“It’s One Banana, Michael. What Could It Cost? 10 Dollars?”

No, No, Mikey NO!

This is so not right

Often quoted, but the funny part is that Lucille actually probably guessed right. Pretty sure this is within the first five episodes of Arrested Development. The context is that Gob wanted George Michael to give him a frozen banana for free - since he was family he was entitled to that or some such. But Gob didn't just ask for a banana, he asked for a double banana with all the toppings. As out of touch as Lucille was, that probably would have cost $10.

You forget it was over 20 years ago that that episode aired... $10 today, for sure, but probably not $10 back then...

$10 USD in 2003 is $17 today. A bit more on the expensive side, but I can still see it happening at an amusement park stand. Besides, by 2070 one banana probably will cost $10.

The very next line is "you've never set foot in a supermarket have you?" It's pretty clear in the context of the quote that she's guessing at the base price of the materials for a plain frozen banana, not Gob's specific order (which she didn't know)

That doesn’t explain why Michael says “you haven’t been to a grocery store” or something along those lines

I’m sneaking Caviar in my skin pocket and selling it at half price, double the ounce. With crackers.

Your.... Skin pocket?

Yea, flesh wallet full of caviar

I’m told some people can store eggs in their ham wallet.

I prefer torts in my swish mitten

Now I have intrusive thoughts.  I have a pile of eggs in me, but I can't just get them out.  Would they taste like caviar?

That's got to be a new sentence

Yeah their foreskin. Did they stutter?

Also known as the prison wallet.

The prison wallet is between cheeks 🤣

Ya know your coin purse

Haha are you talking about your “prison wallet” to get it past security?

Gonna stash those briney pre-Sturgeons in a pink velvet sausage wallet!

That’s one mighty big foreskin you must have.

It's all well and good when you do it, but when I put the caviar in my seafood cavity, they say it tastes too fishy.

That's where I keep my nads.

Is this in US dollars?

These are the cabana prices designed for 8 people.

So catering prices 😂

If they didn't use all those overly fancy ingredients, those prices would be a lot better even for a party of 8. Seriously, truffle on a lobster roll?

If they just cut out the watermelon from the fruit refresher they might be able to save the consumer like… $2

Charging absurd prices is the whole point though, fancy ingredients is just the excuse. A tiny bit of truffle doesn't actually cost $100.

Why would you even want something like truffle on a lobster roll? It’s just overpowering the lobster

Yea that makes sense. Lobster rolls for 35 a person while a bit is well within market pricing for that item

so that means at least 8 wings person right?

Yeah I'm thinking it's probably Hong Kong dollars or something similar.

This is the Miami Grand Prix

Well it sure ain't no Catalina Wine Mixer.

It ain't no fucking catalina wine mixer?

The fucking Catalina wine mixer.

Fuckin catalina wine mixer

POW!

Are you saying POW?

I've been earning and burning. I'm snapping necks and cashing checks.

Well that's fucking crazy then

This looks to be from the luxury suites, not general admission area.

I'm surprised they even bothered putting prices. Even taco trucks sometimes leave prices off their menus and I can reliably count on getting 10 tacos for under 25 outside of taco Tuesdays

In Toronto, tacos off a food truck will run around $12 for two. I used to think that was expensive until this post.

As the title states, it's the Hard Rock Beach Club (at the Miami GP).

Which is a hilarious name given that this race takes place in the parking lot of the Miami Dolphins stadium a solid 7 miles from the beach

Paying [$1000 admission](https://offer.fevo.com/crewfare-hard-rock-beach-club-3-day-package-b48abe8/?f=&fevoUri=crewfare-hard-rock-beach-club-3-day-package-b48abe8%2F) just to get in this area on race day.

Miami is just so extra, I love it. Idiots paying $300 for lobster rolls because they can is the most Miami thing I’ve seen this morning.

If this isn’t photoshop then I’m investing in guillotine futures.

Invest away. This is at the Hard Rock Beach Club, which bills itself as a “Trackside Day Club Experience.” Miami people will pay anything to be VIP. Source: lived there and went to Day Clubs. Am girl though, so usually everything was free for me. That Latino patriarchy pays off for ladies in clubs.

We call it LA, Florida or East Los Angeles for a reason lol

We call it south New York. I know my people are down there buying this shit, we have plenty of moneyed idiots up here.

Paying that much for *MIAMI* lobster is fucking insane. Like it's already crazy as fuck, but the audacity to try to make people pay that, that close to the gulf Fuckin wild Edit: I'm an idiot, but still that much for lobster is insanity

Do you mean Maine lobster?

