'Enforce Ramadan rates’ at restaurants
‘Enforce Ramadan rates’ at restaurants |
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By Ramesh Mathew |
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By timebandit •
@ timebandit,aptly put...thank you! :)
"Let them eat cake" is the traditional translation of the French phrase "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche", supposedly spoken by "a great princess" upon learning that the peasants had no bread. Since brioche was enriched, as opposed to normal bread, the quote supposedly would reflect the princess's obliviousness to the condition of the people. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_them_eat_cake
gadarene and Tinker have the gist of it I think
@ qatarisun,you're missing the point here...the restaurants in question ARE the bottom of the pile supposedly cheap places being referred to...the bachelor being referred to here isn't the single senior executive living in his fully furnished serviced apartment in west bay who actually has the option of cooking @ home...i imagine cooking can be a tad hard in bachelor accomodation where one shares a room with 3 or more other guys & the only thing even remotely resembling a kitchen is a little table top in the corner with a kettle & maybe a microwave...do you seriously think if these guys,who earn so little & send most of it home,had a choice, they would be eating in restaurants rather than cooking at "home"?...
nowreasonforsmile, all restaurants in the world use same "essential ingredients" such as flour, milk, oil...actually all restaurants use more or less the same set of the products this way or another.. and guess what, the prices in the different restaurants are hell different, from $1 per meal till $700-1000 and even more per dinner.I repeat, if one cannot afford expensive restaurant, he/she is dining in the cheap one. If one cannot afford the cheap one, he/she eats at home. What's wrong with that? ...and why is that "especially bachelors are being exploited"? Does it mean, for the married man it's easier to take the whole family to the restaurant, than for the bachelor to feed himself only?i am completely lost here.. wierd way of thinking..
@ timebandit,i am definitely in favour of control,no question about it,as Jewel7 correctly pointed out,the poor sods getting ripped off by these greedy restaurant owners don't exactly constitute a big demographic of QLers so we're not getting a true picture but i have spoken to some of these guys & i really feel sorry that they are exploited like this ironically in the month that is supposed to be about charity & giving...free market principles & subsequent free pricing are implemented with the understanding that the law or lack of it will not be taken advantage of,when greedy restaurant owners do just that,the Govt. must step in & control/enforce to protect the rights of the less privileged...
QL is definetely not populated by the Bachelors, who belong to the less income group, where they have no other option left out other than to depend on such small scale restaurents. Its pretty sad that those guys are being exploited !____________________________________________Good or Bad, Rich or Poor, Strong or WeakThe World Runs On Unequality !!!
I have copied and pasted both articles out of the Gulf Times. Interestingly, not one comment posted has been in favour of any control whatsoever. Yet GT seem to think that control is what is required. So what's behind this? Are we missing something? Is GT championing another demographic not represented on QL? Or perhaps the paper is preparing the populous for new incoming legislation that will be implemented like it or not. Do they know something we don't?
this is BULL
this is not china.
Price fixing in any way should not be allowed -- upwards or by the government controlled too.
In a normal country this is called supply and demand
how come no one ask to control the cost of a meal during new year if it is over 1500 QR per person with some lousy bubbly at some establishments?
This is the second such article carried by the Gulf Times in two weeks. So someone seems to think this needs addressing.
Essentiall ingredients for hotel cooking like flour milk oil and others are available on controlled rates now a days....
eat at home then.. or go to the cheaper places.. i know there are indian places where you can eat for 10-15 QAR.restaurant is a purely private business, has nothing to do with the government, and it's up to the owner to set up the prices.. am i missing something?