Are you saying asshole is on the menu? How is that prepared? I was thinking maybe it/they would be boiled in Peruvian sea water served with pickled Mastadon cutlets over a Black Gilliflower apple sauce. Just like Mom used to make. I♥NYC

NYC♥assholes...or at least allows them to carve out a niche of long-term survival.

NewportBarGuy: crappy New York-style pizza

What the fark is that? Excuse me, smitty. Are you a goddamn bread bowl pizza fan?!

How dare you!

This!

NewportBarGuy: crappy New York-style pizza

What the fark is that? Excuse me, smitty. Are you a goddamn bread bowl pizza fan?!

How dare you!

Love crispy pizza. That casserole slop Chicago serves makes me want to vomit.

Rincewind53: Yeah, as they pointed out in the comments, the restaurant is violating all kinds of consumer protection laws by charging prices like that without disclosing them first; multiple portions of the U.C.C., New York's specific law requiring that any mandatory gratuity be disclosed up front, etc...

If you find yourself in such a situation, offer them a reasonable price, and when they refuse, leave your contact information and tell them to sue you for breach of contract.

I doubt they'd let you do that. They'd call the cops and report you for skipping out on the meal. You'd be dealing with a criminal trial, not a civil one.

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the cabbage on the green, dude.

Eddie Murphy shows how to settle a high dinner bill in Tower Heist lol

/too tired to go make a screen grab

Even at those prices (especially?), how does a NYC restaurant stay in business with such a poor reputation?

This is why you should always go to major chain restaurants like Applebee's whenever you travel. You'll be overcharged for shiat food, but at least you won't be caught off guard by anything.

You're not necessarily paying for food. You're paying to not sit with people who can't afford to be there.

it can't be "New York style" if it's in New York, it's just pizza.

Satanic_Hamster: Rincewind53: Yeah, as they pointed out in the comments, the restaurant is violating all kinds of consumer protection laws by charging prices like that without disclosing them first; multiple portions of the U.C.C., New York's specific law requiring that any mandatory gratuity be disclosed up front, etc...

If you find yourself in such a situation, offer them a reasonable price, and when they refuse, leave your contact information and tell them to sue you for breach of contract.

Who would order not knowing what the prices are?

Dinner specials frequently don't have a price mentioned. They're normally around the price of the most expensive thing on the menu, give or take a few bucks (if the special is an aged tenderloin, you know it's going to be pricy). It sounds like here they're an order of magnitude more expensive. Someone should break the guy's kneecaps.

How does everyone not immediately walk out without paying?

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You're not necessarily paying for food. You're paying to not sit with people who can't afford to be there.

I'll just sit at home an wait for the Papa John's driver to show up.

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Went there on a business lunch, me and two other guys. You walk in to a very nice room and are swarmed by staff. The very highest level of service. You are handed menus without prices. We each had a glass of wine, a salad and a bowl of pasta. They were all spectacular. We were then handed a bill for $1,250.00. Unconscionable. It was covered by the company but was a source of great embarrassment for me to get suckered like that. Nello should die of cancer.

Kanemano: it can't be "New York style" if it's in New York, it's just pizza.

It's ALWAYS pizza if it's NY pizza in NY; everything else needs qualifiers, like Chicago "pizza", Domino's "pizza", frozen "pizza".

/yes, the quotes are needed
/Chicago "pizza" is yummy, but it just farkin' ain't pizza

Rincewind53: If you find yourself in such a situation, offer them a reasonable price, and when they refuse, leave your contact information and tell them to sue you for breach of contract.

Uh, I hate to point out that you walk away from a bill and you can be arrested for theft of services. That's right, they could call the cops on you, it's a crime. At best you could report them to a bored bureaucrat at a consumer protection office and maybe they'll get fined.

This is a common scam some places, when combined with strip joints. The girl takes you to a table and orders drinks. You find out your drink is like $200 and a guy with huge muscles comes to get your credit card. He is careful not to actually coerce or threaten you, but somehow he remains between you and the door. Legally you're basically boned. Most legit businesses don't do this because they want repeat customers. Scammers don't give a shiat.

What I would do at this "restaurant" is grab my chest, pant a lot, and get very sick all over the place, and the servers, using my finger if necessary to help things along. Tablecloths would get pulled. Maybe they'll get my money but I'll get hundreds of dollars worth of fun out of it. Maybe a bunch of people could go here and do the ipecac thing.

The menu is what gets them in the door, if it's not posted outside most people won't take a second look, if it is, and there's a lack of prices, that won't help either.

Just tell them your Abe Froman..The sausage king of Chicago..And put it on your tab..Problem solved..

I find it amazing how an entire city is obsessed with over sized cheese toast. Or as they call it, "pie"

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Someone poop in a pizza box?

A friend of mine works on the Nissei stock exchange, last time I went go to visit we went to a strip club with a $300 cover change for each of us, his company paid but, daaaamn

downtownkid: Went there on a business lunch, me and two other guys. You walk in to a very nice room and are swarmed by staff. The very highest level of service. You are handed menus without prices. We each had a glass of wine, a salad and a bowl of pasta. They were all spectacular. We were then handed a bill for $1,250.00. Unconscionable. It was covered by the company but was a source of great embarrassment for me to get suckered like that. Nello should die of cancer.


Just rtfa. Wow. We were even bigger suckers than the writer, as we ordered lobster salad specials for apps and pasta specials with truffles. Shame on us. The one thing I'll take issue with, though, is the quality of the food. It was quite good, just criminally overpriced.

Different people like different types of pizza. More at 11.

If you can't see the prices, don't order it.

Or at least order at a recognizable chain where you have some inkling as to the prices.

That said, at those prices, perhaps people assume they are just missing the decimal point.

BoingBoing is the Andy Rooney of the web. Just posting crap they know very little about.

I'm not saying Xeni, Rob, and the rest of the BB editorial staff are losers, but they are.

ArcadianRefugee: /Chicago "pizza" is yummy, but it just farkin' ain't pizza

Funny thing, Chicagoans don't eat it much

/ We feed it to the tourists

shiatty food?
Over priced?
Bad Service?
Time to call Gordon Ramsey

I would surely pay up at those prices, with a smile on my face, right after I received a beej from a beautiful A-list actress of my choosing.

If you buy something without knowing what it costs, you're a retard.