>From: "Gray, Lynn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>Do you typically purchase a beverage when you order take out? I know I
>don't
>(just take the food home and drink whatever we have there). If and I don't
>think I am mistaken on this restaurants have a higher margin on beverages
>than food would this explain at least part of your question?
I think you may be in the minority here - most people I know, when they buy
take-out, tend to buy beverages at the same place. An informal sample, to
be sure, so maybe it's a 50/50 split.
Also, I'm not sure where the "restaurants have a higher margin on beverages
than food" notion comes from, since food has much more detailed costs of
preparation, and is a bigger loss if produced in excess, than soda pop or
water. Unless I'm missing something really obvious (which is always
possible).
-JP
>Lynn
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Bryan Caplan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 12:25 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: take-in/eat out
>
>
>Is it just me, or does the discount for take-out dining seem way too
>low? You avoid paying a tip, yes. But you save the restaurant the cost
>of waiters, tables, space, etc. You might say that space is not really
>scarce except at peak times, but still, most dining is down during those
>peak times, no?
>
>The same goes for mail order vs. brick-and-mortar stores. The Internet
>crash makes it seem like mail order can't afford to discount 40% below
>brick-and-mortar. But why not? It sure seems like a website must be
>vastly cheaper to run than a physical store, especially when one website
>can do the work of thousands of local stores.
>--
> Prof. Bryan Caplan
> Department of Economics George Mason University
> http://www.bcaplan.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> "He wrote a letter, but did not post it because he felt that no one
> would have understood what he wanted to say, and besides it was not
> necessary that anyone but himself should understand it."
> Leo Tolstoy, *The Cossacks*
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