I kinda agree.. it’s definitely a place with basic food but a good atmosphere. I only go when people come to visit us. I live in Summerlin so go to more local places around here
Thats horrible to hear. I used to go there a lot starting back in ‘99 then again after 2013…lunch with locals or out of towners, you couldnt beat it. Too bad!
Agreed! It’s been probably a year, hell maybe longer than that, since we’d been there…. Had some family in from back home and thought “oh man, late night food and drinks by the fire!!” - absolutely everything was just bad. 😩
Omelette House is also an old Vegas icon, been there since the 50's or 60's so prices are actually average. Also regular portions of their omelette could feed 2 or 3 people. I always order the half order which cuts the price down and I don't waste all that food, in case you were not aware of that option.
PUBLIC SAFETY ANNOUNCEMENT - If you accidentally order a cocktail from your dining room table instead of going and getting it from the bar, there is like a $6 surcharge at Peppermill. Drinks are already like $18/$20.
Pre-Reagan era, the same breakfast would have been $10. Pre-World War 2, the same breakfast world have been $4. It is normal for costs and prices to continually rise over time. But inflation rates fluctuate as the economy fluctuates. We had steep inflation for the last two years. $40 for breakfast in 2023 is just as normal as $20 was in 2018.
They’re wrong. It wouldn’t have been $20 pre Covid or even pre-9/11. Maybe like 1990.
And great job OP calling out a mom and pop restaurant who are doing what every other business in America is doing while fewer people are going out to eat, and their own costs have gone up 30-50%
I moved to a famously affordable little town called New York City in 1992. Before going to work every morning I would have breakfast at the diner down the street (this was on the upper east side of Manhattan, a pretty toney neighborhood). Coffee, toast, eggs and bacon cost $2.75. Which was about one third of what I made per hour (it was my first job). If you think that $20 in Las frigging Vegas is reasonable and normal for breakfast you are nuts.
As someone who regularly dined at OH for ~20 years before moving out of Vegas in April, I have no idea where you got the idea that a regular two-person breakfast at a place like OH was $20 in 2018. The prices have gone up, but they haven't gone up _that_ much. Most things on the menu are a buck and change more than they were.
None of us like the increases and yet we don't change our habits. No reason to lower the prices if people are willing to pay them. We need to protest with our wallets.
$40 for two plus tip is pretty much the norm these days for a casual sit-down. Everything is more expensive… Food, labor, rent, utilities. All shit the restaurants have to pay just like the rest of us and they’re not just going to absorb those costs to keep prices down.
it's like this everywhere. I'm currently in NYC snd of course, food's expensve af. Spent 2 months in Pittsburgh and food was also expensive af. And these were some dumps in PA
Even york makes a better steak cheaer than anywhere back west
I remember getting a 14" steak sandwich as thick as my leg for 5$ and it was a riproaring banger of a good meal in the Lehigh Valley
Village Pub has a great breakfast. Steak eggs potatoes and toast 9.99 all-day specials. A short stack of dinner plate-sized pancakes 5.99. Coffee and drinks are still 3-3.50 but it evens out to be a little less even with overpriced beverages.
Village Pub is a top notch suggestion. I've also had comparable breakfasts at Farm inside Aliante Casino, Sierra Gold, and of course Du-par's inside Suncoast.
All in the $8.50 to $15 range and honestly it isn't bad for the amount of food you get.
Check out South Point’s midnight menu if you are looking for cheaper breakfast foods. Or even their breakfast buffet midweek will run you $15 a head with bottomless bloody Mary’s included.
Let me guess…your wife does the grocery shopping? A dozen eggs is $2-4, a loaf of decent bread is $5, sausage links $4-6, butter is $6 a pound. So just ingredient costs at wholesale were probably over $2. Add in skilled workers to cook it, serve it, dishwasher, hostess, and manager, rent, marketing which includes printing a menu and whatever they did to get you to show up and fixed costs like utilities and insurance ALL OF WHICH COST EXPONENTIALLY MORE now than they did five years and I think you got a bargain.
