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Joined: Aug 22, 2002
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The view from my perspective:
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Operating Tiki-Ti is a crapload of work. Can you imagine, year after year, every Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday when everyone else is having a great time, you're stuck in the same 4' square space, making the same damned drinks, over and over, for eternity? And then spending your rare downtime cleaning and fixing and prepping? Thank goodness they're willing to do it, because I'm not.
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Don't know what current prices are in that neighborhood, but five years ago I paid $8 for a Corona at a place just block from Tiki-Ti. A Corona. The new prices still sound low to me, compared to other L.A. prices. (Forbidden Island's prices aren't a fair comparison -- they're in a sleepy suburb, and you can bet FI's prices would be higher if it was in San Francisco, and considerably higher if it was in Hollywood.)
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I'd pay those guys twice what they're charging per drink, happily. In my book, they're earning it.
If you don't like the prices, you're entitled to that feeling. I just don't share it.
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