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Originally Posted by ard

Ben thanks for the context and I sympathize with the vagaries in your world. However, you are misinterpreting my post. I am not saying restaurants (or anybody else for that matter) cannot raise prices; prices are a key lever in a free supply and demand economy. I am simply complaining, lightheartedly truth be told, about something, namely price transparency (seemingly) being taken away from me. Will that stop me cold from going to restaurants? No, but I'll gripe about it. Now, to be sure, there are "things" we buy without the benefit of price transparency, health care being the most egregious example, where I cannot see what I am on the hook for until the deed is done, irreversibly.

And on top of the insanity posted by Ben P, I think most restaurants pay someone to create their website for them, and most restaurant folks probably don't have the ability to update the website themselves or any guaranty that an update will happen in a timely manner (or hell, they may have to pay for updates).

So restaurant pays, probably a ton for a nice website, but the manager knows how to run a restaurant but either doesn't have access to the website or even if they did, doesn't really know how (websites aren't exactly a word document behind the scenes).
Ok, so the manager isn't the guy. THen the manager has to call "the guy" and the guy says "I'm busy, I'll get to it sometime in the next two weeks. Oh, and by the way, it's going to cost you $$$." (I have no idea, but I could see it costing several hundred or up to $1k for updates. Or the restaurant may have to pay a monthly retainer to the website guy.

So, it makes sense to leave the prices off.

I get it, I prefer to see the prices too, but I get it if I cant.