Mark Up

At what point does the price of an item get so marked up that you just cannot buy it? When you calculate what is costs to make and what the charge is, sometimes it is so out of proportion that even though you want to buy it, you just can't. We are planning a going away party for Tuesday and the doctor is orthodox so the food needs to be kosher. All we wanted was baked ziti and salad. We looked on the menu and the tray of ziti with sauce and no meat was $85. The large salad was $55. We figured out that 3 boxes of ziti cost $3.00 and sauce costs less than $6. Less than $9 is selling for $85. Salad costs about $5.00 so $55 is a bit high. After discussing these prices with my boss we decided on 3 pizza pies.