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If a restaurant is so popular that they're often running out of food, it's perfectly reasonable for them to raise their prices.
by orangecat 1y ago
If a restaurant is so popular that they're often running out of food, it's perfectly reasonable for them to raise their prices.
- hackable_sand 1y agoNot during a famine
- Auracle 1y agoI’d argue that’s a better time to do it? People will eat less, conserving food.
- pentaphobe 1y agopopularity is irrelevant - the context is day-to-day. Prices change slowly over time of course, but that's different. If there was less egg available for a given day, McDonald's [^1] don't charge more for a McMuffin, they sell fewer McMuffins I'd argue AirBnb's approach here is more like Uber's surge rates. Which are clearly more extreme than anything taxi cabs did (bar the occasional bad actor) [^1]: mcdonalds is stretching the "restaurant" analogy here, but they have a higher consistent turnover so seem like a closer comparison