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Posted: 9:05 am, May 11th, 2010 in Midtown Eating
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Pew pew pew.
It's 4 dollars for ambiance.
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four extra bucks for me to cram my fat ass in a restaurant the size of my apartment?! no thanks.
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The one located in Hell's Kitchen is actually spacious and very nice for a Pio Pio.
I ordered take-out from them on Sat but the one in Jackson Heights. They don't deliver. Still 10 around me.
I think their chicken is alright but not really worth sit-down pricing unless friends insist upon it for dinner.
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its something i need to pick up for a party. I thoroughly enjoy their chicken, but i found the $4 difference to be odd.
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Just do take-out then. F-sitdown.
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no that is what Im doing, but im just curious to know why the difference. Thought maybe it was a typo. Are the sizes in chicken different?
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Doubtful. I did sitdown once at Hell Kitchen's. Looked the same to me and their birds aren't huge.
I meant don't ever consider sit-down. lol. Why pay to eat in-house? I would rather save the $4 too.
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well, aside from the minor savings they get (time saved dishwashing, relieving waitstaff workload, etc) they also get to move chicken a lot faster. keeps the stuff fresh. this isn't the actual strategy but is one of the perceived benefits of the strategy.
other things to consider:
-- the demand is too high and they want to curb the wait time for dine-in customers by using restrictive pricing.
-- the quality of the food for takeout is usually a lower than dine-in due being cramped up in a box and suffering a 20+ minute commute back home.
-- in the time it takes for you to be fed as a dine-in, they could have filled 1 and a half orders for takeout.
-- you really do pay for 'ambiance.'
-- they could be testing out a new model for a takeout only operation. -
ok cool...so eff dining in.
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You are paying for the service . . . and the extra green sauce. They seriously need a place in midtown that serves the fried hotdogs and french fries side dish.
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So subtract the $4 from their tip? LOL.
Salchipapas is okay. Fry your own taters and hot dogs at home. Save the dough.
Their mayo-based green sauce probably the best item they got going for them - goes well with the rice and the chicken.
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I recreate my own at home but replace the french fries with perogies. yum
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We have a Polish place in JC too. It's run by this 80 year old woman who makes everything by hand, the perogies are the best.
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Was hoping someone could answer this for me. On the delivery/takeout menu a whole chicken is $10 and on the dine in menu its $14. Know why that is?