Dunno why you're copping downvotes. The menu clearly specifies maine lobster, it's straight up the first word on there

Last year I won a contest and got to go to an f1 race with all you can eat for free. In retrospect with these price I probably had $1,000 worth of food. Which as someone living in a 600 square foot 1 bedroom at the time was glorious.

King for a day

Bank scene starts

Princess by dawn

You probably had $80 worth of food that would have cost you $1000 at the race lol.

This is very true lol

Missed opportunity to sell some food on the side, could have made bank

W

Id have eaten til I burst at those prices. Fed people are me, too. What a scam. Lol.

When in fact you barely ate $50 of fodd...

Im thinjing that isnf where the serfs watch the race.

They cater to folks who don't comprehend double digit prices

Probably feels fair to them

Honestly, it does. My uncle has a catering company I fill-in when I can. He'll send me screenshots of the "chef's menu," that has more details like scheduling, critical items, place setting, where to shop for specific fish. At the bottom he has a rough estimate of everything; he's an incredible shopper and has incredible shoppers for product. BUT HOLY FUCK, the markup. And it never gets haggled. He just prices it out, sends them an invoice for the event and they pay it. Is it robbery?? I hope so. Seems like the best kind of robbery. His staff is amazing, the food is incredible.. and if he didn't charge what he does, he'd look (lol) fishy.

Why would they when they didn’t earn it.

Happy cake day!

Nobody is watching the race from there. This is for rich pricks to do networking.

Serf here-they use my body as part of the walking bridge to get here.

There’s no way

Someone in another comment said these are catering prices designed for tables of 8 people.

I dont think that's right. Another menu is floating around from last year's GP, with orders that serve 4, [and the prices are higher than the ones here](https://www.reddit.com/r/Miami/comments/13bxju8/food_prices_at_miami_grand_prix/?share_id=SkrG-Uyz6I_YAAIpimFXK&utm_content=1&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_source=share&utm_term=1). I really really doubt that, a year later, they're serving double the portions at half the price.

FAIL NEVER AGAIN

NEVER AGAAAAAAAAIN EDIT: r/unexpectedsabaton

Richie’s like rich shit, makes em feel good.

Actual richies often don't have prices listed on their menus though.

Touché

It’s ok we’re not rich enough to have thought about it:/

This isn’t a normal restaurant though. It’s food at a very high end sporting event. It is absolutely for richies

It’s also typically for groups. It’s essentially catering.

Prices are listed here for the sole purpose of shooing the poor away

Um…if any of you could afford this, please pm me. I’ve been out of work for quite a while due to illness and you can sponsor me for the low, low price of 1oz of caviar

There’s a joke somewhere here about feeding a bear

Letting a bear loose in this restaurant, you say? A bit extreme, but I like your style.

I see everybody agrees.

no!

For those prices I better be able to ride the F1 drivers like horsies

True 🥵

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I dunno, the ones for 4 people are even more. On the picture above steamed buns are $120, on the menu for 4 people they are $300.

Even then, steamed buns for 4 people are $300? That's $75 a person and I doubt the food is anything to rave about. I'd hope you'd at least get enough food to feel full, but I'm not so sure that would happen either

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It definitely does at least a little bit. Roughly double the price of normal food. That tracks with major sporting events almost anywhere.

Thats 45 bucks per nacho

Even if that's true it's still dumb. And why would the regular price listing be for 4 people?

This is a private cabana area where everything is meant to serve multiple people in your cabana.

My guess would be that hard rock probably did a bunch of special shit to make this area happen. Rented trucks, equipment, had extra staff, and generally spent a lot of money to make a special area, for special people, on a special day. The charges probably reflect that.

I am glad that for only $400 I can add 1 oz caviar to my Fun Fruit Refresher

I don’t know why anybody would want to buy food from any hard Rock anywhere.

This is for "lounges" or booths and serves multiple people, just FYI

Someone posted a pic of the handheld menu and it says serves 4 but the prices are almost double what it shows here.

I believe a company has every right to charge as much as they want for their product. It will sell or it won't. I'm extremely surprised but people must be paying because you don't just start with these prices. You start lower and have lots of demand. Then you slowly raise to see what you can get away with. Also, who the fuck is clamoring for Hard Rock Cafe food? I always figured you dealt with the mediocre food so you could look at some cool guitars or Elvis' jumpsuit.

