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Old May 6, 2013 | 4:20 pm
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Originally Posted by Doc Savage
I stopped in Burlingame, CA after getting back into SFO, and saw an interesting restaurant with a menu I liked posted out front. After being seated and served my water, I saw that the menu I was given had prices about 20% higher than those posted at the entrance. When I brought this up with the server, she became flustered and stammered something about "those prices aren't good anymore." I just shook my head and left when she couldn't come up with any other response.
A few weeks ago we were staying in Dubrovnik and visited Nautika - an upmarket resaurant - and looked at the menu on the way into town. We liked it so decided to return for lunch. When we returned the menu we had previously seen had been removed and a different one substituted. It was a strange menu as it had a few fixed menus of the day priced in Euros and the rest of the menu priced in Kuna. The euro menus seemed a bit mean at 18 euros each but was clearly designed to extract euros from the cruise busses and other tourist busses which stopped outside the door to decant tourists into Dubrovnik town. A waiter hovered whilst we read and as we now couldn't be bothered to walk back into town we allowed the waiter to show us to a nice table on the terrace. "Lovely" my wife said. They then gave us a completely different menu to either of the ones we saw previously and had eye-watering prices. I repeat, this menu was a third menu and was not displayed outside, was different from the lunch menu we saw an hour or two previously and the one we had only just seen outside.

I asked for the menu displayed outside and was told that I would have to sit at another table if we wanted that menu.

On the basis that I never reward rudeness or tourist scamming with my hard earned cash we left and went next door to to a lovely place - the waiter even gave us a 10% off voucher to be used for our stay.
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