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mtlee024 05-06-2025 09:05 AM
You Forget
 
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Originally Posted by dewilson58 (Post 2429772)
$7 for a F&C lunch.............getting about $2 worth of food...........trying to fill seats.
The overall expense to put the F&C on your table, such as Taxes, Rent, electricity, gas, chiefs, waitress/waiter, cleaning expense, and their is are more I won't add. So that $2 of food probably cost $5 to $6 to put on your table. Not a great ROE.

OrangeBlossomBaby 05-06-2025 09:45 AM
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Originally Posted by sdeikenberry (Post 2429752)
$6.99 fish and chips? Any idea what type of fish? I can’t believe it was a quality fish at that price. Personally, I always ask…will not eat Swai or other farmed junk fish.
It's haddock.

dewilson58 05-06-2025 09:46 AM
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Originally Posted by mtlee024 (Post 2429809)
The overall expense to put the F&C on your table, such as Taxes, Rent, electricity, gas, chiefs, waitress/waiter, cleaning expense, and their is are more I won't add. So that $2 of food probably cost $5 to $6 to put on your table. Not a great ROE.
Yes, those are not food costs..........my post was regarding food costs.

The point is, what are you really getting for $2 of food?? What kind of fish?? Gross.

OrangeBlossomBaby 05-06-2025 09:52 AM
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Originally Posted by mtlee024 (Post 2429809)
The overall expense to put the F&C on your table, such as Taxes, Rent, electricity, gas, chiefs, waitress/waiter, cleaning expense, and their is are more I won't add. So that $2 of food probably cost $5 to $6 to put on your table. Not a great ROE.
It costs more than $2 for the food. Logical fallacies are a common thing around here, get used to it.

But in the restaurant business, lunch specials are cheaper, because they make up for the lower profit margin with the higher profit margin drink orders. A Corona is $5.20. A glass of Coke or Rootbeer is $4.00. Mixed drinks start at $8, average at $11, with a couple of specialty drinks over $30.

Runway48 05-06-2025 10:08 AM
Went there last year. It's a casual seafood restaurant. The type of place you might find on the coast without the 1.5 h drive. My wife and I had lobster rolls (hers hot, mine cold), we both enjoyed the meal. Will go again.

Mrfriendly 05-06-2025 11:20 AM
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Originally Posted by Laker14 (Post 2429712)
I have read a few negative reviews about the Lighthouse restaurant. Never went there until today, for lunch.
It was fine. It was good. I ordered the lunch special of Fish and Chips, $6.99....Delicious. Not a huge serving, but fair for the price. Service was very good.

We ate outside, by the water, with the breeze off the lake it was delightful.

I'd recommend it.
Our group of six enjoyed Friday night lobster dinners, three weeks ago. Food was excellent price not cheap. Our server was in a great mood. We’ll go back for sure!

dougawhite 05-06-2025 11:56 AM
The Sunday lunch menu has F&C priced at $9.99.

retiredguy123 05-06-2025 12:14 PM
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Originally Posted by dougawhite (Post 2429863)
The Sunday lunch menu has F&C priced at $9.99.
Their online menu shows a lunch special of fish and chips for $6.99 daily from 11 to 2, in house only.

La lamy 05-06-2025 12:45 PM
I had a delicious filet mignon a few weeks ago. Good beer, great setting. I only go out to eat a few times a season, and this is a fave place.

tophcfa 05-06-2025 02:55 PM
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Originally Posted by Laker14 (Post 2429747)
nope. regular restaurant style ceramic plates, bowls etc.

My friend had some jambalaya and said it was really good.
Second best jambalaya in the Villages, Havana has the best.

xcaligirl 05-06-2025 03:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Laker14 (Post 2429712)
I have read a few negative reviews about the Lighthouse restaurant. Never went there until today, for lunch.
It was fine. It was good. I ordered the lunch special of Fish and Chips, $6.99....Delicious. Not a huge serving, but fair for the price. Service was very good.

We ate outside, by the water, with the breeze off the lake it was delightful.

I'd recommend it.
We've been there many times over the past 11-12 years and always enjoyed the food. Sometimes, the crowd was a bit too loud but we got stuck eating inside a couple of times due to weather. If the weather isn't good, we just get it to go.

OrangeBlossomBaby 05-06-2025 04:06 PM
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Originally Posted by tophcfa (Post 2429913)
Second best jambalaya in the Villages, Havana has the best.
You'll have to settle for third best. Mine is MUCH better than either.

jasamy2 05-06-2025 05:04 PM
Do the fr clams have bellies?

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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby (Post 2429730)
I was there a couple of times just this past year (2024) for lunch. It was regular restaurant-quality ceramic and metal utensils. Not sure why it would even matter - most seafood joints in Connecticut served on paper plates with plastic utensils and you still had to pay a premium for hot buttered lobster roll platters and whole-belly clams.

Lighthouse isn't intended to mimic a high-end fancy restaurant. It's intended to mimic a local large New England seafood joint.

OrangeBlossomBaby 05-06-2025 06:36 PM
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Originally Posted by jasamy2 (Post 2429942)
Do the fr clams have bellies?
Yes they have whole-belly fried clams on the menu. They're impossibly expensive (if I remember right, it was over $30 and it came with french fries and cole slaw), but the breading was light and crispy and the flavor and "chew" was excellent.

Laker14 05-11-2025 07:18 AM
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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby (Post 2429822)
It's haddock.
correct. My wife specifically asked. It was haddock.
It was fine.

Good in fact.


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