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$43 Hot Dogs; $47 Burgers And $55 Caesar Salads: A Look At The Davos Menu
Billionaires may live in a world untroubled by such petty concerns as rising costs of living and declining real wages, but like everyone else they have to eat. And pay. The picture below shows what the menu prices, in Swiss Francs, are for various meals offered for sale to the billionaires and other upper class "luminaries" currently congregating in Davos. Some examples converted to USD: Hot Dog: $43; Burger: $47; Caesar salad: $55.
This is what a $55 caesar salad looks like:
And said $43 hot dog:
Then again, the Swiss restaurant, like dutiful capitalists, are smart and merely introduced the "Billionaire surge pricing" strategy right out of the Uber playbook, which - when catering to people for whom things like "cost" are absolutely irrelevant, makes perfect sense.
As the regular menu at the same restaurant shows, outside of Davos season the cheeseburger is "only" CHF26, so a modest 60% markup for those who benefit the most from the global central bank-driven multiple-expansion rally. In retrospect, it is surprising the markup is this low.
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This------what appears to be ridiculous pricing----isn't all that unusual in any of our richest and most secretive enclaves all over the world. And Switzerland, the ultimate democratic Police State, is no different. The average Swiss can't even afford a home of any size, the land mass of this country about 200 by 200 miles wide and long makes it among the most expensive in existence. Only ex-pats whose notion of money is well beyond the understanding of the average bloke, can afford the million dollar entry fee and without the right connections, even the richest can't buy a postage stamp sized lot.
How else do you keep out the 'other' but by the use of pricing??? Selective application of regulations??
Judging an object by its price is naive and explains part of the reason why the attendees are among the richest in the world, and those who 'expose' the prices they are paying for a meal, are never to be among them.
The "Value" of this annual selfie of the rich, is inestimable, therefore the cost of being there is a pittance, the returnds likely to be many folds greater.
grrrrrr......
As long as the portions are big enough to choke on, I will pick up the tab.
If I'm going to Davos ever, I'll seek an "all inclusive" offer definitely. Whatever is "all".
Words we'll never hear at Davos - "Can I use my food stamps to pay for that?"
They actually eat that, do they not know what has been done to their food?? tick tock bitchez... should have charge $1,000,000,000 per hot dawg, just for wasting someones time having to serve the shit like a good little slave.
should have charged them more
Such is the CWO (Caterer's World Order) in action.
Just look at all these pointless summits/meetings.
They're running *everything*, I tell ya.
Yeah, but it's a really good hot dog.
... and Poroshenko show up at party with part of bus which his guys blew up in false flag op...he should bring
Ukraine GOT Talent - Pole Dance: http://youtu.be/3_E7vC2VcRY
This is the food for the Press who came to gawk.
As monard pointed out, you don't belong if you haven't provisioned for yourself and your entourage.
There is no inflation God Damn It! DON'T YOU LISTEN!!!!
Davos is a gathering of people who benefit from the current state of the affairs in the world economy, the QE and zero interest rates. This money, instead of being lent for economic development, is then used to manipulate electronic exchanges to transfer wealth to the top 1% from rest of the population. You cannot expect them to do something to solve the problems they themselves have created. Their only objective is to keep the current system going till they milk the last drop from everyone else.
http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article40231.html
Don't forget to leave a tip. :)
It that with or without nasal drippings from the chef with drug-resistant tuberculosis?
TB is really not that easy to "catch" from a single exposure. You'd have a "better ROI" with your Chef being an "Organic eggs" fan, but not careful with stock selection (or maybe deliberately "careful" ;-) )
"Welcome the Terrible Twins" - enterotoxigenic "Sam & Ella" . . . . http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/785774-overview
Why are there prices on the menu? In this company thats just lame.
Remember, Switzerland has not debased its currency like the rest, All this shows is how valueless the dollar, euro, yen and yuan are.
The SNB is trying hard to make up that loss from the Franc depeg anyway it can.
Obviously there is inflation in the cost of ground human meat on which these ghouls feed.
Outlaw Banking
$43 dollars sounds about right for a hot dog made from the flesh of ritually sacrificed babies raised for the purpose kind of like human veal. They probably used the more select cuts of human flesh for the hamburger justifying the $47 price.
I wonder how much the 13 year old virgin sex slaves cost?
Fidolla.
I am just so happy my betters who have taken advantage of a manipulated financial world to reach their lofty perch can now tell me how to live, sure appreciate it guys..
The "Disechantment Index" is enhanced by the understanding that in many (if not all) cases, their "achievement" has rather more to do with family, social and political connection, than by genuine risk taking (where "risk taking" in the knowledge that any losses will be backstopped by Joe Public hardly counts for "risk taking" in common parlance!)
