{"id":133,"date":"2010-01-09T18:51:30","date_gmt":"2010-01-10T02:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mike-brinker.com\/wordpress\/?p=133"},"modified":"2010-01-09T18:51:30","modified_gmt":"2010-01-10T02:51:30","slug":"restaurant-menu-tricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xoz.wri.temporary.site\/wordpress\/restaurant-menu-tricks\/","title":{"rendered":"Restaurant Menu Tricks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Menu Hijinx\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/images.nymag.com\/restaurants\/features\/balthazarmenu091214_560.jpg?resize=336%2C473\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"473\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/restaurants\/features\/62498\/\" target=\"_blank\">Great little post on NY mag<\/a> I found regarding menu&#8217;s in restaurants. \u00a0 This one covers the higher priced places but references some chain restaurant tricks as well. \u00a0I always knew there was a lot of pscycology behind advertisments in general but I hadn&#8217;t thought about the structure of a menu in a restaurant and how it contains all kinds of wonderful little tricks. \u00a0Give it a look over, I think you&#8217;ll find it interesting. \u00a0Oh, and apparently this is an excerpt from a book that will be coming out this year entitled<\/p>\n<p>Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value (and How to Take Advantage of It)<\/p>\n<p>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/restaurants\/features\/62498\/#ixzz0cAp0ckWi\">Author William Poundstone Dissects the Marketing Tricks Built Into Balthazar&#8217;s Menu &#8212; New York Magazine<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/restaurants\/features\/62498\/#ixzz0cAp0ckWi\">http:\/\/nymag.com\/restaurants\/features\/62498\/#ixzz0cAp0ckWi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think what is so fascinating about the article is not necessarily the content but what it implies about restaurant hierarchy and what the &#8220;do&#8217;s and don&#8217;ts&#8221; are of each tier. \u00a0My head is filled with images of a caste type system for the structure of restaurants; societal in nature. \u00a0I can see the higher priced cuisine restaurants that carry\u00a0specialty\u00a0items on the menu just sneering down at the chain food restaurants and their\u00a0despicable\u00a0habits, while the chains are looking at themselves with pride, touting a better, more healthy meal than those bottom of the barrel fast food joints. \u00a0And what do they have to look down on? \u00a0Taco trucks? \u00a0Street Vendors? \u00a0Sometimes those 2 am street vending hotdog guys can give you a run for your money there, Mr. Snooty fancy-pants restaurants! \u00a0Oh if only walls and carts could talk&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great little post on NY mag I found regarding menu&#8217;s in restaurants. \u00a0 This one covers the higher priced places but references some chain restaurant tricks as well. \u00a0I always knew there was a lot of pscycology behind advertisments in general but I hadn&#8217;t thought about the structure of a menu in a restaurant and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/xoz.wri.temporary.site\/wordpress\/restaurant-menu-tricks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Restaurant Menu Tricks<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3JQ0E-29","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xoz.wri.temporary.site\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xoz.wri.temporary.site\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xoz.wri.temporary.site\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xoz.wri.temporary.site\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xoz.wri.temporary.site\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xoz.wri.temporary.site\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xoz.wri.temporary.site\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xoz.wri.temporary.site\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xoz.wri.temporary.site\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}