Monday, May 15, 2006

Soda Thoughts

$2.19. $2 freakin' 19. For a fountain coke!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! That's what I paid at O' Charley's yesterday. I have to wonder where restaurants have their head these days as they raise the prices on high profit items through the roof. For those of us who love a coke with our meals, we'll pay it. But for a large portion of people (at least in good ole' Kentucky), the more you charge, the more likely we are to order the dreaded water with lemon.

Considering that they probably pay about 10 cents a glass at most, I'm having a hard time understanding why restaurants would want to raise the price to the point where people switch to something you charge nothing.

And while we're at it, why aren't there more diet flavored soda offerings and more caffeine free soda offerings at restaurants?

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