Grated Cheese And Ground Pepper: When Did This Become A Luxury In Restaurants?

[Godfrey_Daniels]

@Chefguy

Where the hell do YOU live? Even in Alaska it’s no more than $12-13 a pound. You can mail order it for $12.99 a pound. I’d say you’re getting ripped off royally.

If I’m not mistaken, that’s $12.99 for 8 oz. Still, a pretty far cry from $40. per lb.

[Godfrey_Daniels]

@Godfrey Daniels

If I’m not mistaken, that’s $12.99 for 8 oz. Still, a pretty far cry from $40. per lb.

Well, hell. :o :smack: :special cut, my…:

[Shalmanese]

@tdn

Huh. Perhaps restaurants fear the loss out of proportion to the reality of it. Or that particular place has a classier clientel than most places.

Actually, the highest rates of theft come from the more expensive joints. People aren’t stealing them for financial reasons so much as for the thrill of it.

[Chefguy]

@Godfrey Daniels

If I’m not mistaken, that’s $12.99 for 8 oz. Still, a pretty far cry from $40. per lb.

Nope. One pound, $12.99. Perhaps you were looking at the one following it.

[Measure_for_Measure]

@Shalmanese

Actually, the highest rates of theft come from the more expensive joints. People aren’t stealing them for financial reasons so much as for the thrill of it.

This seems like a good candidate for a sting operation.

Those who are both privileged enough to eat at a $100+ restaurant and dishonest enough to pocket the odd grater or grinder are exactly the sorts of people who need a spell in prison. After all, they presumably have opportunities for less visible malfeasance; punishing instances of gratuitous and petty theft seems like a straightforward and relatively inexpensive method of identifying those unworthy of society’s trust.

[Eleusis]

Those who are both privileged enough to eat at a $100+ restaurant and dishonest enough to pocket the odd grater or grinder are exactly the sorts of people who need a spell in prison.

Nah, just make them bus tables for a few hours in front of their “colleagues”.