Home @ 01 Feb 2007 09:58 am by Christina Waters
Can someone tell me what happened to Malabar? Vegan never looked so good, or tasted so intense. But suddenly, poof!, it’s gone. Where?
Would the addition of a fixed service charge to a restaurant dinner, for example, 10%, stop patrons from going out to eat? Would it help if you knew it was going to equalize the take-home pay between kitchen staff and table servers?
Relax everybody. I know what happened to Malabar. I got plenty of emails setting me straight. Malabar is scheduled to re-open on Front Street hopefully in our lifetimes. Stay tuned.
I would rather see the price of menu items increased by 10% across the board than to have it reflected in a “service charge” line item on the bill. Certain costs are inevitably going to be passed on to the customer but I’m not sure if this is the correct way to achieve that end. Very solid question though. Isn’t this what O’mei recently began doing?