$8 for a fountain soda?

[Anonymous]

Is it wrong for me to be outraged that City Perch in Pike and Rose charged $7.95 for a Diet Coke? A fountain one, by the way - it’s not like they weren’t importing Mexican coke in bottles or anything. When I got home, I looked online to see if it shows up on the menu, and it doesn’t. Is this the new going rate?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is it wrong for me to be outraged that City Perch in Pike and Rose charged $7.95 for a Diet Coke? A fountain one, by the way - it’s not like they weren’t importing Mexican coke in bottles or anything. When I got home, I looked online to see if it shows up on the menu, and it doesn’t. Is this the new going rate?

Whatever are you prattling on about

[Anonymous]

Yea, that’s a crazy price. I hope they had free refills!

[Anonymous]

Are you sure it wasn't a mistake? Wow. As you said, I can get cheaper "luxury" soda at Whole Foods.

[Anonymous]

That's like a movie theater price.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That's like a movie theater price.

And at a movie theater, you’d get a much larger cup.

[Anonymous]

This would have never happened at the white flint food court.

[Anonymous]

What a ridiculous price

[Anonymous]

Drink water.

[Anonymous]

I guess they need to recover the price of people who get an "water" cup.

[Anonymous]

Wow. Yeah I’d be annoyed too.

[Anonymous]

Wow that’s insane. You could’ve gotten a beer for that money (just looked at their menu and that’s literally what the beer costs). Was the soda price posted?

[Anonymous]

My local diner charges $4.50 now but $8 is crazy.

[Anonymous]

Seems normal to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Seems normal to me.

You have got to be kidding. $8 is in no way normal for a fountains soda.

In general I will buy cocktails at restaurants but will never buy sodas, lemonades, beer or wine because of the 4-5x markup when it takes no skill and I can have the exact same thing at home for so so much cheaper.

But I am happy to pay for skilled chef and cocktail making skills.