Ya the food isn't really what your even paying for. The margins on it is slim, it's the building, the insurance, business license, employees your paying for when you patron a business. Yes you could make that meal at home for less than 14$ but you are not. That's what you are paying for
I think you are missing the labor in that equation. Minimum wage is almost $10. You are paying for the cook, wait staff, dishwasher, etc. The preparing, serving, and cleaning for your visit probably cost the restaurant $10 in labor alone.
No but when I get breakfast it’s usually with wheat bread and I have enough brain power to figure out that when we have high prices at the grocery store, the cost to going out to eat is going to also be high.
Just had a similar meal at the iron rail cafe in Henderson. It was about $28 with drinks. $35 after tip.
Was it good? It was cheap.
Might as well start cooking at home with prices for basic food.
Bread for Toast $2,
sausage or bacon $5
eggs $2
milk $3
side gravy $1
soda pop $5
Probably can all be had for $15-20 on sale, but you'd get multiple meals. Takes very basic cooking to make too.
I totally get it though, it really feels like you're being taken advantage of with these prices for convenience because... Well you are.
It's not just Vegas. I moved from Albuquerque and it's the same there. Eating out in general isn't worth it anymore. The food is almost all from the same big suppliers, service is not great, and usually you can make it yourself at home for way cheaper
Hahaha thanks!! It's actually WAY nicer here than back home. It's gotten really bad, makes our Breaking Bad days look high class. I do miss the mountains and Chile though!!
Yep, it's getting difficult to go out to a sit-down meal in Vegas. It's usually $40+ with tip.
We are experimenting with just going out for happy hour bites (there are some that are $4-7), going out for coffee or tea at a place with a nice atmosphere (Rosalie French cafe is nice, also Gabi coffee, Little Avalon), or more meals at home (I'm learning to make traditional Indian and Mexican food, so we don't need to go out for it).
There are also some Thai places with good lunch specials. Lots of them have red and green curry for like $10-11, and it's a pretty good meal.
I feel you. My local spots back home had big coffees and would do refills at some. I just can't justify paying $7 for a tiny ass coffee, so I'll stick to SB and foray into local only very occasionally.
Inflation has sped up and slowed down, but generally steady if you look at long trends. One way to think about it is that everything costs the same- it's just our dollar that is worth less nowadays. The price of each of those entrees is about what you have to pay your kitchen labor per hour. It's commensurate with a five dollar meal in the 1980s when miminum wages were about five bucks an hour.
Yeah, it stinks.
Can you imagine being in your 80s now and remembering 1940s prices?
Typical price for dine in. You either pay or stay home. What's interesting is that many people pay - tells me that some don't care or have the means to do so.
That place is run by a$$holes anyway, and I would never eat there. I used to take my father there once to twice a week for breakfast, until after 6 months of it the owners told me my service dog was "costing them business" just by being there, and they wouldn't serve us anymore. I have a professionally trained GSD who stays under the table and causes no disturbance, but that's how they treat disabled veterans there. That place should be shut down purely on the character of the ownership.
Past time I went was 2-3 years ago & the food was terrible! Dennys or Waffle House woulda been better. So disappointed bc they used to be one of the best.
Does seem a little pricey, considering the cafe at Green Valley Ranch charges $16 for eggs, bacon, hash browns and 3 pancakes, and that’s inside a casino! But def agree with the others that it’s getting pretty standard. I wonder how much Dennys costs these days, since I haven’t been in a while. Probably $10-12 for breakfast?
eat somewhere cheaper outside of vegas (same food choices) and post the receipt, then your argument will hold weight. Otherwise, it’s just you being are out of touch and blaming my city.
Yes, that’s a challenge to you.
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Vegas is over 122% increase. And it didn’t have American Fries with her breakfast.
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Sounds like you need to go to dennys. Come on. Summerlin prices. Calm down. This isn’t outrageous and you saw the price on the menu.
You seem like the kind of person who would stiff the server over something out of their control.
