For Freak's Sake, People, It's A Burger!!!
UPDATED: 6/17/09
I haveranted complained previously about the insanely high prices of burgers in the City. It's screwed to the max but the hits just keep on coming. The latest local resto to incite my burger pricing wrath is, unfortunately, my favorite City restaurant, COCO500.
My love of the COCO burger has been chronicled previously within these pages. Note from that entry the price ($10.00) and the date (3/3/08). I stopped in for a lunch burger this past Friday and was aghast. Price, $14.00; date, 5/28/09.
Peeps, that's a 40-freakin'-percent price increase in a less than a year-and-a-quarter during the worst economic times since the Great Depression!!! At $10, the COCO burger approached my pain point but was worth it once in a while as a treat. Now, no freakin' way on anything resembling a regular basis. Maybe once in a blue freakin' moon when I'm really, really jonesing for one but that's it.
Joining COCO 500, Eos and Joe's Cable Car (see above-linked posts for rants about the latter two) in the burger pricing Hall of Shame are La Terrasse ($13 hamburger, $15 cheeseburger), Orson ($20 hamburger) and South ($15 cheeseburger).
How 'bout y'all buying an espresso and a clue!!!??? It's a burger, for freak's sake, not a steak! There's absolutely no excuse for this horsepucky. It's pretentious or it's gouging or maybe it's pretentiously gouging. Whatever, it sucks!
If you want a great restaurant burger for under $10, check out the Bell Tower (1900 Polk at Jackson, no web site), the smaller lunch burger (note, ONLY the smaller lunch burger) at Bechelli's Flower Market Café or the Smaller Ass Burger at Brickhouse.
And please, please, eat overpriced burgers sparingly, if at all. If the supply side won't budge, let's lower demand to bring prices down so these burgers are merely expensive, not exorbitant.
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My love of the COCO burger has been chronicled previously within these pages. Note from that entry the price ($10.00) and the date (3/3/08). I stopped in for a lunch burger this past Friday and was aghast. Price, $14.00; date, 5/28/09.
Peeps, that's a 40-freakin'-percent price increase in a less than a year-and-a-quarter during the worst economic times since the Great Depression!!! At $10, the COCO burger approached my pain point but was worth it once in a while as a treat. Now, no freakin' way on anything resembling a regular basis. Maybe once in a blue freakin' moon when I'm really, really jonesing for one but that's it.
Joining COCO 500, Eos and Joe's Cable Car (see above-linked posts for rants about the latter two) in the burger pricing Hall of Shame are La Terrasse ($13 hamburger, $15 cheeseburger), Orson ($20 hamburger) and South ($15 cheeseburger).
How 'bout y'all buying an espresso and a clue!!!??? It's a burger, for freak's sake, not a steak! There's absolutely no excuse for this horsepucky. It's pretentious or it's gouging or maybe it's pretentiously gouging. Whatever, it sucks!
If you want a great restaurant burger for under $10, check out the Bell Tower (1900 Polk at Jackson, no web site), the smaller lunch burger (note, ONLY the smaller lunch burger) at Bechelli's Flower Market Café or the Smaller Ass Burger at Brickhouse.
And please, please, eat overpriced burgers sparingly, if at all. If the supply side won't budge, let's lower demand to bring prices down so these burgers are merely expensive, not exorbitant.
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