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Originally Posted by senior citizen
For those who quibble that the prices in THE VILLAGES restaurants are too high, let me tell you.......they are NOT. We thought they were LOW.
Having just returned from a two week vacation in seacoast Maine, the restaurant prices were exhorbitant.......but you pay it as it's part of the experience. If one doesn't want to pay the high prices, just as easy to prepare the stuff at home, courtesy of a good cookbook.
But, folks go out to dine for a reason........to enjoy something different and so that they do not have to cook it themselves.
Restaurants have a lot of overhead, especially in resort areas.........
Plus........food is perishable and has to be restocked daily.
The customer shares in these costs.......
Personally, I can't see quibbling over a few dollars....but that's me.
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I don't really have an opinion on Villages restaurant prices. They always seems about average to me, but I've only eaten at country clubs a few times and they seemed a bit over the top for me. I wasn't real happy paying $16.00 for a plateful of Spaghetti with little else.
I have more of a problem with the service in this entire area. Maybe it's a southern thing but I am very frustrated by how slow the service here is and how much the servers seem to not care about the customers. But that's another discussion.
But what I can say is that you are comparing apples and oranges here. The Villages restaurants are basically neighborhood establishments and comparing them to seasonal resort area restaurants is not really fair. Any time you are in a seasonal resort are you are going to pay top dollar. Establishments in these areas know that they have a captive audience with little choice except to eat out. They are also closed for several months of the year and need to make up for that down time. As the old saying goes, "You need to make hay when the sun is shining". Rents and property values in resort area like the Maine seacoast tend to be higher as well.