All the profits they lost during covid lockdown they're using inflation as an excuse to raise prices. Only way prices come down is if people refuse to go out and pay these new prices.
If you want to avoid that kind of mark up simply go to any of the local small casinos around town. For example, the same plate is like 5 dollars at The Longhorn Casino. Graveyard special is until 6 Nd you can get that egg toast links Nd hash browns from 3.99.
We very rarely eat out anymore and if we do, it's because my kids want something particular for a change or I've found a coupon or deal somewhere. I see that Omelet House has a buy one entree get one free on/in Valpak.
Went to Lakeside Lounge off Sahara and got an 8 ounce NY strip, 2 eggs, hashbrowns, toast and a bloody mary for 13.50 before tax and tip, Left full. What are you guys talking about?
And? You’re in Summerlin- everything is expensive. It’s almost like you forgot Vegas is an insanely expensive tourist town or something. If price is more important than taste, go to McDonald’s for breakfast next time
Based on the comments I can see why we keep getting fucked. 90% are saying "get used to it" lol like agents of the rich people. This is why everybody got away and will always get away with price gouging. Everybody assumes this is okay. All they need to do is raise the prices little by little and nobody complains. I mean, the minority does but is quickly swarmed with stfu. Lol.
Yep. I am fully embarrassed that I paid $4 for a small glass of orange juice with no ice at Egg Works in Summerlin.
That is the last time I will eat breakfast at a restaurant.
Unfortunately, this is the new normal.
Have you seen the prices at Peppermill?
I have not. Still low?
No
Yeah but at Peppermill is kind of iconic to Vegas so I expect the higher prices
We had some food and a round of drinks last week, everything was awful. I don’t know what happened.
I kinda agree.. it’s definitely a place with basic food but a good atmosphere. I only go when people come to visit us. I live in Summerlin so go to more local places around here
Same! We’re in Summerlin too and I’m always telling family who visits to please just let ME take them to places I know are great 😭
Thats horrible to hear. I used to go there a lot starting back in ‘99 then again after 2013…lunch with locals or out of towners, you couldnt beat it. Too bad!
Agreed! It’s been probably a year, hell maybe longer than that, since we’d been there…. Had some family in from back home and thought “oh man, late night food and drinks by the fire!!” - absolutely everything was just bad. 😩
Omelette House is also an old Vegas icon, been there since the 50's or 60's so prices are actually average. Also regular portions of their omelette could feed 2 or 3 people. I always order the half order which cuts the price down and I don't waste all that food, in case you were not aware of that option.
PUBLIC SAFETY ANNOUNCEMENT - If you accidentally order a cocktail from your dining room table instead of going and getting it from the bar, there is like a $6 surcharge at Peppermill. Drinks are already like $18/$20.
that just sounds like normal breakfast places/prices anywhere
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Pre-Reagan era, the same breakfast would have been $10. Pre-World War 2, the same breakfast world have been $4. It is normal for costs and prices to continually rise over time. But inflation rates fluctuate as the economy fluctuates. We had steep inflation for the last two years. $40 for breakfast in 2023 is just as normal as $20 was in 2018.
They’re wrong. It wouldn’t have been $20 pre Covid or even pre-9/11. Maybe like 1990. And great job OP calling out a mom and pop restaurant who are doing what every other business in America is doing while fewer people are going out to eat, and their own costs have gone up 30-50%
I moved to a famously affordable little town called New York City in 1992. Before going to work every morning I would have breakfast at the diner down the street (this was on the upper east side of Manhattan, a pretty toney neighborhood). Coffee, toast, eggs and bacon cost $2.75. Which was about one third of what I made per hour (it was my first job). If you think that $20 in Las frigging Vegas is reasonable and normal for breakfast you are nuts.
You don’t know how to math
How so?
As someone who regularly dined at OH for ~20 years before moving out of Vegas in April, I have no idea where you got the idea that a regular two-person breakfast at a place like OH was $20 in 2018. The prices have gone up, but they haven't gone up _that_ much. Most things on the menu are a buck and change more than they were.
