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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cubenewb, post: 1074634, member: 25644&quot;]The menu prices are all whole numbers... the only whole numbers from&nbsp; 1-100 that would yield an absolute fair price would be $50 and $100&nbsp; (Sales tax is 6%, so 50.00 --&gt; 53.00 and 100 --&gt; 106.00, if your&nbsp; resulting bill after tax is a whole number you come out not paying them&nbsp; any extra). Here&#039;s the interesting thing, the restaurant maximizes&nbsp; profits (meaning they make ~50+ cents extra per transaction) through&nbsp; this medium in the total price intervals from:</p><p>$0.01 --&gt; $8.00</p><p>$17.00 --&gt; $25.00</p><p>$34.00 --&gt; $42.00</p><p>$51.00 --&gt; $59.00</p><p>$67.00 --&gt; $75.00</p><p>$84.00 --&gt; $92.00</p><p><br /></p><p>(This only entertains total prices from 0-100)</p><p><br /></p><p>Now here&#039;s the menu for those of you to check yourself:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.yourgrape.com/menus/Coconut%20April%20menu%20LOW.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.yourgrape.com/menus/Coconut%20April%20menu%20LOW.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.yourgrape.com/menus/Coconut April menu LOW.pdf</a></p><p><br /></p><p>So go ahead, try out some configurations in your head, add up the price of something &lt;100 that you would have purchased, and if your total&nbsp; price ends up in one of the aforementioned intervals (particularly the lower numbers), then perhaps this&nbsp; is more thought out than the man makes it seems.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a chart showing that the profits earned are a cycle from 1-50&nbsp; (Notice that the pattern repeats in the right column, it&#039;s offset by 1&nbsp; row because of how I started each i.e. top left starts at 4 and should&nbsp; start at 2)</p><p><img src="http://i319.photobucket.com/albums/mm480/theskewer/4f867108.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Can&#039;t help but notice that wind tastings are in the 4-8 range, and a sandwhich + drink looks to be in the low 20&#039;s... Hmm...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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