[Magdalen] Tempus Fugit.

[Lynn Ronkainen]

Sadly Mother’s Day has become a big $pender day for retailers, restaurants and florists - when most moms really just enjoy spending time the most. 
Lynn 

On May 6, 2018, at 7:20 PM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com> wrote:

I'd love to take my mom to Terzo Piano in the Art Institute of Chicago for
Mother's Day brunch. Let's see...

<gasp>
$85 per person and $25 per child; tax and gratuity are additional.

How about North Pond, in Lincoln Park (the park):
a special three-course pre-fixe menu from 10am - 5pm, for $85 per adult and
$40 per child.

Just for gags, how about the Ritz-Carlton's Torali restaurant?
Seatings at 10:00 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. (Hey! Mom goes to church!)
Adult $155 (subject to tax and gratuity); Children 5-12 years old $52
(subject to tax and gratuity)

Sigh.

On Sun, May 6, 2018 at 3:18 PM, cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

> 
> The monthly newsletter from the local Pocono development
> arrived yesterday, and I breezed through it, and happened
> on an ad for Mother's Day brunch at the development
> restaurant.  I was stunned by the charge:  US$ 21.95 for
> adults.
> 
> Granted, Mother's Day is a special version of the ubiquitous
> Sunday brunch, but I must confess i thought that price to be
> a typo.  I checked with the restaurant.  It wasn't.  That's the
> tab.
> 
> There is a fairly lavish menu, but still. $21.95 out here in the
> sticks (?).
> 
> Then I realize that I am about 20 years out of the Sunday
> brunch circuit. I checked with the local hotel where we used
> to go for Sunday brunch frequently, and their fare is $38.95 (!).
> 
> So it happens that one turns one's back for a couple of decades,
> and inflation takes it all into the stratoshere.
> 
> 
> 
> David S.
> 



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Scott R. Knitter
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA