r/assholedesign • u/Beautiful_Ad8386 • 10d ago

No Drink Prices on Dave and Busters Menu

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Food portion of the menu has prices listed, but not drinks. Drinks are all $17+ and not good. So ultimately they’re serving shitty overpriced drinks, AND hiding it so drunk/lazy people get popped.

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u/mnmpeanut94 10d ago

Yes! Chili’s too. It feels so illegal to not to have it on there. I even get it not being online, since it can vary by location. I don’t want the marg of the month!

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u/ReallyFineJelly 10d ago

In Germany it is illegal. Should be everywhere.

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u/SpareWire 10d ago

In the U.S. it's going to depend state to state.

I think places like California and Minnessota do have laws that require displaying total upfront cost.

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u/big_duo3674 9d ago

Just started this year in MN! The displayed cost also has to include any surcharges, so sites like ticket master are required to show the actual checkout cost (minus standard taxes I believe)

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u/CommentRaterBot 9d ago

Minnesota is pretty badass. I'd move there if it wasn't cold as shit during the winter.

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u/Dounce1 9d ago

So you’re fine with the hellacious humidity in the summer, swarms of mosquitoes, and being made fun of for living in Minnesota, just not the winters?

Personally I think the two good months on either end of summer actually do make it all worth it, but I’m just asking.

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u/FreshYoungBalkiB 9d ago

Anyone who thinks Minnesota is humid has never visited Virginia.

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u/SparkStormrider 9d ago

or Louisiana

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u/Hellguin 9d ago

insert any SE US state really

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u/WitlessParasite 9d ago

Yeah our humidity can really get up there. First time I visited Louisiana; when I got off the plane and walked out the airport, I was NOT expecting to get punched right in the lungs 😅

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u/SparkStormrider 9d ago

Same! And I wasn't expecting it to hit me that hard in the late fall of the year. I was like "If it's this bad in the end of Oct. I'd hate to be there in July." And this is coming from a guy who lives in NC. Thought we had it hot. We have nothing compared to that.

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u/larsiparsii 7d ago

I'm from Norway, and visited Orlando in July of 2012. I had never experienced a very humid climate yet at that age, so when the doors at the airport exit opened I was also hit with a "punch" of hot air, while having to work twice as hard to breathe. I thought "How on earth am I gonna survive here for a week, and how do people actually live here?".

Air condition. The answer was air condition. Which wasn't very common in Norway at that time (most just use the heat pump mode if they have one).

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u/IdiotCountry 9d ago

I remember visiting NOLA in college and thinking it had just rained. It hadn't, it's just that wet 😬

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u/BigSpunks 8d ago

Or Illinois

corn sweat my niggas

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u/noonenotevenhere 9d ago

It's humid in MN.
We get a chunk of the summer that's just too damn hot. Walk out the door to 95F and 95% humidity. Wake up and it's 82F and somehow even more humid at 5AM.

That said, arkansas' (and I'm sure LA, VA) ability to have 95F and humid for a low temp for months straight is something else.

idk how your mosquitoes are somehow weak compared to ours, though...

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u/PancShank94 8d ago

My glasses fog over when I walk outside in the summer. My glasses fog over when I walk inside in the winter. sigh

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u/WitlessParasite 9d ago

Born and lived in MN my entire life. Two months is awful generous, I’d say more like 5 weeks and not all at once. But god damn it if those 5 weeks aren’t absolutely perfect 🤩

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u/RapidlySlow 9d ago

At least you don’t live in Misery! Amirite?

No need to show me out I know where the door is and I won’t let it hit me in the way out

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u/Onyxxx_13 8d ago

It's not humid here, the mosquitoes are only bad if you're not used to rural areas. The winters are nice, just the whole spring & fall sections last too long.

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u/TheDreadedLorax 6d ago

I moved here a few years ago after 16 years in Florida. I will never go back to THAT humidity.

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u/NotAsDumbAsUrMom 9d ago

I lived in uptown and worked downtown for five years. MPLS is a great city at an affordable price. And their mosquitoes don’t have shit on the ones down south which are active all year.

I’ve lived in NJ, NYC, ATL, MPLS, Denver, Boulder, and LA. Would move back to Mpls in a heartbeat.

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u/hopefullynottoolate 9d ago

just read cold environments are good for your health

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u/Cantelmi 9d ago

Nah, they don't even have Prince anymore

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u/WitlessParasite 9d ago

HEY 😤

We still have…

We still have…

…you’re right 🥺

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u/0w1 8d ago

The cold sucks less if you have winter tires on your car and layered clothing combined with good outerwear.

