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Yikes indeed, we needed Stampede Trail yesterday. Hopefully a bar opens up that undercuts even the Saddledome/Events Centre happy hour specials. Reality is a bar will open up but it will be CSEC owned and cost the exact same as the happy hour, damn you subsidized capitalism!
3 years ago I would have cried 'ripoff!' but sadly there isn't much out there that's affordable anywhere these days. Yesterday I stopped at Subway and picked up a foot long cold cut and a 6 inch Canadian club sandwich with 2 fountain pops and with BC's lovely 12% tax was $33 bucks. The tip option only had choices of 18%, 20% and 25%.....so I selected 'none', otherwise that would have been another 6 bucks.
True that. I used to tip a lot more, especially during covid and shortly after, but these days it's kind of getting out of hand. Vancouver is even worse than Calgary. Almost every pub now you order a beer at the counter (as is fast becoming the trend here in Calgary). A 12 oz beer here seems to go for $8.00-$10.00, then you add on your 12% tax, and then you have tip options ranging from 15-25%....required because somebody took 30 seconds to pour a beer. All said and done, you walked up to a counter and paid $15 for a 12 oz beer. At least the beer is better quality than the beer at the Dome, but......
