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Category Archives: Economics of Dining
Six Rules for Dining Out
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“Invisible Hand to Mouth”
His goal now is to provide a guide to dining well anywhere, while minimizing risk of the Cowen nightmare, a meal that is an expensive bore. His commandments fall into two categories. The first is variations on a general mantra … Continue reading
Posted in An Economist Gets Lunch, Beautiful Women, Books
Tagged An Economist Gets Lunch, Graeme Wood
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The placebo restaurant
From Peter Seebach, I like this idea very much: This leads to a concept: A restaurant called Placebo. What do they sell? A 50% discount. Which is to say: The entire menu is framed with everything at about twice the … Continue reading
Posted in Economics of Dining
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Why is hospital food so nutritionally bad?
Mario Rizzo asks me: Why is hospital cafeteria food so poor from a nutritional point of view? Fried chicken, preservative-filled cold cuts, cheese everywhere, etc. Keep in mind I am not talking about the food served patients who may have … Continue reading
Posted in Atrocious, Economics of Dining
Tagged hospital food
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Interview with Tyler Cowen, pay-as-you-wish restaurants
This article is from Salon.com, I will reproduce the interview under the fold… Related Posts:
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The One Day a Week Restaurant
Eric Crampton emails me: Why don’t we see more of this? I went to the only Ethiopian restaurant in New Zealand last night. It runs one day a week – Mondays – in a Burmese restaurant that otherwise was closed … Continue reading
Posted in Economics of Dining
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Why was El Bulli losing so much money?
Leigh Caldwell offers an analysis. Here is one bit: …why is it losing so much money when demand is so high? The 48-seat restaurant has a six-month season with about 8,000 covers a year. It receives 300,000 applications for those … Continue reading
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Kebericho Deli Market
Kebericho Deli Market, 3811-c South George Mason Drive, Falls Church, VA, 703-578-6464 (Metro Trip Planner – opens in new window) It’s hard to keep track of all the burgeoning Ethiopian places in this mini-mall, but since they are all excellent … Continue reading
Posted in Beautiful Women, Ethiopian, Falls Church/Seven Corners, Virginia
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Standard dishes for testing the quality of a restaurant
Joshua Johnson, a loyal MR (and TCEDG) reader, asks: If you are going to a new ethnic restaurant, what staple items do you order that for you, let you know if the restaurant is worth coming back to and trying … Continue reading
Posted in Economics of Dining, General Tips
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In the Language of Gastronomy, Those Michelin Stars Translate as Dollar Signs
Receiving a Michelin star increases prices in a Parisian restaurant by 20 percent, controlling for measures of quality, décor and location. Michelin-starred restaurants in fancy hotels, or in areas with other Michelin-starred restaurants, also have higher prices, again adjusting for … Continue reading
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