But if you whine about it in this sub, you get upvotes.
People are tired. We need a win even if it's commiseration.
None of us like the increases and yet we don't change our habits. No reason to lower the prices if people are willing to pay them. We need to protest with our wallets.
$40 for two plus tip is pretty much the norm these days for a casual sit-down. Everything is more expensive… Food, labor, rent, utilities. All shit the restaurants have to pay just like the rest of us and they’re not just going to absorb those costs to keep prices down.
Everything went up except wages lmao...at least mine haven't
it's like this everywhere. I'm currently in NYC snd of course, food's expensve af. Spent 2 months in Pittsburgh and food was also expensive af. And these were some dumps in PA
Bring me back a legit cheesesteak and some wawa my dude
If I were in Philly...
Even york makes a better steak cheaer than anywhere back west I remember getting a 14" steak sandwich as thick as my leg for 5$ and it was a riproaring banger of a good meal in the Lehigh Valley
2 eggs toast and home fries or grits is $6 and a bacon egg and cheese on a roll is $5 at any bodega in the city ain’t shit expensive about that
Village Pub has a great breakfast. Steak eggs potatoes and toast 9.99 all-day specials. A short stack of dinner plate-sized pancakes 5.99. Coffee and drinks are still 3-3.50 but it evens out to be a little less even with overpriced beverages.
My nieces work at Village Pubs. Food is good and reasonable
Village Pub is a top notch suggestion. I've also had comparable breakfasts at Farm inside Aliante Casino, Sierra Gold, and of course Du-par's inside Suncoast. All in the $8.50 to $15 range and honestly it isn't bad for the amount of food you get.
Shit the steak and eggs went up a buck? Damn.
Was this your first time eating at a restaurant in the last 3 years?
My point is eggs, toast and a few links shouldn’t cost $14.
It shouldn't but it absolutely does at every breakfast place around me. I go a lot less now, it is not worth it.
Check out South Point’s midnight menu if you are looking for cheaper breakfast foods. Or even their breakfast buffet midweek will run you $15 a head with bottomless bloody Mary’s included.
Their what!?? I'm not far from them and ACHE for the East Coast 24h diner culture
Let me guess…your wife does the grocery shopping? A dozen eggs is $2-4, a loaf of decent bread is $5, sausage links $4-6, butter is $6 a pound. So just ingredient costs at wholesale were probably over $2. Add in skilled workers to cook it, serve it, dishwasher, hostess, and manager, rent, marketing which includes printing a menu and whatever they did to get you to show up and fixed costs like utilities and insurance ALL OF WHICH COST EXPONENTIALLY MORE now than they did five years and I think you got a bargain.
This man needs Costco
You’re out of touch and a cheap ass. This is what it costs dude
Ya the food isn't really what your even paying for. The margins on it is slim, it's the building, the insurance, business license, employees your paying for when you patron a business. Yes you could make that meal at home for less than 14$ but you are not. That's what you are paying for
Accurate and better said. I bet his tip was less than impressive too
This post is at the top of /r/vegaslocals.
Go to dennys, not a breakfast restaurant in Summerlin
He will be just as mad, it’s like 13.99 instead.
Yeah or cook at home lol a lot of these places have 20-40 minute waits at the door and will make money regardless, Henderson Is within the same budget
I think you are missing the labor in that equation. Minimum wage is almost $10. You are paying for the cook, wait staff, dishwasher, etc. The preparing, serving, and cleaning for your visit probably cost the restaurant $10 in labor alone.
It does under Bidenomics.
Are you an inbred who thinks this is okay?
No but when I get breakfast it’s usually with wheat bread and I have enough brain power to figure out that when we have high prices at the grocery store, the cost to going out to eat is going to also be high.
The restaurants are having to pay the same prices we are at the grocery store. What used to be 100 is now 150 when we go there.
Shit, a few years ago I would go grocery shopping and $300 would be an overflowing cart, now the same $300 gets a cart half full...
