The only people to blame are the customers. This is consistent with the fact that people like overpriced crap. At marche Jean-Talon there’s a stand that sells fresh fruit juices for $5.50 when fruit is cheap and abundant at the market. And a crepe stand selling $13 crepes. it’s bloody dough for crying out loud.

No thank-you. Me and my friends strictly avoid places like this one and you should too. There are plenty of inexpensive places with good food that deserve your hard-earned money…a few examples are express st-zotique for a real sandwich or barros luco for a decent priced tasty lunch.

The soup and sandwich combo, I get the full sandwich, goes for about $14.  That’s the normal lunch price for many of the restaurants in the area.  The cheaper ones, well, lack a lot to be desired and I seldom ever return – think cheap price, cheap ingredients.  You ever wonder how McD or Burger King sell the crap so cheap. When is the last time you ever heard 100% Real Beef in their ads.  Good luck.
I love their Pudding Chomeur with a cafe a longe.  

I have been dishwashing at soupesoup for about 2 years as I learn french/finish mcgill, and I now get 12/hour including lunch. Soupesoup pays the staff well, many (probably most) of whom are also working artists or performers, who in turn are more enabled to give back to the community through the arts. At Duluth I work with a dancer, a 3d visual artist, a stylist (the last two who were at the Grammy's this year nominated for best music video for their work in 'hurricane'), two actresses, and a tattoo artist (and two non-artists.) I am a photographer. It's nice to have a job on the side where people treat you respectfully and the hours don't keep you up until 4:30 am. Maybe you value the arts, maybe you don't, but take my point into consideration.

Get a potage or a bean soup instead of a brothy one if you are hungry, they are way more filling. But almost everybody gets the 'petit combo' for 7.95 and is full (well I assume they are because the same people come in several times a week.)

They are only in plastic containers after the lunch rush; hardly anybody comes after 3pm. If you want the best experience come at 1pm when nothing has run out.

And yeah; that person's bill obviously had coffees and desserts on it or something. It's fair to not like the soup; although i usually love my lunch from time to time we have a soup I don't really like, but not fair to say it costed that much when that's flat out impossible even if you got the largest lunch we serve.

I am obviously biased, as I work there, but I think my boss is employing a business model that is good for the community which does involve a slightly higher cost, but in which the extra cost goes towards your own body (fast food tastes good but isn't usually healthy; our ingredients are expensive) and towards the staff. More things are important in a business where you spend your money than the price of the final product. Put otherwise, Soupesoup is pretty much the polar opposite of wal-mart and the wal-mart restaurants of the world.

Do you still think she should get off that 'high horse'?

I have been dishwashing at soupesoup for about 2 years as I learn french/finish mcgill, and I now get 12/hour including lunch. Soupesoup pays the staff well, many (probably most) of whom are also working artists or performers, who in turn are more enabled to give back to the community through the arts. At Duluth I work with a dancer, a 3d visual artist, a stylist (the last two who were at the Grammy's this year nominated for best music video for their work in 'hurricane'), two actresses, and a tattoo artist (and two non-artists.) I am a photographer. It's nice to have a job on the side where people treat you respectfully and the hours don't keep you up until 4:30 am. Maybe you value the arts, maybe you don't, but take my point into consideration.

Get a potage or a bean soup instead of a brothy one if you are hungry, they are way more filling. But almost everybody gets the 'petit combo' for 7.95 and is full (well I assume they are because the same people come in several times a week.)

They are only in plastic containers after the lunch rush; hardly anybody comes after 3pm. If you want the best experience come at 1pm when nothing has run out.

And yeah; that person's bill obviously had coffees and desserts on it or something. It's fair to not like the soup; although i usually love my lunch from time to time we have a soup I don't really like, but not fair to say it costed that much when that's flat out impossible even if you got the largest lunch we serve.

I am obviously biased, as I work there, but I think my boss is employing a business model that is good for the community which does involve a slightly higher cost, but in which the extra cost goes towards your own body (fast food tastes good but isn't usually healthy; our ingredients are expensive) and towards the staff. More things are important in a business where you spend your money than the price of the final product. Put otherwise, Soupesoup is pretty much the polar opposite of wal-mart and the wal-mart restaurants of the world.

Do you still think she should get off that 'high horse'?