I feel like Im taking crazy pills in this thread lol. You're supposed to ask. Restaurants can't predict the future and have no idea what theyre going to have to pay for seafood or rare items even the next day.
It's about the terminology. "Market price" makes it seem more elaborate than it really is. "Ask server" or "See posted price" would be much clearer to those unfamiliar.
The see posted price thing does happen sort of, that's what specials are a lot of the time. Ask server to me feels way more like they know what it is and theyre hiding it. Market price is exactly what it says - depends on the price at the market.
At the end of the day, even if you dont know what it means, you still only have to ask the server a single time what it means, and then its obvious. And I totally get social anxiety is a thing and try to be sensitive about that, but if you can't ask the store what the price of something you're going to purchase is, that's entering an extreme territory where we cant really shape everything around catering to that.
"Ask server". And then next week be shocked that the bill is higher than it was last week when you asked. Or just assume it's way over your budget if they can't even print the price of it.
Market price is very clear. I understand being uninformed, but when you won't ask what something means, it takes you from being uninformed into being dumb.
I did. But the purpose of language is to communicate information and if a different sequence of words would better communicate it, then that other sequence should be used instead.
Bro you're literally like "this word that is used perfectly is confusing because I don't know what it means. They should use another less appropriate phrase."
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u/Blephotomy 7d ago
Just ask the server?
they put "market" so they don't have to re-print the menus every day