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Originally Posted by TorqueDog
$398 / 5 people = $79.60 a person. And presumably, that's including the gratuity as well. Assuming a gratuity of 15-20% (most places require six or more patrons before a 15-18% auto-gratuity is included), that's anywhere from $66 to $69 per person.
For a high-end restaurant, that is nothing out of the ordinary, especially if there's wine involved (and it's an Italian restaurant, so there better be wine involved).
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Which is all fine if you're paying for it out of your own pocket.
When you're an elected official who ran on a platform of reducing government waste, you might be perceived as a hypocrite when you have lunch meetings at high-end restaurants and expense the bills.
It looks like Mr. "give it back, it's not your money" Rick Bell was also in attendance at one of Magliocca's lunch meetings. I'm sure they shared a nice hearty outrage over the way our tax dollars are being wasted.