[jyl]

We’re taking here about whether current menu item prices are posted on the restaurant’s *website*, right?

(Not about whether prices are on the menu itself, that you see when you are at the restaurant and about to order.)

Maybe it depends on the kind of restaurant.

For example, there’s a place I go to every couple months. They change their menu often, even daily, depending on what is available. They don’t have the current menu or prices on their website. It’s a locally well-known place, has been around a quite a while, “farm to table” kind of place, dinner for two usually ends up around $250 including drinks, maybe a modest wine, and tip. No takeout or DoorDash, strictly a sit down place. The omission doesn’t seem to bother the customers. No-one is price-shopping that place’s $42 entree against a competitor’s $38 entree, etc.

Other than that they don’t need to, I think updating their menu and prices online would be a pain. The executive chef is handling two restaurants, he already works 12 hours a day, he doesn’t have time to update the web site daily and may well not know how to do that.

I do think that is the exception - most places I go to have more of a “set” menu, with full menu information and prices online - but if the place I described is the “type” of place you tend to go to, then not seeing prices online may be common.