Babu:The third surprise was that the menu came without prices. Instead, guests were invited to eat, enjoy, and then, at the end of the meal, pay what they thought it was worth. “I’d rather work out the kinks in the kitchen first,” Payal Saha, the restaurant’s owner, explained the other day, sitting at a corner table of Babu, which was about a quarter full of couples quietly eating and mentally calculating the value of their experience. Now if only I could pay what I wanted at Babbo...
"The pay-what-you-like policy has caused a certain amount of anxiety among diners, much as the pay-what-you-wish policy at, say, the Metropolitan Museum can cause crises of conscience in the face of a ticket-taking docent’s all-knowing gaze. "
That is funny. I always have an internal debate when entering the Met.
Yeah, I have a friend who always pays $.01 at the Met, but I am always too nervous to do it.
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- jim 3-15-2005 6:55 pm
"The pay-what-you-like policy has caused a certain amount of anxiety among diners, much as the pay-what-you-wish policy at, say, the Metropolitan Museum can cause crises of conscience in the face of a ticket-taking docent’s all-knowing gaze. "
That is funny. I always have an internal debate when entering the Met.
- selma 3-15-2005 7:16 pm [add a comment]
Yeah, I have a friend who always pays $.01 at the Met, but I am always too nervous to do it.
- jim 3-15-2005 7:18 pm [add a comment]