If this gathering of the "Right Folks" isn't a clear example of "consequences" - the consequences of "Privatise the profits, Socialise the losses", I don't know what is. Yet, the band plays on . . . . . . .
that ceaser salad is for pussies.. nothing is even on the damn thing? wtf... I don't see any croutons or parm... it appears that this is just some lame ass garden shite, choke you fuckers. I got retards in my office that pay half that price for twice as much food/salad when they order take out. morons
This is what it looks like when your currency crashes, bitchez. "Strong" dollar my ass.
Vienna Weiner? Damn, that's camping vittles.
I'll trade you a barrel of oil for a hot dog.
It should be obvious to all that what they are paying involves the inflation that they want (and need) to discount sovereign endebtedness. The amount that they calculated would have ensued from the money printing they are engaged in today.
That inflation rates remain so low is a factor of the overall deflation that is going on at the same time.
By the logic of cetral bankers, the Fed, and Draghi's approximation of the Fed, should be paying banks to borrow their nonexistent cash. Maybe they could stoke the inflationary fires with that?
Meanwhile, there is a real tinderbox out there waiting for the spark to set it off.
Enjoy the crash.
Craig
No worries. The taxpayer will pick up the tab. Enjoy.
SCREW THE SHITTY FOOD--HOW MUCH FOR DIERDRE WANG MORRIS??
Food is expensive in Davos, but the arrogant assholes are free. It's a supply and demand thing.
I've had a $43 hot dog.....it came with a baseball game and beer.
and a cheerleader
That's not a Caesar Salad. Looks like ranch dressing. And who the fuck puts cukes and tomatoes in a Caesar? These rich people are clueless.
That is not a Caesar salad. I just figured the reporter inserted a photo from somewhere or other, since most likely he did not get into the restaurant.
This is not just a Davos deal. I was at a trade show in Cologne recently. Huge show thousands of people. Food was served in one place, tiny menu, everything was about US$35, and the portions were small. Total scam, and quite shameful of the show organizers.
You poor b"stard in Cologne......go to Frankfurt and get a BJ on Kaiserstrasse
Actually hooked up with a Korean lady at my hotel, who was there for the show too. Unfortunately her husband arrived a day later but by the looks of him I know she remembers the night we spent together.
+100 for honesty.
EAT SHIT YOU MOTHERFUCKERS!
Prices must triple if you want a seat inside
Makes it a toss up between getting f"cked by Prince Andy as a minor or screwing 401K investors to see how good a $47 burger can taste.
Prices are lower if you pay in Euros. Dumb Americans !
Hot dogs and burgers are both barbarous relics, why wound any sane person own them? They're too volatile.
Mmmmm. Let me see, it all looks so good! I think I'll just go for the um, glass of chilled water and a napkin on the side please?
I will have a pine float and a wish sandwich.
You want a rubber biscuit on the side?
... here's the "adding insult to injury" part ... all their Davos expenses ... meals, travel costs (jet expenses, fuel), etc., are all tax deductible ... and you and I (taxpayers) take the hit ...
... here's another "rich-versus-poor" scenario ... >>> "17,600 Canadian employees ready to eat former Target exec alive over severance pay" ... >>> http://rt.com/news/225423-target-ceo-severance-pay/
... the article states ... "Gregg Steinhafel took a total of $61 million from Target, including stock options, his pension, and a total severance of nearly $16 million, when he left the company last May, according to Fortune's calculations. Target’s "employee trust" package for its Canadian workers meanwhile amounts to $56 million, as CBC reports, designed to provide each worker with 16 weeks of pay."
.... $61M severance for one person vs $56M severance for 17,600 workers ....
"The caviar is $80 a portion, senor."
"Well, then. I better only have two portions."
Your could buy a hot dog in Davos in 1964 for three silver quarters. You can still do the same today....
No one bought my site,..Mr.starve the beast concedes.Now you must bow down to my java/cookie pseudo paywall.
Karl
And while you're downing that $50.00 hamburger listen in on this lecturer from the ivy leagues that brought you Cass Sunstein/Samantha Powers LLC about your privacy being a"thing of the past"...
Bon Appetit!
P.S.
What a great PR idea by the NSA to make American computer, internet hardware and "commercial" network services corporations sell more of that "cloud" to awaiting and interested european consumers!
I am having two hotdogs for lunch today. I'm rich bitch!
Edit: Just saw the pictures. My hotdog is presented way better. And I have ketchup.
The prices are to seperate the elite from the hoi polloi, they act both as a barrier to entry and as a reminder to the great unwashed that they must remain where they belong in that is the shandy towns surrounding the castles of the overlords.
I can get a good meal at Ruth's Chris Steakhouse for less.
I'm thinking a Carl's Jr. here would have an impact.
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Europe is full of ISIS recruits and not even a threat to the elite at Davos?
