PRICES

[Bucko]

**But I strongly advise not trying to tell a restaurant owner how to run his business.**

I strongly disagree with that. Case in point: a very nice local restaurant allowed smoking in 1/2 of the small restaurant. They might as well have made it the whole place, because the smoke made it everywhere. I wrote the owner a letter explaining how the smoke ruined our dining pleasure. I told him that I would not return until the place was smoke free and I would advise my friends and patients to do same. Two months later the place became non-smoking.

Every time that I go to a restaurant with outrageous prices, I make it a point to tell them that they lost a wine sale due to their pricing policies. I offer them what I think a reasonable pricing policy should be. I have nothing to lose and everything to gain. I do not suffer in silence, nor am I bellicose -- I just make my point and move on.

Bucko