Store-brand sherbet
I used to work at an astoundingly cheap restaurant... but the cheap was all in the owners. The place was decorated in TJ Maxx finery... customers were made to sit in the coatroom when it got busy... The most egregious, I think, was the dessert. For $4.50 one could purchase a serving of "Lemon Sorbet." It was store brand lemon sherbet.$1.99 a half gallon. Embarrassing. Oh yeah... I also had to pay out the kitchen hombres at the end of the week. All cash, all illegal.
( salamander, Wed 13 Jul 2011, 2:52, 3 replies)

Ten points for using 'egregious',
a word that can either mean 'outstandingly terrible' or equally 'fantastic'.
I guess you mean the former?
( Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Wed 13 Jul 2011, 11:38, closed)

I'm pretty sure this
is standard practice for most restaurants.

Even the top end places buy their food in - there was some scandal (read tedious whining) in the UK press a while back because a celeb chef had been caught selling dodgy old meat pies he bought from a wholesaler as 'home made' in one of his eye-wateringly expensive eateries.
(username failed moderation, Wed 13 Jul 2011, 13:11, closed)

I'm not sure why you class that as "whining".
Perhaps you're too important to care about fraud?
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Wed 13 Jul 2011, 17:59, closed)