New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-01-29

REDUCTION IN RESTAURANT RATES.
GREAT SUCCESS OF CHEAP EATiNd-HooshS AND
GENERAL LOWERING OF PRICES AMONG ALL hA
CEPT THE MOST FASHIONABLE.
Nv means of handbills, placards, notices In
daily and other devices known to advertisers the
public has been informed that reduction In prices at
the various restaurants in this city was about to take
place Scarcely any announcement could be OF greater
interest to the general public than this, as large por
lion of the population Is compelled make use Of eat
ing-houses. Business men almost without exception
take lunch at downtown restaurants. Ladies engaged
in days shopping frequently lunch AT restiar"h'S
play accustomed eat supper after the close o
the performance Added to these il large NUMBER Oh
persons who live in hired lodgings aud take all then
meals at restaurants. These diverse causes nave gwen
encouragement to almost innunerable eatins-houses'
which are be found scattered all over the clty" "e
they have been of all grades Of merit, style, ana price,
there has been no material change in rates for huper
of wears past Many restaurants with low rates vert
established some years ago, and judging from the ire
qucnt additions TO the number, they nave prosPe'O"'
Prices III these and others have been reduced ''
Winter
HTRrBuYE reporter visited several restaurants rev
DAYS ago selecting those which representatives Oh
their class The Hotel Brunswick and Delnonicos VIZ
rous houses have not reduced their prices ana oo o
intend to cut down. They say their patrons "i'
fastidiaus and they obliged 10 bhy the WY
choicest meats, poultry, ana supplies
come 10 this market. the prices OF which they ASST.
a. high now before the panic. Iney say that VIII
poultry il selling IN market for 10 cents per poa.
tbey nay 30 cents, because the cheaper pouiuy n'
been frozen time. and while u u pctier.G sowId
their customers would detect the difference anu MT
be dissatisfied il served with IL. SO when ~ poSslp
10 buy iai for apiece they pay 10 cents an"
find when they pluck the bird That the difference oU
dition is apparent at Then their COOKS WI, no'
take less paw than they have always received heIo
t0forc Mr. Mitchell OF the Brunswick showed the r.
porter where thc decorators at Work III ne man
dinns ROOM SAID that he intended to spend $500
In newly furnishing and decorating the rOOil WIN IT,
purpose of making it the finest dinngioOh III 'iis
country Now" said he, "tell Inc now, when an
paving ont money in that way, and paying 20 PER o
rel for potatoes and go cents per pound iof Dul'e van
retncc my pr1ccSi e. -, . ..,, h,,o re
Other restaurants, almost without execution nave r.
duccd their prices IRON ID 10 20 per cent. farh'r a.
SxtI-avc. and Broadway one of the many rtsaurdn.-
krepcvs whose prices have always been htIe peIgM
DeImoncus has reduced MIS- charges 20 per cent ilc
eaVs that every article winch he buys in the market h'
been reduced IN price enough to warrant inns chhE
Tho pay-rn has been cut down. he finds that inert
are i've servants OF every class walung loI on Nac
and that he can hire walters and cooks Tor niue moIe
than one-half the wages formerly PAID Ioultg nis
fallen and game with which the market IS ovcrstocKeu'
was never so cneap. Beef that formerly cost "a GEMS
per pound costs Is and 10 cents.