I think it's probably a combination of the fact that F1 is a very expensive sport to follow, and it has a mostly non-US audience. So you've got a lot of really rich people on vacation who don't really know that Hard Rock is just a franchise, and not some critical bit of the American food ethos. For that sort, this is a trivial amount of money, and it could well be worth that trivial amount to say you ate at Hard Rock at the race. Also, the fact that they have an "add caviar to any item" says this is positioned in some sort of VIP area. It's not targeting average folks at the race.

Someone on twitter said that tickets to watch the race at the hard rock are $1000. This definitely isn't for regular folks.

$1000 actually seems light for a place that's trying to charge a fifth of that for a fruit cup. I bet it was a grand on top of the normal ticket price.

tickets for this area were ranging from $1,800 - $80,000 depending on the package

As soon as I saw F-1 Racing, I knew why the price was justified.

That's a good point about the VIP area. I would feel though, no matter how rich I was, that I was being taken advantage of with those prices. It's hard for me to wrap my head around $300 food sold from a tent but I'm not rich.

They absolutely are being taken advantage of, it's just that it doesn't matter at a certain level of wealth. If you make $300 in a tenth of a second without expending any effort, then $3, $300, and even $3000 are essentially the same to you. So you don't care. Or, you're someone who wants to look like $300 doesn't matter to you, so you put on the performance, and are essentially paying for the apparent prestige. Either way, Hard Rock sells you a sandwich.

It's a combination of not knowing, and not caring. Really wealthy people, *especially* generationally wealthy people, have no idea how much anything costs. Money is just arbitrary bits of paper with arbitrary numbers on them, and there's an infinite supply of these bits of paper, and you give random handfuls of these bits of paper to other people and they give you things you want in return. That's the difference between "new money", and "old money".

It's called price elasticity. Lower the price and more people are willing to buy. Raise the price and less people are willing to buy. Companies try to find how much they can raise the price to still make money off of it, despite losing a certain amount of customers, all while still turning a profit.

This is normal for club box menus. It’s supposed to feed multiple people. I’m sure people down in the stands have access to $12 beers and $10 hotdogs.

Even if I was Bill Gates rich, I wouldn't spend that cash just because of how stupid it is.

It's family style for your group. So this is like 5 servings

I'd say I'd rather go hungry, but that would imply agency in the matter.

The people buying this, attending this event are the ones that believe everyone has a fair hourly wage...SO out of touch. What fools.

"Yea would it be cheaper if i just got a single wing" "sir the dish only comes with 1 wing"

I mean none of us in the middle class are there. Two of my higher up bosses are there right now and I was told one spent $900 for tix just for the chance to see Taylor swift because it was rumored she’d be there. People with money don’t know what to do with it most of the time. Let’s not sit here and bitch and cry about the prices we’re never gonna pay. Let’s just point and laugh and the rich people falling for consumerism again and again. On a different note, idk about you guys but I’m a huge hypocrite, so if I had F1 money, bet your ass id be there. Edit: all of these serve 4 apparently so it’s not as bad as I thought.

American dollars???

Yeah I’ll fast thank you

Who. The fuck. Is paying. 290 *real American dollars.* For ***cold shrimp?!***

You don't have to be rich to pay for it. You have to be a moron.

They're serving a bottle of Tito's for $560.

This must have been a misprint, surely? Actually, ... idk. If they were 1/10 the price listed here, then they're fairly normal prices; so there's no way that's the case, cuz there would definitely be some kind of upcharge. But the upcharge being 900% is just unfathomable.

F1 isn’t for the poors or even middle class. Didn’t they have a race in Las Vegas where they blocked off all the good sight lines and view from the walking bridge?

They intentionally blocked off the views from various hotels if the hotels hadn't paid a "viewing fee", so that people couldn't see the race from their rooms.

That sucks. I watched the Australian Grand Prix from my apartment balcony. Not much they could do to prevent it though

in Vegas they put big fences *everywhere* around the track, specifically so that people couldn't see unless they paid.

I figure I have to deal with four days of noise, disruption and crowds. The least I deserve is a free view of the race.

Those people justifying these insane prices and the food is sh!t lmfao but carry on 🤡

Are they taking payments in CRO? Lol

Yeah that was already the same last year. And the drink prices match. Idk why but Miami seems to be the worst offender

Foam ear plugs ebay $0.39/pair, same plugs at F1 $20

Oh, nah.... Bad enough you'd have me out there baking under the fucking sun but then you have the gall to proceed to rob me for being hungry/thirsty? I wish I had more hands to flip you more than two middle fingers

Jokes on you, my ass is sitting in the sparking lot slamming a bag of Dorito’s, fuck those prices 😂

You folks gotta try the pasta! It's got a real nice profit margin.

