
@@mbralliablewhat does marriage have to do with restaurants
I'm the same, though I have a cellphone because I listen to my audiobook while I'm there.
Restaurants hate him. He looks unprepared but in fact knows it all. This one simple tactic saves him hundreds.
I'm similar - don't drink, don't like dessert, I'm vegetarian so usually check the menu ahead of time and don't waste time looking at most of the sections since they have meat, can't stand dim lighting, and would prefer the waitstaff leave me alone as much as possible.
Extra points for the Monty Python reference.
Mr. Creosote!🤮🪣
I no longer eat out. Restaurants are getting so shady with hidden fees, obligatory gratuitity in the bill and the expectation of another tip on top of it, tip inflation, lowering quality and bad service from rude waitresses, never refilling the tea, etc, all while prices skyrocket. I cook from home and never have to deal with pissy waitresses expecting a huge tip for giving me nothing but an attitude and neglect, I don't have to deal with sub-par food for high prices, them cheaping out on proteins and overfilling with carbs, and other sneaky ways they jip you. I also HATE the heavy menus, heavy cutlery, and huge heavy plates, i had no idea they did that on purpose. Infuriating! I'd rather cook at home. Faster, easier, cheaper, better, more comfortable. Restaurants have jumped the shark and they need to go die. The drink prices are insane too, it's now $18 for the typical cocktail in my city. meanwhile I can make my own at home for less than a dollar.
And if there aren't prices on the menu, I get up and leave. I don't care if I look rude, I won't be a doormat to abusive business practices.
Boomers had way too much income per their qualifications so they indulged in wasteful practices like constantly eating out. My generation isn't flush with easy cash the way those pigs were, so we're more choosy with how we spend what little money our jobs pay us and our landlord doesn't rob from us. Long term restaurants are going to have a bubble pop. There are way, way, way too many of them and they all suck. It's just food. I eat it and then I poop it out later. I'll pay money for a nice sweater because it lasts years. I won't pay crazy prices for a meal I eat in ten freaking minutes. Give me a break. Restaurants are way too greedy. As boomers die off they're going to mass shutter. Only a boomer is dumb enough to go out and pay $25 for an omelette that I could make in five minutes.
Wow. The Scallops Dinner is only $9.40 I’ll take two please! Geez what year was that?
Probably started with a 1.
As a veteran server for over a decade, to maximize profits, I stay home and cook my-damn-self. It honestly is therapy to cook and experiment. I get an extra full meal or two for leftovers. And when t-bones and rib eyes drop below $6/lbs, it's on!
Amen! It tastes better and you know what's in it!
Thank you for your service 😅
Because of where I live, take out, drive through and food delivery are not an option so any food NOT cooked by me, is utter luxury
@@joeybaseball7352 Also a Military Veteran, I doubly appreciate your sense of humor.
I'm the opposite, I can't stay in a dark restaurant. There's a restaurant that has a menu that looks like a novel, The Cheesecake Factory
We went there once and will never go back. For two people for LUNCH, with one dessert and no alcoholic beverages, it was $75. Before tip. That was it for me.
Great video topic!! 😊 I fell for the membership app at a smoothie shop that was right outside my university. I went there a few times before someone mentioned it to me and they sold me on the arbitrary point system towards a free drink with only one ingredient. There isn’t even a one-ingredient smoothie on the menu. But I went even in the winter 😂 I moved away and months later the poor app was still on my home screen. They weren’t a franchise 😅
Dude, I WORK in restaurants, and the last thing I WANT is for most of these losers to STICK AROUND. No, it's 10 minutes to close, I want to go home!!!
I'm crying now
Lol, I was thinking that 😂. Never been a server, but I have always felt nervous hanging out. My family wants to hang around and I feel like the restaurant wants us outta there!
There was one place I really liked; A Terrible Beauty. It was a pub type restaurant in Seattle; soooo good. It's a sit down place, and they have a stock of games like Scrabble. They expanded too fast (4-5 locations), and maybe something about taxes. But they closed all but one... Unclear if that last place closed. I hope it's still around (I've moved now)
If you don't watch Bistro Huddy, you really should. Not only would you relate as a server but you're basically Nicole lmao
Ok, lemme clarify one thing for y'all: yes, I work in restaurants, no, I'm not a server, lol! No, I have the more important job: I am a hydro-ceramic engineer, and I'm usually one of the last ones out. I don't deal DIRECTLY with Karens and Darrens, but I still feel shockwaves. AND I WANT A SHOWER🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Why are they losers? Maybe they have better jobs than your loser self that works at a restaurant.
Do you only have stock footage from 1984 or what is happening here ?.???
Anyone remember a syndicated cartoon show from the 70s called WAIT TILL YOUR FATHER GETS HOME? In one episode, the family that's the subject of the show goes to a restaurant where they seemed to try every trick in the book to get you--like the name of the burger chain that would come up many years later--in n' out. As fast as reasonably possible. Which seems to be more the norm than trying to get you to stay. Buy more, yes. Leave better tips, yes. Stay? Probably not (though there could be exceptions.)
