{"id":12108,"date":"2015-02-12T09:00:49","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T14:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=12108"},"modified":"2015-02-12T07:34:51","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T12:34:51","slug":"restaurants-prefer-you-skip-dessert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/restaurants-prefer-you-skip-dessert\/","title":{"rendered":"Restaurants Prefer You Skip Dessert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/021215_1229_Restaurants1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"354\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Roberto Ferman writes that most eateries would prefer you skipped the sweet dish:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>While diners are willing to pay $20-$30 for entrees, they are rarely willing to pay even close to that amount for dessert.<\/li>\n<li>Yet desserts require the same high quality ingredients as other entries on the menu, driving margins down.<\/li>\n<li>Dining establishments also have to hire a specialist pastry chef and reserve space in the kitchen to serve you pudding.<\/li>\n<li>Some restaurants have given up on serving their own desserts and instead just outsource it to third party companies.<\/li>\n<li>But this doesn&#8217;t solve the problem of diners hanging around, preventing the next set of paying customers from getting a table.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read why restaurants want to encourage the consumption of dessert wines, why Yelp means that the dessert menu lives on, and more over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/wonkblog\/wp\/2015\/02\/10\/why-restaurants-dont-always-want-you-to-order-dessert\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/wonkblog\/wp\/2015\/02\/10\/why-restaurants-dont-always-want-you-to-order-dessert\/\">The Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roberto Ferman writes that most eateries would prefer you skipped the sweet dish: While diners are willing to pay $20-$30 for entrees, they are rarely willing to pay even close to that amount for dessert. Yet desserts require the same high quality ingredients as other entries on the menu, driving margins down. Dining establishments also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-12108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin","tag-foodonomics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/021215_1229_Restaurants1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12108"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12111,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12108\/revisions\/12111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}