RAISING PRICES AGAIN? ARE YOU EFFING KIDDING ME?

Reviewed by Beckah Lee on Fri, 04/15/2011 - 14:58
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Beckah Lee
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Review of [CLOSED] Element Fresh
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Stop raising your prices, you are not worth this much. Inflation whatever, buy different maybe um slightly less fresh ingredients? No restaurant raises their prices as often as Element Fresh in Beijing. I'm done with you guys.

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Beckah Lee's picture Beckah Lee Submitted by Guest on Sat, 04/16/2011 - 19:21

Like, basically anything that was reasonably priced there is gone. Shame on you, f*ckers. And they'll just pay off the Beijinger to win their undeserved award, again. X( As*holes. I love how they're not at all apologetic and just use their seasonal menu change as an excuse to raise their dumb prices. Laaaame.

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Emu's picture Emu Submitted by Guest on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 09:21

Their food, especially the signature salads are quite good. Plus compared to other places, you get plenty of attractive woman to distract you during lulls in conversation.

My understanding is that the owner has been losing money on the element fresh brand for the last five years. His Beijing venue is finally successful, so he will charge what ever people are willing to pay.

Running a restaurant franchise is not easy, especially when you put all your effort into it for half a decade without making a buck.

EnduranceAthlete's picture EnduranceAthlete Submitted by Guest on Fri, 07/01/2011 - 18:58

I don't get it either. I refuse to go unless I am with a friend who insists on it. Which means I've been a total of about 5-6 times. I almost always order the same thing on the menu since I arrived 7 months ago -- a tofu wrap. And guess what? The price of it has gone up at least twice, 10 kuai more than when I first went there in December or so. That's a huge increase for a wrap that comes with no sides... I mean for chrissakes it's a tofu wrap. They put a few veggies inside with some marinated tofu. It *was* less than 40 kuai (overpriced already) and now it's something like 45-50.

But that's not nearly as bad as when I got the "healthy" brunch a month ago. The "veggie" omelette was two egg whites with so few veggies inside they should be ashamed to call it a veggie omelette. It came with one slice of generic toast (the kind you get for <10 kuai / 20 slices anywhere in Beijing), one margarine, one strawberry jam, and a side cup of runny yogurt with about 4 chunks of cubed melon on top (all barely edible, I did not finish them). It came with a freshly squeezed OJ so I thought I was getting a good deal but the OJ seemed smaller than normal. I was super disappointed --- and all that for 68 kuai! Un-f**king-believable.

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