[lorenzhs]

Hey, you're making an awful lot of assumptions here. For the record, you won't find a microwave oven or Wonder bread in my kitchen either. I've had a rye sourdough for the past ~2.5 years. Not exactly sandwich bread, but the point stands.

Making the bread themselves is exactly my point - the ingredients are not the most expensive bit. Staff time is.

Now I don't know the restaurant from the article and how high-end it really is, but for $18 I would expect them to make the bread themselves and not use cheap supermarket ingredients. Staff is still the most expensive part.

[toomanythings2]

Again, you may not be correct. I would have to ask my bookkeeper what our labor cost is, I'm not that involved in mine anymore, but it's not that much higher than food cost.