Restaurants buy ingredients at a discount, cook the meals with the minimum number of low-paid immigrants, rely on you to pay the waiters, provide no employment benefits, charge $9 for a hamburger, and even scrimp on electricity by only turning the lights on half way. To increase business, they pump the food full of flavor enhancing chemicals bordering on drugs regardless of whether or not it's healthy. Then they play games, having the waitresses ask you if you want chives on your baked potato so they can charge you an extra dollar for what you assume to be free since a sprinkling of chives is so cheap. Restaurateurs live in palaces and drive cars their entire staff combined could never afford, so I'm skeptical of a claim that restaurants have low profits. Electronics stores have low profits.

Outback sucks. I ordered a rum and coke, which was a $5 drink on their menu. When I got the bill I discovered they were trying to charge me $8 for that slightly amber colored glass of ice water they served me. When I complained, the waiter said "Oh, we ran out of the house brand of rum, so we had to use Bacardi, and it's $3 extra for that". I was livid. First of all, it's not my fault if they can't keep their bar stocked, and secondly Bacardi isn't even very good! Can you imagine being such a greedy bastard that you could come up with a policy like that? I sure can't.

-Eric