Sure, but ISIS allegedly targets a third grade cartoon magazine somewhere in Paris and oh, takes hostages in a kosher deli just for shits and giggles.
Just as AQ never posed any real threat to the elite, ISIS is also just a 5th column controlled by the usual suspects.
People around the world still don't understand who the real terrorists are.
Speaking of said French cartoon magazine... what does this week's cover look like? Oh, I realize it doesn't matter so it's no longer being broadcast. Wondering if French are supposedly still standing in line to pick up the next copy?
I don't give a fuck about either Charlie or Hebdo and ... JE SUIS PISSED
I want to see Lloyd Blankfein on the menu
I cannot see a Vienna sausage being $38...even with the gherkin thrown in.
Why don't they charge $1000 for a hot dog, $1250 for a burger and if they want a soda and fries then make it a Value Meal at $1500? Shouldn't billionaires feel at least a tiny sting? Need some real capitalists creating the prices on the menu.
HaHa! $47 for a burger and you don't even get fries, just crisps!
These elites are so disconnected from the rest of us, in their private jets, discussing global warming, whats best for the rest of us, so long as it increases their billions by a few billion more, all so they can live decadent lifestyles and look down on us with disdain....
what do I have to do to change this world for the better?
I'll have a middle class cocktail please.
That's a tall cocktail glass with water and a toothpik.
Variable charging rate depending on the source of the water, and the toothpick. "Pre Global Warming" ice core water carries a premium, and "Pre Industrial Age" ice core water is even more costly.
Choice of Toothpick, Sir? Hardwood or Softwood? "Old" Native forest, or FSA certified "Ecologically sustainable" Plantation timber??
Vintage '68 Loire valley runoff and a well seasoned Northern Canadian maple heartwood will be fine.
or at least get food poisoning which causes them to shit the entire way home on their private planes.
Of course a hot dog is $43 dollars. Soylent green ingredients are hard to come by.
As a Swiss I have to say these prices are too high. I know my country is expensive and now even more so but just to give you an impression. A normal Hot-Dog in the streets would usually cost you 6 CHF, so roughly 7 USD. A green salad in a decent resaturant but used as a starter costs you 6-7 CHF if it's with ham and other meat it goes up to 10 CHF -12 CHF. Now the big mac index that is often used to show how expensive Switzerland is one also has to consider that the meat used is almost exculsively sourced from Switzerland with a few exceptions and meat in Switzerland is a lot more expensive than abroad with lots of restrictions on what to feed animals and stuff. So if I wan to buy two pairs of chicken breast at the equivalent of Wallmart buying the Slovenian or Hungarian chicken will set me back 5 CHF - 6 CHF so 6 USD - 7 USD. Now the Swiss chicken breast will cost you automatically 11 CHF - 12 CHF so 12 - 14 USD! Just to give you an idea also how to save costs in this country. ;)
1700 private jets flew from Cape Spendthrift to Davos...the Swiss should have tripled the price again.
Take the money away from them before they hurt themselves with it.
But it's a hotel in Davos, not a street vendor, and it is catering to an "upscale" (but utterly tasteless and classless) clientele during a "super-high" season.
for example -
Beau Rivage (Genf) - Patara makes Lebua in Bangkok look like amazingly cheap - Thai food at CHF 50 per main course.
Baur au Lac (Zurich) - My father loves the place, but I really don't.
And to throw in a resort during a "less high" season - Badrutt's in San Mortitz - Where I learned how to ski at 3 years old... since I refused to be the only kid in day care who didn't speak German. Their normal winter cheeseburgers and club sandwiches are MOAR expensive than those "Davos Specials" this week.
So I don't think those prices are too high for Switzerland (except when compared to quality or class of product provided).
BTW whole chicken is lot cheaper than chicken breasts - I've seen small ones as low as CHF 6 at the airport Migros, but where the fuck do you find a real "hot dog" for CHF 6? I think I can get what Ikea refers to as a "Hot Dog" for perhaps CHF 2 at their food bar, or elsewhere I can get any one of countless local superior varieties of Cervelat, Rindswurst, Schüblig, Weißwurst or the rest of them... but normally when I see the word "Hot Dog" I also see "foreigner pricing" - just like at hotel Belvédère during WEF week. Hopefully they are selling them the equivalent of US grade B hot dogs (which are basically 100% lips and assholes). Meanwhile the local (vile) Walmart where I am now is advertising (vile) boneless skinless chicken breast for CHF 9-10/kg versus the Migros at home selling similar packaged chicken products for CHF 30-40/kg.
Gladly pay you Tuesday for a hot dog today.
...and you'll still be paying on Wednesday, and Thursday, and Friday, and Saturday...
If it was me who run the joint I'll mark up 3x as much.
That's some real trickle down.
take them for what they are worth - no pitty - should have asked more.
It´s trickle down economics bitches.
Hope spit was included