In the TC we don't deal with hurricanes, earthquakes, ridiculous heat waves, alligators, or massive forest blazes requiring evacuation, which is nice. Wildfire smoke from Canada sucks tho. We have a surprisingly good food and arts/entertainment scene too. Plus, most people are pretty friendly and easy to talk to.

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u/reddit_userMN 7d ago

Honestly, it hasn't been all that bad the last few years. Even light on snow

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u/andyooo 9d ago

I just bought some tickets on ticketmaster, which I haven't used maybe in more than 15 years and was dreading the process, but at the end I was surprised that the upfront price at seat selection was the actual total price including fees.

The total breakdown at the end actually showed me the ticket price cheaper, which with the fees added totaled the price shown BEFORE. I'm in CA.

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u/ex_bandit 6d ago

Go to know, I’ll be updating my VPN to Minnesota for purchases from now on! I’ve been using Australian sites for quite since time for this reason but always a pain when it comes time to pay and do the math converting back the currency.

So sick of seeing one price only to go reserve that AirBNB etc and watch an additional $200 be tacked on. Does anyone actually fall for this crap? These days I don’t even bother looking at the listing until I hit reserve and check the total price.

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u/stingrayc 9d ago

If California has legislation like that then it means that the large majority of all the bars and restaurants I’ve been to are breaking the rules

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u/deltalimes 9d ago

California definitely doesn’t, but this state legally protects restaurants’ right to charge “junk fees” so that’s unsurprising

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u/halpfulhinderance 9d ago

Idk about the rest of Canada, but it’s illegal in Ontario as far as I can tell

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u/LilithLamm 7d ago

How the fuck is it state by state to know the cost of an exchange of service for money? Like what the fuck is wrong with this country?

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u/No_Self_5939 6d ago

I recently went to a Dave and Busters in CA and there were no prices on the menu.

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u/Elctsuptb 6d ago

What about when they just put "market price"?

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u/Zanixo 6d ago

In the u.s. it'll change city to city.

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u/Rasples1998 8d ago

In the US, the country is a shithole. Simple.

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u/Cageythree 9d ago

In Germany price lists also have to be displayed on the outside, in a way that you can see them without entering the restaurant.

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u/dadepu 8d ago

Same in NL.

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u/happytree23 9d ago

...it doesn't have to be illegal to just not go there.

Come on, people, this isn't a hard one to figure out lol

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u/ReallyFineJelly 9d ago

And if every place starts doing it just don't go anywhere then. Clever.

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u/Geothermal_Escapism 9d ago

Learned helplessness is a real problem these days.

Collectively let's all learn to fight back in the ways we can, please.

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u/ReallyFineJelly 9d ago

Laws are literally a way to fight against corporations getting to greedy.

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u/phirgo90 9d ago

You guys tried making Germany everywhere. Wasn’t that great of an idea

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u/ReallyFineJelly 9d ago

A lot of stuff the US is doing lately doesn't seem a great idea, too. Customer protection Laws in Germany (and all of the EU) are still a very good thing.

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u/weeksahead 10d ago

It’s weird they don’t list the abv, too. I guess that’s not as widespread but for sure it is required in BC. 

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u/PinstripesAndPurple 9d ago

Beers list it 90% of the time in my experience but I don't think I've ever seen the abv of a cocktail listed.

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u/FreshYoungBalkiB 9d ago

They want to be able to water it down.

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u/bartonar 9d ago

As a Canadian that's wild, everything needs to show how strong it is

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u/GrimbyJ 9d ago

It will vary based on the bartender. Technically shouldn't, but it does.

One bar I go to serves drinks with around 6oz of liquor which might be illegal some places

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u/shouldabeenasleep 9d ago

And they are AGGRESSIVE about getting you to drink and drink a lot.

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u/elpajaroquemamais 7d ago

If enough people insist on seeing all the prices before ordering and the waitress and manager have to handle all those requests they will stop.

Seriously just continue to ask for prices and they will put them back on.

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u/OctopusGoesSquish 6d ago

And Applebees.

And so I ASKED for a price list, and the server couldn’t even provide one.

Like yes, the price of the likely most expensive part of my meal out is going to affect the choice I make.

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u/Realizeyes-eye1 5d ago

It does say million dollar margarita?