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Re: Daphne balancing on the cost curve.
daphne | Tue, 2007-10-23 11:56
This is exactly my point. You can go on and on and on about about the electrical and gas bills in euros and your "losses" but it will not help you. The tourists are not going to come to your restaurant so you can pay your euro bills. They want value for money.
You think a bowl of pasta for 14 euros is "suicidal"? This attitude illustrates the problem so well. St Martin/St Maarten has completely lost touch with reality.
How come you can go to a nice, newly decorated, nicely designed, restaurant in a major city in Germany or even a tourist resort and pay 6 euros for a plate of pasta, but in SXM 14 euros is "suicidal"? Germany has Euros and taxes too.
People seem to forget that SXM travellers travel other places too and SXM is not considered good value for money.
PS.
I do not of course mean to compare Germany and the Caribbean as a tourist venue. In Germany it is of course the people who live there who goes out to eat. But I have a feeling the tourists are fed up with the tourist trap prices on restaurants.
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