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Finn McCools Irish Pub Sosua
All they'd have to do is do a menu in EXCEL with formulas where you change the exchange rate and all the prices are immediately changed.
They can either print them again each time they change, or have a screen with the prices where everyone can see them, just like the fast food places have.
Easy peasy.
He is currently accepting pesos at a 50 to 1 rate because it will probably reach that rate very soon. So anyone who pays in pesos is actually coming out slightly ahead right now. He has no desire to take advantage of his customers on the peso-to-dollar rate. He is going to take pesos at or near the current rate. As frank12 says his menu is in dollars so he doesn't have to constantly reprint his menus.
That's one of the main reasons I don't give Kahuna my valuable custom!
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The menus are checklist throwaway menus. You use a pen to check the items that you want on the menu and give it to the waitress. The waitress brings you your order in a to-go bag. You can either eat it there or take it with you. He's doing this because he has a counter right on the sidewalk where you can order food without even coming into the restaurant. He's doing it this way because he expects a lot of to-go business. That's why the menus are in the dollars. You use them once and throw them away.
Reprinting the menu has nothing to do with anything. All stock is paid in pesos not American dollars. If suppliers raise their prices he has to reprint menus either way. The price of chicken fluctuates almost weekly by a few pesos. One week you win and the other week you lose. Nobody is reprinting menus constantly or even yearly.
Big Frank will get a lot of repeat business from people who remember him from his Jose O'Shay days. I've talked to a lot of people who are absolutely thrilled to see him in Sosua. They're not going to care whether the menu is in dollars or pesos. People don't go to Big Frank's place for the menu. They go there because he makes them feel at home. He'll get enough repeat business where he won't have to worry about pleasing a bunch of old grumpy people who are worried about having to do dollar-to-peso conversions. He'll do just fine without them.
There’s a guy right outside with a small hotdog stand (on the stairs between Finn McCools and the liquor store). It’s only open at night and his “Dominican style” hot dogs are only 50 pesos. He’s been there for years and seems to do a decent amount of business. I’ve stopped there multiple times after a “night on the town” and you don’t even have to get out of the car. Just roll down the car window, stick your hand out with a 100 peso note and say “Dame dos para llevar por favor”. One of the genuinely “fast food” places I’ve come across as he usually has them all ready to go wrapped in foil (he does high volume. Good turnover).
Yes, Cachi has been there for over 20 years. His hot dogs are a meal with all the trimmings. 50 Pesos, boom. My kids call him Senor Hot Dog. A must visit for us.
That looks perfectly fine, so business as usual - remember how many drinks you ordered and you're fine. I had envisioned hand written bills computed using an old battered abacus.
You guys need to step away from the keyboards. This thread instantly got hijacked by a USD to Peso debate that will go on for thirty pages.......
I visited the new place on Sunday and the bill was in pesos, I paid in pesos, received proper change in pesos and TIPPED in pesos (20% to make up for you cheap wads). The place is great, the location is great and the veteran staff.. well lets just say I'll be in there every Sunday when I'm not off island working - GO FINS>
I visited the new place on Sunday and the bill was in pesos, I paid in pesos, received proper change in pesos and TIPPED in pesos (20% to make up for you cheap wads). The place is great, the location is great and the veteran staff.. well lets just say I'll be in there every Sunday when I'm not off island working - GO FINS>
I can guarantee that you will get more drinks than you will pay for. I know Frank well.
There is some signs of real insanity going on here...people getting all hung up on a menu in dollars? Really? Is that the litmus test for not visiting a bar/restaurant?
Does anyone here ever go to the upscale restaurants in Santo Domingo? A lot of places have menu's in dollars. These are Dominican owned restaurants.
It's such a benign thing to get all hung up on.
Two of the people responding here i know very well. They're good people, but they're on very tight budgets. I get that. If you're on a tight budget, I understand it...everyone is on a budget to some degree. But to get so hung up...almost compulsive over a menu in dollars; Really?
Some people living on the North Coast do not blink an eye drinking Grey Goose at $12 a shot. Others here almost have a coronary if they do not get their beer for $2 dollars ($100 pesos) at Happy Hour. But ass soon as Happy Hour is over, they split!
People are different animals, with different tastes, and different depths of pocketbooks. To get all hung up on a menu in US currency is just weird.
PS. I do not work for Big Frank. I do not represent him in my opinions. I know him well. I've known as good as i know my own father. The man is generous beyond belief. He's not out to rip anyone off. But i will say this, I remember very vividly people coming to his St. Patrick's Day party and Superbowl party and buying their drinks across the street in order to save .50 pesos. .50 pesos!
Here is a man dropping $4,000 dollars on a party and flying the entertainers & dancers down from Philadelphia, and people went on Facebook (some of the women had husbands working as managers at Barrick Gold Mine! Making big money!) and bragged about getting their beers from other places to save .50 pesos. >50 pesos!
This is insane.
I'm sorry, some levels of cheapness is nothing to brag about. And yet, people do it. If i don't have money, i don't go out. Period. I certainly do not go to someone's party, and then go onto FB and brag about saving .50 on a beer while enjoying the free entertainment paid by someone else.
Some people need a reality check.
Does anyone here ever go to the upscale restaurants in Santo Domingo? A lot of places have menu's in dollars. These are Dominican owned restaurants.
It's such a benign thing to get all hung up on.
Two of the people responding here i know very well. They're good people, but they're on very tight budgets. I get that. If you're on a tight budget, I understand it...everyone is on a budget to some degree. But to get so hung up...almost compulsive over a menu in dollars; Really?
Some people living on the North Coast do not blink an eye drinking Grey Goose at $12 a shot. Others here almost have a coronary if they do not get their beer for $2 dollars ($100 pesos) at Happy Hour. But ass soon as Happy Hour is over, they split!
People are different animals, with different tastes, and different depths of pocketbooks. To get all hung up on a menu in US currency is just weird.
PS. I do not work for Big Frank. I do not represent him in my opinions. I know him well. I've known as good as i know my own father. The man is generous beyond belief. He's not out to rip anyone off. But i will say this, I remember very vividly people coming to his St. Patrick's Day party and Superbowl party and buying their drinks across the street in order to save .50 pesos. .50 pesos!
Here is a man dropping $4,000 dollars on a party and flying the entertainers & dancers down from Philadelphia, and people went on Facebook (some of the women had husbands working as managers at Barrick Gold Mine! Making big money!) and bragged about getting their beers from other places to save .50 pesos. >50 pesos!
This is insane.
I'm sorry, some levels of cheapness is nothing to brag about. And yet, people do it. If i don't have money, i don't go out. Period. I certainly do not go to someone's party, and then go onto FB and brag about saving .50 on a beer while enjoying the free entertainment paid by someone else.
Some people need a reality check.
@ frank12, relax this is dr1 and nothing said here matters in real life. it is what it is. can you find me one thread that didn't have a bunch of silliness involved?
Long gone are the days when dr1 was actually a helpful message board for tourists and new expats........ long gone
Long gone are the days when dr1 was actually a helpful message board for tourists and new expats........ long gone
Well, Lindsey, it would be disingenuous to say he buys drinks for every single person who walks into his bar or sits with him. but if you are a regular, and you shoot the sh1t with him enough, he will buy you a drink. He loves conversation, and he loves stories.