May 30, 2007
Yes you can drink NY tap water, even at a posh dinner
Del Posto is among the New York City restaurants nixing bottled water from its menu for environemental reasons, the New York Times reports.
New York City's tap water, sometimes referred to as the "champagne of tap waters" comes from upstate.
But the Times explains why restaurants are reluctant to stop pushing the stuff: For almost everyone else the idea is still in the talking stage, in part because there’s a big profit in bottled water, even though some of it comes out of a tap before it goes into the bottle. Restaurants buy it for $1 or $2 and sell it for as much as $8, or even more, giving it the highest markup of any item on the menu. But while Tom Colicchio of Craft restaurant told the Times that nearly 60 percent of customers prefer bottled water, the results were entirely different in this morning's NY1 snap poll, in which TV news viewers vote with their remote control. The poll: "At a restaurant, do you ask for: sparkling bottled water (12 percent;) still bottled water (12 percent;) or New York City water (76 percent.)
May 30, 2007 08:52 AM in Cheap Stuff, Drinkology, Foodology
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