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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why shouldn't Indian food be expensive? [/quote]

I’ll bite. With the exception of a very few innovative chefs in places like New York. You don’t have fine dining or high end Indian food. Same is true for Ethiopian food my favorite and other ethnic cuisines. The few top level chefs doing stewy ethnic cuisines are usually also trained in French techniques, doing some fusion, and upgrading the usual quality of the proteins.

Until Indian restaurants upgrade beyond what every other Indian restaurant serves at lower price points ,it’s just overpriced.[/quote]

Give me a break. This smacks of disgusting racism.  As if the only way ever to cook good food and finer foods is only if you have a background in French style techniques and culinary arts. What a joke. A throughly mediocre Italian restaurant has no problem charging $25-35 for chicken or veal parm (as of those are such innovative dishes). Or $20+ for a pizza.  And people will pay.  Meanwhile, the same consumer will complain that Indian food like lamb biryani is ‘expensive’ if it starts approaching the $25 mark even though it is way more labor intensive to make.  They’ll demand biryani always cost less than $20.

It’s just an asinine, subliminal mental block based on ethnocentric stratification BS of what is perceived as ‘finer’ cuisine vs ‘cheaper’ foods.  How come you never, ever find Italian, French, Spanish, and other western cuisines always on the list of ‘top cheap eats!’ lists?  It’s always gotta be other ethnic cuisines.  [/quote]

So why don't Indian restaurants charge higher prices? If it's because people won't pay it, then that's because they don't want it.

Nobody is sitting around calculating what they are willing to pay for restaurant food based on the labor involved, etc. They are thinking about whether they want to eat it.[/quote]

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