I used to go to a restaurant which had a very stupid concept of maximum 90 min!. I think they misunderstood the table turn over concept, coz the restaurant was never over half full. Needless to say, the restaurant closed down even though the food was really good.
Yes! One of my favorite narrators of this channel!
Ihop here in Southern Arizona tricked us into staying by not delivering food after a 45 minute wait, with 6 other customers in the building. We followed other frustrated customers out of the door. We never went back.
I see no prices on the menu, I see me never coming back. Hate that ish
8:58 wow Bennigan’s. They left my neck of the woods in the 80’s. I had no idea they still existed.
Pretty accurate vid. I was a Bev manager at a private place for a very long time.
Idk man in america the avg staying time is like 40min to a hour and overseas its multiple hours so idk if they will tricking to stay
It's 100% illegal to not show the currency after the price number in the EU.
2:48 Interesting fact: Tipping came around because of prohibition from what I was told once.
In other countries, like Japan. you don't need to leave a tip in a restaurant. As a kid later on in the US I got confused why we were leaving one.
Ah, interesting!
We have tips in Japan but it's rare and for EXTREMELY good service.
I get a lot lately since my side hustle is Uber Eats (by motorcycle) and it's a billion degrees with maximum humidity. It's less common in spring and autumn.
What I don’t want to see in menus is the calorie count of every item!😜
What's with the multiple servers coming to my table to ask how my first bites are? Leave me alone LOL. If there's a problem, YOU'LL KNOW.
It’s a turn off to me how painstakingly engineered the entire experience is. It’s totally a science.
I can't remember the last time I was asked if I want to see the dessert menu. In fact, more often than not, the servers will drop the checks before we even have a chance to express whether or not we want dessert. I see this a lot in many restaurants these days. Not sure why. But there have been a few times I actually wanted dessert and had to let the server know as they dropped our check. So then they have to take the check back and redo it. It's almost like dessert is a thing of the past.
One of the newest tricks a pizza restaurant uses to get customers coming in , is to have a fan placed just above the door of the restaurant, that sends the smell of cooking Pizza outside
The next time I go to a restaurant I've been to multiple times, I'll check the items in the golden triangle and see how often I've ordered that item.
Nobody likes restaurants that don't have a price on their menu 😂😂😂😂
Facts
Gonna watch, but...most restaurants these days are pushing you out the door so they can flip the table.
worked in many restaurants growing up and learned much of this stuff from that. the whole color schemes do nothing for me as i am color blind. I generally go into a place order my normal food, read a book and eat then leave so im not the ideal customer at all. dont do deserts and dont ever order wine. dont like being attended to every few minutes.
maybe this was true in the "before times"-- these days consumers don't expect quality, value, or customer service. I haven't had a good customer service experience in years and I don't blame the workers. The food quality and quantity has diminished while prices keep increasing. Even the big chains are lucky to stay open with a skeleton staff, and smaller establishments that managed to make it through 2020-2022 have eliminated hosts and waiters entirely. What is this "atmosphere"? What is this "service"? Seriously? This video was true when the middle class wasn't being squeezed so hard and companies felt like they needed to even keep people happy lol
Resturants want "turn & burn"... not wanting to stay...
Yeah nah. The restaurants I worked in had a 40 minute ideal. You want to flip those tables to make more money not keep ppl hanging out.
I think I’m one of the people the “golden triangle” doesn’t work on, then: I start reading anything from the top left, then bottom, and almost ignore the top right.
(It may be from my game developer days: quite a few programming and creative desktop apps place the brushes or project layout at the top left and have a timeline or status on the bottom.)
Moe's burritos tried to stick to that naming convention for so long with their standard burrito being called a "joey bag of donuts" which is some old italian slang for calling someone fat. It was never common slang outside italian communities in the rust belt and east coast, more specifically Philly. I HATED ordering it with it's real name, but most of their burritos are a variation of meat, rice and beans with you picking the rest of the toppings, so you had to either use the slang name through the cringe, or call it "the regular one". They had those kids so trained to use the names, they really wanted you to say it. They closed their location in my town, and I didn't see another one for 4-5 years. Decided to pop in and see if it was still good, and to my supreme excitement-- it's just |#1 now, or the standard burrito. They dropped the bullshit on the other names too but that one was the only one I absolutely HATED saying. I'ts a fuckin burrito dude, your attempt at whimsy just made not go as often lol.
😂 except...the customer is not always right. Remember that was a ploy by Big Ad Marketing in the 1950s.
I miss when restaurants used to be fun.
@ 4:28 but nearly all menus are digital now because they were germ invested disasters that were never cleaned lol😂
I am glad I'm one of the few people who hates going out to eat.
It's just utter luxury to be offered food cooked by ANYONE but me🫤
I would wager that the majority of the servers are not trained the least bit. Most of them are ill equip to do their jobs. They lack any real skills or listening powers.
