Valentines Day

We have never celebrated Valentine's Day. Every day should be special in some way, a love gift should be a surprise and thought of by you out of your heart... not by some corporation/restaurant to manipulate everyone to buy substandard products for people they care about at inflated prices one day a year.


Try a test, eat at the same restaurant and by flowers for the same price two weeks later and see the difference... it will sicken you.

[monster]

Originally Posted by rkzenrage

We have never celebrated Valentine's Day. Every day should be special in some way, a love gift should be a surprise and thought of by you out of your heart... not by some corporation/restaurant to manipulate everyone to buy substandard products for people they care about at inflated prices one day a year.


Try a test, eat at the same restaurant and by flowers for the same price two weeks later and see the difference... it will sicken you.

[Aliantha]

Originally Posted by rkzenrage

We have never celebrated Valentine's Day. Every day should be special in some way, a love gift should be a surprise and thought of by you out of your heart... not by some corporation/restaurant to manipulate everyone to buy substandard products for people they care about at inflated prices one day a year.


Try a test, eat at the same restaurant and by flowers for the same price two weeks later and see the difference... it will sicken you.

Why would there be a difference? I don't get that rkz. I'd love it no matter what day of the year it was, and I'd say most other women (or men) would feel the same.

[xoxoxoBruce]

I think he's referring to the inflated prices and poor service from the V day crush. Two weeks later you'd get probably three times the flowers for the same money, and an unharried wait staff will give you much better service in a much more pleasant atmosphere.

[skysidhe]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

I think he's referring to the inflated prices and poor service from the V day crush. Two weeks later you'd get probably three times the flowers for the same money, and an unharried wait staff will give you much better service in a much more pleasant atmosphere.

I don't know. The owner of the cake shop was out shaking peoples hands last night. I do agree with the inflated price of cut flowers though. Buying oneself flowers to plant is the the kind of gift that keeps on giving.

[monster]

Originally Posted by skysidhe

Buying oneself flowers to plant is the the kind of gift that keeps on giving.

Unfortunately, so is food poisoning

[Shawnee123]

Originally Posted by monster

Unfortunately, so is food poisoning

I'm eating a salad I made fresh myself...iceberg lettuce, celery, snow peas, a bit of cottage cheese (no dressing.) But the nightly news keeps spouting off about the Green Death of e coli. That which is supposed to be healthy now instills fear!

I better go have a cig and some beers. :p

[skysidhe]

Originally Posted by monster

Unfortunately, so is food poisoning

You got food poisoning as a gift??

[monster]

Originally Posted by skysidhe

You got food poisoning as a gift??

No, but one might if one was taken to a restaurant which was paying more attention to the v-day profit potential than to the quality of food and service.

Originally Posted by Aliantha

Why would there be a difference? I don't get that rkz. I'd love it no matter what day of the year it was, and I'd say most other women (or men) would feel the same.

Other than chain restaurants, which is assembly-line food to begin with, real restaurants turn into assembly-lines on Valentine's day. They hire temp workers (the reason foot got sick, plus management is rarely there), usually limit their menu to have less complicated/tasty/fresh/original foods, they over-book increasing wait times and causing service problems, and inflate their prices for the less valuable food above the prices of their normally better food.
You are gonna' get dressed-up canned and frozen food at one-and-a-half to twice what a real chef's meal will cost there on a normal day, while being waited on by an amature...just so Hallmark can sell a card.
"I love ya' hun", I don't think so.
I know this because I quit after refusing to do this and told every restaurant that I gave my resume' to that I would not.
Florists do the same thing on a much worse scale.

[Aliantha]

Originally Posted by rkzenrage

Other than chain restaurants, which is assembly-line food to begin with, real restaurants turn into assembly-lines on Valentine's day. They hire temp workers (the reason foot got sick, plus management is rarely there), usually limit their menu to have less complicated/tasty/fresh/original foods, they over-book increasing wait times and causing service problems, and inflate their prices for the less valuable food above the prices of their normally better food.
You are gonna' get dressed-up canned and frozen food at one-and-a-half to twice what a real chef's meal will cost there on a normal day, while being waited on by an amature...just so Hallmark can sell a card.
"I love ya' hun", I don't think so.
I know this because I quit after refusing to do this and told every restaurant that I gave my resume' to that I would not.
Florists do the same thing on a much worse scale.

We went to a restaraunt in the city and there was nothing assembly line about it. The only difference between val day and any other day was the glass of champagne and chocolate rose for the ladies on arrival.

I can understand your cynicism, however I think it's misplaced as far as most people are concerned. Just because you make one special day during the year doesn't mean couples don't have other special days too.

[footfootfoot]

Originally Posted by rkzenrage

Try a test, eat at the same restaurant and by flowers for the same price two weeks later and see the difference... it will sicken you.

I ate at a restaurant like that once, never again. Riding the porcelain bus at 3:00 is not my idea of a good time.