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Restaurant Week attracted record number of diners
Well, your reviews and mine were overwhelmingly positive, and now the hard numbers confirm what we suspected: summer Restaurant Week was a hit.
The twice-a-year Miami Valley Restaurant Association promotion in which diners can enjoy a three-course meal for $20.09 and the restaurants donate $1 for every special meal sold to a local charity resulted in a total of 19,863 meals sold, according to Amy Zahora, the MVRA’s executive director.
That number shatters all previous one-week Restaurant Week records and is a robust increase from last summer’s Restaurant Week, when about 12,000 meals were sold. It came up just short of the 20,009 meals sold during Winter Restaurant Week in early 2009, when the promotion was extended by a week due to dicey weather during week one and therefore deserves an asterisk in the record books.
Several restaurants saw a “nice-sized increase” from previous Restaurant Weeks, Zahora said. “Buckhorn Tavern doubled their numbers with 507 meals sold, Barleycorn’s also more than doubled with 304 sold, and Fleming’s did a whopping 2,707 meals,” she said.
Winter Restaurant Week — just in case you’re wondering — is scheduled for Jan. 24-29, 2010. But beware the price increase: the meals will cost a penny more, to $20.10.
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By Sheryl Cowers
September 2, 2009 1:01 PM | Link to this
Your forgot Melting Pot, wallyp. You can’t eat there close to those prices except at festivals. But there are plenty of places more expensive than Fleming’s. A lot of upscale chain steakhouses are.
By wallyp
August 31, 2009 12:47 PM | Link to this
I am not surprised at the number of meals for Fleming’s. Because the regular menu prices are so high (read overpriced), Fleming’s is probably the best bargain on Restaurant Week (even more so than L’Aubege). I know it is the only time I can afford to even think about eating there.