Just how is any self respecting gold-digger supposed to know what the most expensive item is on the menu so she can order it.
No self respecting gold-digger would order the second, never mind the sheer horror of ordering third most expensive meal on the menu.
It was a travesty and I am glad it has been addressed.
“Ladies’ Menus” used to be an unremarkable thing, decades ago.
Couldn’t the free market have handled this? No, but seriously, I know we can’t allow businesses and customers to make their own decisions: they might make the wrong ones!
George: Can I say one word to you? Lobster. The lobster here is unbelievable. (looks at the menu) Ooh, a little expensive.
Sasha: Twenty five dollars.
George: Yes, well, you know, I’m not thinking about the price. You know you’re the only woman I’ve never thought about the price. Get the lobster. I beg you to get the lobster. Go for the lobster.
Sasha: George, George, uh, I think we have to talk. I think we have a problem.
George: We do?
Sasha: We can’t keep seeing each other.
George: Why?
Sasha: (crying) Because it’s over. *sob, sob, sob* It’s my parents, the differences in our religion. Oh George, can you ever forgive me?
*sob*
Waiter: Uh, have you decided yet?
Sasha: (crying) Yes. I’ll have the lobster.
George: Um, you know I’m starting to think that maybe lobster isn’t the way to go.
First, via TripAdvisor, La Rosa Nautica is only rated as number #132 out of the 3,000 restaurants in the Lima region. So it’s hard to say it’s so ‘fine’ to be considered luxury.
Second, if you read through the first 20 reviews on TripAdvisor, a number say it in a blunt way...it’s romantic, but the food just isn’t the high of quality that you can find in various other restaurants in the city.
Third, if you went and asked most women about what drives the choice of a restaurant...the bulk will say the romance factor, or the friendly nature of the staff. Most guys will tell you that the food on the menu, the quality of the food, and the pricing are the factors for picking a restaurant.
Finally, I will offer this opinion...being sixty and having eaten at 3,000 restaurants/cafes in my life (in the US, Australia, New Zealand, and throughout Europe)...the best food I ever ate was a mom-and-pop Italian shop, for less than 8-bucks. It was a hole-in-the-wall entry...way off the main street, with a ceiling fan blowing hot air around, and barely ten tables in the whole place, and all the Italian women running it were a minimum of sixty years old.
Pah! If it were truly a luxury restaurant the prices wouldn’t be listed in any of the menus. If you have to ask the price, you can’t afford it.
Coming soon: 1/2 portion of jalapeno poppers @ $65,000.00.
At least she admits it.
If it is done just as a goof when they see a couple come in, then it isnt a big deal. It’s like if they gave the food items in each menu a different funny name (e.g. her menu calls it the “He’s Paying Steak” and he will have the “3rd Base Wings”).
Obviously with both menus there, they will both know the cost of stuff if it becomes an issue. And if a woman was eating along, they are obviously going to give her a menu with prices.
Maybe the cycles of civilization are inevitable: ascendancy, abundance, decadence, dark age, ascendency, abundance, decadence, dark age, ascendency, etc.
William Faulkner laid it all out beautifully in Absalom! Absalom!.
Edward Gibbon did it even more beautifully and in great detail: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
It's an old, old story.
The morons never learn. They can't. They're morons.
Funny thing about morons: they think they're intelligent. There are millions in America today. They vote Democrat and believe the propaganda blaring from the "news" outlets. They don't know they're morons. Don't bother to try to tell them. They can't understand.
Apparently Peru's full of morons too. It's probably a certain percentage of any human population. Maybe that's why civilization is cyclic. If it were not for the morons, perhaps civilizations could stay permanently in the age of abundance.
There's nothing fun about a dark age. Recent years have shown that there's not much fun in the decadent period either, at least not for the cognoscenti. We who lived through America's age of abundance are lucky--the luckiest people in history. Thank God for that blessing!
So now it’s the transgender menu for all? /s
$100 fine for different men/women’s menus, $60k fine for no transgender menu?
Just order the lobster, rookie!
This astute observer has noticed that it’s the male of the species who pays in restaurants the vast majority of the times.
This restaurant was only acknowledging reality.
I’ve had that happen once or twice. I just ask for a different menu, I don’t take them to court.
Never saw it myself, but Mom told me that practice was common in upscale restaurants back in the day. I’m surprised any place today would have it, but I applaud them for their nostalgia. I am not surprised that some triggered snowflake would raise a fuss about it and have the policy changed. If some civil servant deemed I would pay $62000 as a result of giving a woman a menu without prices on it, I’d be looking up his address.
If that was the logic behind the decision then this guy should have gotten a better lawyer. Two simple questions would negate that argument: if a woman asked for a menu with prices would she be given one? What was the policy if two women ere dining?
There’s a new BBQ restaurant near me that has an online menu without prices........The first time I went to their website I was going to order a take out but when I saw it had no prices, I decided against it.
The article skips over something important:
Which menus were the trans-people given?
Did the proffered menus match their preferred pronouns?
This is a private business and should be allowed to provide whatever menu they darn well please to their customers. If the customers don’t like it they are free to patronize elsewhere.
None of the government’s business.
I’m thinking the men’s menu had appetizers of raw oysters and saltpeter salad.
Women’s appetizers included the rohypnol shrimp, followed by the GBH minestrone.
Feminists. Is there anything they can’t screw up?
It will soon be illegal for a man to show more romantic interest in women than in men.
It is already politically incorrect.
Such menus used to be common practice. This is in the days when it was the norm for a man to pay for his female companion’s meal. The theory was she should feel free not to worry about cost and just enjoy her dinner.
Now you no more are likely to see these than you are the sign “jackets and ties required”. Oh and for those gentlemen who forgot such - usually one could be obtained from the
maitre d’.