March 21, 2008
Behold Brooklyn's $5 Soda
We've seen expensive pancakes, hams and who can forget the $25,000 frozen haute chocolate? But now overpriced sodas are hitting the scene, and there aren't even gold flakes floating in them. Or refills!
The Brooklyn Paper reports on Myrtle Avenue restaurant Five Spot, an establishment that is now charging $5 per pop (a huge change from their old price of $1)! To put it in perspective, meals there cost about 8 bucks (as do their vodka tonics and Brooklyn Lagers), so parents loading their kids up with soda are in serious sticker shock once the bill comes around.
When the owner, Malik Armstead, was asked about the hefty pricetag on a Pepsi, he said, “Our drinks are, like, 25 ounces. But most places give people only an eight-, 12-, or 16-ounce glass.” Fun fact: a 20-oz soda at the bodega will run you about $1.50 (and 6 12-oz cans for $2.19). As for the 25-oz steins the sodas are poured into, customers report they are mostly filled with ice and contain "false bottoms."
Photo via onesmallflicker's flickr.
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and remember...you're really paying for the service!
you're paying for ice.
They don't put no bourbon in it or nothin'?
It's because hipsters don't drink anything when they go to bars. They go and sit there sipping a soda instead of getting a beer
You shouldn't be drinking soda anyway.
I know it is by Pratt, but do hipsters go to Five Spot? Why does every other thread have to have a mention of hipsters. Are you a troll?
Quenepa hit it on the head.
Rocknrope....
Pulp Fiction allusion.. nice
you must be kidding me? you couldn't get away with 5 dollar soda in manhattan unless you were Loewes Theaters much less Brooklyn? I mean Brooklyn?
Pratt Brats will go there and won't even know the difference when they pat with daddy's credit card. damn the five spot, they're soul food be good!
Am I a troll I have been going to 5 spot since it opened many years ago. When they put up the awning that said ribs I was first in line - the place used to be a restaurant supply store selling pots and equipment.
Hipsters (is that a bad word?) go to bars get the cheapest product and milk it - whether it's PBR or soda. Like it's a Starbucks.
Hipsters don't come from Pratt either.
I like hipsters - it's not a bad thing.
does it come with free refills like you get at the Chinese buffet place?
Do you know that there are over 300 calories (and 83 carbs) in a 25 oz Coke? Plus the corn syrup they use now helps make you fatter quicker than cane sugar.
Save your 5 bucks.
http://www.caloriesindrinks.com/cid/compare.cfm
Just another reason NOT to go to the 5 spot. The service there is terrible. Even when we have been the only table, the food, which is mediocre at best, still takes over an hour to arrive. I'm not sure why anyone would go there when it was cheap, let alone with such a price hike.
I'm baffled by these hipster comments.
I'm in favor of high soda prices. Actually, they could implement a soda tax to pay for MTA "capital improvements" (i.e., legalized theft through project overruns).
It's good for the environment, cause soda makes you belch, which warms the planet.
If all soda was $10 a glass, we could stop global warming, prevent cavities, lose weight and all live happier, healthier lives.
Wait so you can buy a 20oz. bottle for $1.50 but a 25oz. cup costs $5?
Interesting rationale.
actually hipsters don't go there..its pretty ghetto..
I agree, it's more ghetto fab than hipster holdout. And when I was a commuter who went to Pratt, I didn't have daddy's card to pay for my beers at the Alibi or by chow mein at Kum Kau - I'm sure there are plenty there now who pay for their own sodas.
i never buy sodas are restaurants. They always price them way to high and water and beer is better.
Forget the $5 coke, where does a bar in the ghetto get off charging $8 for an alcoholic beverage? Is it the only game in town? Are they cultivating a "classy" image with high prices? Pricing is such a silly psychological game. Ridiculous.
Yes, the ghetto of Clinton Hill.