{"id":1352,"date":"2009-12-29T12:34:06","date_gmt":"2009-12-29T19:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/?p=1352"},"modified":"2009-12-29T12:34:06","modified_gmt":"2009-12-29T19:34:06","slug":"real-drink-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/?p=1352","title":{"rendered":"Real Drink Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever sipped an $8 Gin and Tonic and felt like you were somehow getting screwed?\u00c2\u00a0 Well, chances are good that you were.\u00c2\u00a0 Drinks are a very high profit item for restaurants and bars.\u00c2\u00a0 To give a better idea of the true costs check out the <a title=\"Cockeyed.com - Cocktail Calculator\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cockeyed.com\/inside\/cocktail\/cocktail_calculator.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Cocktail Calculator<\/a> that Rob whipped up over on <a title=\"Cockeyed.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cockeyed.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cockeyed<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 I have to admit I spent about 20 minutes playing with different combinations to see the results.\u00c2\u00a0 True geek fun.<\/p>\n<p>To give an example, one of my perennial favorites the <a title=\"CH - Gin and Tonic\" href=\"http:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/?p=397\" target=\"_blank\">Gin and Tonic<\/a> contains about 36 cents worth of ingredients when made with well spirits.\u00c2\u00a0 That&#8217;s even cheaper than my <a title=\"CH - Recession Gin and Tonic\" href=\"http:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/?p=867\" target=\"_blank\">budget recipe<\/a> that rang in at 83 cents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever sipped an $8 Gin and Tonic and felt like you were somehow getting screwed?\u00c2\u00a0 Well, chances are good that you were.\u00c2\u00a0 Drinks are a very high profit item for restaurants and bars.\u00c2\u00a0 To give a better idea of the true costs check out the Cocktail Calculator that Rob whipped up over on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[202],"class_list":["post-1352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1352"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1354,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352\/revisions\/1354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}