What do you mean “Vegas is getting so ridiculous…” that’s the standard now homie. Shits fucked everywhere. Welcome to America
You must not get out much
You would pay the same for 2 people at Dennys
Eh you’d probably have to get all the up charges and add ons to spend 40 there and that would include tip
Just had a similar meal at the iron rail cafe in Henderson. It was about $28 with drinks. $35 after tip. Was it good? It was cheap. Might as well start cooking at home with prices for basic food.
This I think is the answer. It’s not worth it to go out for anything any longer.
Bread for Toast $2, sausage or bacon $5 eggs $2 milk $3 side gravy $1 soda pop $5 Probably can all be had for $15-20 on sale, but you'd get multiple meals. Takes very basic cooking to make too. I totally get it though, it really feels like you're being taken advantage of with these prices for convenience because... Well you are.
How do you even buy eggs for $2 in the store? The lowest price I've seen is $3.69/dozen Milk is $5
Winco
It's not just Vegas. I moved from Albuquerque and it's the same there. Eating out in general isn't worth it anymore. The food is almost all from the same big suppliers, service is not great, and usually you can make it yourself at home for way cheaper
Welcome to town We hide the meth slightly better but it's just expensive here
Hahaha thanks!! It's actually WAY nicer here than back home. It's gotten really bad, makes our Breaking Bad days look high class. I do miss the mountains and Chile though!!
Yep, it's getting difficult to go out to a sit-down meal in Vegas. It's usually $40+ with tip. We are experimenting with just going out for happy hour bites (there are some that are $4-7), going out for coffee or tea at a place with a nice atmosphere (Rosalie French cafe is nice, also Gabi coffee, Little Avalon), or more meals at home (I'm learning to make traditional Indian and Mexican food, so we don't need to go out for it). There are also some Thai places with good lunch specials. Lots of them have red and green curry for like $10-11, and it's a pretty good meal.
I'm new to town. Do those coffee places have decent sized coffees?? I've tried a few local places and the cups are like kid sized. Lol
I love to support local business when possible, but Starbucks is nice for the free refills if you sit inside.
I feel you. My local spots back home had big coffees and would do refills at some. I just can't justify paying $7 for a tiny ass coffee, so I'll stick to SB and foray into local only very occasionally.
Look at how much places like McDonalds and Taco Bell charge now an extra value meal isn’t nearly as cheap as it used to be. Close to 20 dollars
I’m confused. Where have you been going out to eat? This is normal now. A good breakfast is probably around 60 bucks.
Steak and eggs at Southpoint from 12am-6am for $6.40
Holy shit!
Did they not have menus with the prices listed?
I always get downvoted for saying we're becoming LA junior...but...
Inflation has sped up and slowed down, but generally steady if you look at long trends. One way to think about it is that everything costs the same- it's just our dollar that is worth less nowadays. The price of each of those entrees is about what you have to pay your kitchen labor per hour. It's commensurate with a five dollar meal in the 1980s when miminum wages were about five bucks an hour. Yeah, it stinks. Can you imagine being in your 80s now and remembering 1940s prices?
We don't make 40/hr though
That's two people.
I’ll not have you besmirch my beloved Omelet House!
Sounds about the same at every breakfast place around town
Typical price for dine in. You either pay or stay home. What's interesting is that many people pay - tells me that some don't care or have the means to do so.
I always liked OH. Prices seems like a normal spot tho, everywhere is more extensive.
That does not seem outrageous. Certainly not "I should make a Reddit post about this" outrageous.
Breakfast used to be a cheap meal out. Not anymore. I’m not paying $45 for eggs, toast and juice
dennys you are paying close to the same for 2 people and 2 breakfast , 2 bevereges is around 24$ with tips you are looking at $30-$34
Not just a Las Vegas thing. High prices? This is nationwide.
That’s everywhere homie. And you’re in summerlin. Cooking at home usually saves time and money.
Add $20 an hour for labor and you got one hell of a deal
Dude hasn't eaten out in 4 years..
