Originally Posted by
GRALISTAIR
not good -that is fraud
Originally Posted by
VivoPerLei
Fraud or not, it would appear that these bait and switch maneuvers are somewhat common according to how many people post about them. I suspect the restaurants can always say it was an honest mistake. I would think getting people to pay would be the hard part
I recall a slick attempt at that at a decent DC area restaurant a few years ago, where they were out of the wine we requested, and the sommelier said, "Let me bring you something very similar."
Well, price wasn't apparently part of the similarity as it was 3x or 4x as much. My chef friend who was dining with us about blew a gasket over the switcheroo.