Trash prices listed by Trash people.

Chilled prawn was a lame attempt at making cocktail shrimp sound more bougie

I remember when we had f1 first come to Austin and people were inquiring if there was a way to bring their boats and shit to the track (there is definitely not). The amount of money in F1 is obscene.

Those are not prices, those are phone numbers

wtf? How many nachos do you get for $180?

I live in Maine and I believe market rate for a lobster roll is $28 right now

These come with a side bjs or something?

No food is worth that much.

Here’s the thing, if you can afford to attend an F1 sporting event, you’re in a totally different income bracket than majority of the people. These are Applebees prices to them.

Okay, who else here had to internet search pink pineapple and rambutan? Also, I love how non-specific stone fruit is, it’ll be… some sort of stone fruit, you get what you get okay along with your very specific rambutan, pink pineapple, watermelon and coconut granita.

If this is just a case of a massive price gouge because they can, then I hope whoever was in charge of this dies dies dies

It's hardly surprising. The target audience of F1 is rich people. There's a reason one of their main sponsors is Rolex.

the $400 to add-on an ounce of caviar… and here i was thinking i was bougie when i pay extra for guac at Taco Bell

Because the customer buys it. Remember kids, is the price to high, don't buy.

This is just sad

Is this real? Can someone explain, are those actual prices???!?!?

F1 is by far the most prestigious autosport in the world. The guys who come to watch it and buy VIP tickets are not going to care about the price. Imagine telling a poor Somalian kid that you just paid $10 for a pizza. He'd be out of his mind, that's more than he earns in a month working in a coal mine! Are you a fucking insane!?!? That's how you feel when a really rich person pays $300 for a snack.

Look at me. I’m the poor Somalian kid now.

Crazy

I’m suddenly not hungry.

I was intrigued and looked into this- I thought maybe this was Jamaican dollars because that would make sense. Nope, this is American dollars. Each order is a platter that serves 4, but the prices are still insane

They seem insane, but I am not really seeing the difference between this and the really upscale restaurants that you pay several hundred (if not more) per plate. Yes it is at a sporting event, which already normally carries a premium but it is also F1 which has always been a rich mans sport. Both use high prices to promote exclusivity.

Thats gotta be in Nigerian Naira

lets just empty your pockets

That food had better make me bust in my fucking pants from how good it is, hard enough to fix my back and add about 8 inches to my height.

Goddamn I thought the 14 dollar carne asada nachos down the street was bad

Rambutan, pretty unusual.

Just throwing this out here, a NASCAR race track in Virginia sells their own hot dogs & they’re cheap & delicious.

Formula 1 isn't for peasants

They call it bites, as in they take a huge bite from your bank account. 💸💸💸💸

Lol everybody is welcome,some people more than others,

It says lobster rollS implying more than one. If it's ten of them then ok!

The empanadas are a steal!

How is the yellowfin poke $20 less than a just a plate of fucking fruit?

it's just money. if you have enough of it it stops mattering, especially if you don't have to work for it. i assume tickets go for thousands, tens of thousands of dollars so you can charge 300 or 500 dollars for food. it seems absurd to us normal folks but it's all just numbers.

More proof that the rich don't know how to spend their money. Give it back.

180 nachos, whats wrong with the world...

That's ok I'd rather make my car payment

I'm sure the empanada costs $10

The cheapest thing is steamed buns? 😅 wtf

I could buy a fishing boat and catch the lobsters myself for those prices!

No way, should food cost as much as a bill.

Steamed buns..US$120😯😯😯

You need to smack some one

I'd rather eat my own shit than pay these obscene amounts of money for such ordinary dishes. Even if I had the money I'd refuse.

I better in the fucking cockpit if I’m paying these prices lol

(Reading from far away) what’s that? 20$? That’s pretty steep but standard for Hard… *HOLY SHIT*

How high do ya gotta be to pay $180 for nachos, good lord...

I’ve always wanted to spend my weekly food allowance on one entree, dreams really do come true!

Rich people deserve to be robbed like this.

Formula 1 just as stupid

Guys, I think we can retire the penny now.

jamaican dollars

Caviar will never be worth it and it baffles me that people treat it in as high of a regard as it is.

Good lord. It’s like they decided to just play ‘move the decimal to the left till you are bored’.

What did you expect.