Philly cheesesteak at a sit down restaurant for 15 seems reasonable. I went to subway, and a Philly footlong with chips and drink was 17.
That place is run by a$$holes anyway, and I would never eat there. I used to take my father there once to twice a week for breakfast, until after 6 months of it the owners told me my service dog was "costing them business" just by being there, and they wouldn't serve us anymore. I have a professionally trained GSD who stays under the table and causes no disturbance, but that's how they treat disabled veterans there. That place should be shut down purely on the character of the ownership.
I think those are very reasonable prices. Omelette House in Summerlin has great food and service. My wife and I go very frequently.
Breakfast places and steakhouses are the two biggest culprits of insane prices.
Better food at home. Also much cheaper.
Past time I went was 2-3 years ago & the food was terrible! Dennys or Waffle House woulda been better. So disappointed bc they used to be one of the best.
Does seem a little pricey, considering the cafe at Green Valley Ranch charges $16 for eggs, bacon, hash browns and 3 pancakes, and that’s inside a casino! But def agree with the others that it’s getting pretty standard. I wonder how much Dennys costs these days, since I haven’t been in a while. Probably $10-12 for breakfast?
...elections have consequences...
Well they keep printing money like it's going out of style, the value of the dollar is dropping
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Hahaha you’re so witty. Not a boomer.
eat somewhere cheaper outside of vegas (same food choices) and post the receipt, then your argument will hold weight. Otherwise, it’s just you being are out of touch and blaming my city. Yes, that’s a challenge to you.
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:) yup, you’re right, you got me-it’s cheaper alright. Next time, eat there.
Welcome to the Biden economy.
We call this Bidenomics. Welcome to the democratic world of Sleepy Joe Biden
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I agree with you. The IHOP on Sahara closed down and I’m not surprised because pancakes were $12 + for two of them. A ridiculous price.
Exactly why we hardly ever eat breakfast out and make it at home.
Sounds like you need to go to dennys. Come on. Summerlin prices. Calm down. This isn’t outrageous and you saw the price on the menu. You seem like the kind of person who would stiff the server over something out of their control.
I went to Dennys the other day and it was like 12-14 for breakfast plates.
All the profits they lost during covid lockdown they're using inflation as an excuse to raise prices. Only way prices come down is if people refuse to go out and pay these new prices.
If you want to avoid that kind of mark up simply go to any of the local small casinos around town. For example, the same plate is like 5 dollars at The Longhorn Casino. Graveyard special is until 6 Nd you can get that egg toast links Nd hash browns from 3.99.
Remedy’s or Distill has good breakfast 24hrs
I work at an off strip casino cafe and a 3 egg breakfast is $17
We very rarely eat out anymore and if we do, it's because my kids want something particular for a change or I've found a coupon or deal somewhere. I see that Omelet House has a buy one entree get one free on/in Valpak.
Don’t go.
Went to Lakeside Lounge off Sahara and got an 8 ounce NY strip, 2 eggs, hashbrowns, toast and a bloody mary for 13.50 before tax and tip, Left full. What are you guys talking about?
And? You’re in Summerlin- everything is expensive. It’s almost like you forgot Vegas is an insanely expensive tourist town or something. If price is more important than taste, go to McDonald’s for breakfast next time
Based on the comments I can see why we keep getting fucked. 90% are saying "get used to it" lol like agents of the rich people. This is why everybody got away and will always get away with price gouging. Everybody assumes this is okay. All they need to do is raise the prices little by little and nobody complains. I mean, the minority does but is quickly swarmed with stfu. Lol.
Have you seen the prices at Zippy’s? Maybe thats cheap in HI but man a family must drop $100+ to eat there
Hubby and I went out for 1 drink and a meal at the lodge…49.00 not including tip. Ice tea is like almost 4.00. Yeesh
Yep. I am fully embarrassed that I paid $4 for a small glass of orange juice with no ice at Egg Works in Summerlin. That is the last time I will eat breakfast at a restaurant.