| It's definitely a problem that lacks an easy solution; either way, a restaurant oculd be doomed.
On the one hand - not being part of the DDP program means you won't see as much business anymore, nwo that those DDPs are so popular. Less business = less revenue.
On the other hand - if the payments they receive from the DDP program, per credit, don't cover their costs for the meal? They just LOST money. And remember, "costs" is more than "cost of ingredients", it's also the salary of the cook(s), server(s), dishwasher(s), and so forth ... all the way down to the guy who cleans out the toilet bowls, and all the way up to the General Manager of that restaurant.
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I think in the future, we may see some restaurants providing DDP guests with a menu that indicates certain items as being excluded from the DDP. Really, it's the only "compromise" that addresses BOTH problems: it keeps DDP guests coming, BUT, it avoids any one DDP meal from losing them money.
__________________ -- Sean
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