Most waiters get surprised that I'm the one covering the bill, when out with a group. Kinda funny the one no one expects is the one that has the wallet full. Always wondered why but now I know
good video
Thanks for this! 🍽
I don't eat at sit-in restaurants where I have to wait to be fed. Ever. If I have to wait to be served and tip, it's not happening. With that said, you should always tip your servers if you do choose to eat out. It's unfair to them and shows bad form.
Did anyone else catch the monti python reference ? Not sure if it was intentional however 😂
3:15 This has never occurred in ANY restaurant I've ever worked in. We don't have time to wander around with food for nobody, who the fuck wrote this?!?
I think that may have been at least part of the idea of the sizzling fajitas. So the attention of everyone in the dining room gets drawn to them.
@@cgraham6 I'll accept that.
Swag is non existent. I have never been to any fast food, chain or a number of locations place that has swag. Not even stickers or anything. Most of these places lack real marketing skills and the majority of their restraunts lack skill in layout, restrooms, work flow. I best most places work out how they are going to shove as many seats in to their place rather than finding out the best work flow. So many places are empty, crowded, crazy that many people hate going to places.
Restaurants don't work like that here lol, they want u to leave before u get out your vehicle and your lucky if u get a refill
8:03 nice Monty Python reference.
Glad I don't fall for any of these tricks. First, I don't eat fast food at all. 2nd no matter restaurant I go for basically same thing in all of them. And the wait staff walking buy, I don't even notice them. So glad me n gf only go out twice a month.
That’s because happy customers spend more
Many many moons ago I went to a culinary school. (OK I was a Johnny Whaler.) We had a class in menu planning. Where we were instilled with the Idea of more copy. IE: Hamburger on a toasted bun with lettuce and tomato, French fries. vs A cooked to perfection fresh ground beef patty. On a lightly toasted bun. Topped with ripe red garden fresh Tomato. And Crispy green lettuce. Along with a avalanche of crunchy golden french fries. And remember You first eat with your eyes. Sight before bite.
Gen X Food #6305: Bennigan's Free Monte Cristo Sandwich with Bennigan's Points
Except Bennigan's pretty much doesn't exist anymore
I miss Bennigan's!
This is all true if you work at OG, or Cheesecake Factory - maybe - but as one who has worked true fine dining (Four Seasons and Independents) those customers want knowledge about the products and not gimmicks; I always made more when I recommended things based on the consumer’s taste profiles they shared than me suggesting some bs high priced item(s).
Which by the way IMO Cristal is garbage and Justin regular is just as good as Isosceles.
They're persuading you, a trick implies it's dishonest.
Trick me into staying? Yes
Trick me into tipping? No
So brave of you to punch down at the low-wage employees
@@toadslick thank you 😊
what is this channel becoming? can we do more history about food :D
Having ANOTHER Weird History drink!
Drinking a glasss of ice water from the ThinQ Ice & Water refrigerator system*†...while watching this Weird History video!
* Inspired by the Weird History videos about technological advances.
† The Ice & Water System is on the left door, there are two doors that open up.
Every single restaurant in London has its menu--with prices--clearly posted outside, so you know exactly what a place will cost and what they will offer before you step inside, and as a tourist, the transparency is much appreciated. I feel like the American way relies on shaming or bullying to get business.
Huh? Many (if not most) restaurants in America post their menus outside and on a website. There's no "American way" of secrecy. And if you are surprised when you go inside, you can always leave without ordering. You are really stretching to find something to criticize here.
I travel a LOT for work and pleasure. A large number of non-chain restaurants in bigger cities have their menus posted outside, and like the person above said, you can see it online.
If you're getting "tricked" that's totally on you and your inability to open your eyes and LOOK AROUND.
Been to a lot of places in the US, and around the world. The only places I have been near that haven't put prices on the menu are pretentious wannabe high-end places. That is in the US, Australia, some parts of Europe. Most restaurants have prices somewhere... outside or at least on the menus inside.
so really not sure where this "American way" comes from.
A+ video!
LOVE IT! Fascinating seeing some of the tricks of how restaurants are engineered!
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These “Weird” histories have kind of lost their way. The last few aren’t weird stuff at all just stuff in general
End of video shows Benigans. I thought they died out some 2 decades ago?
I can't imagine any of these "tricks" working on customers. This sounds like a lot of pseudoscience designed by corporate pinheads to justify their own paychecks. Kind of like you asking us to comment on the video.
And who among us is still duped by upselling? I find it hard to believe people don't have a good idea of what they want or how much they want to spend before walking into a restaurant.
WH has gone way down now!
Just like your mom
You didn’t talk to any restaurant people did you? This is total bullshit.
Chinese restaurants follow none of these rules 😆
There’s one thing any and all restaurants can do to make me come in more often, stay longer and order more: Lower Your Prices
Wrong narrator voice.
Boo-hoo
Wrong narrator voice...
DEI
@@chiquita683Y’all legitimately say this about anybody who isn’t a white male
@@robertmiller2367 your sexism is showing. Dammit, Bobby....
Go cry to mommy lil bit*h
Of all the voice-over people in the world, the fact they hired this one never ceases to surprise me. Her delivery is so stilted. She's terrible.
I miss when restaurants used to be fun.