Austin Woman Goes To Restaurant In New Orleans, Orders A Slice Of Cake To-Go. Then She Finds Out How Much It Is: ‘In This Economy?’

Sometimes nothing slaps harder than a late-night slice of cake, eaten in the pristine privacy of a hotel room. That’s the experience one woman was hoping to have on a recent New Orleans business trip.

However, things didn’t exactly end on a sweet note for Caroline (@caroline.in.the.city) when she ordered a slice of cake from Chophouse New Orleans. Under in-video text that reads, “Sir…a $38 slice of cake in this economy,” Caroline tells her story of a dessert gone wild. The TikTok has been viewed 315,800 times as of this writing.

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“Tonight I went to a restaurant that I frequent, and I sat at the bar and had my meal,” she says.

Then the bartender, Bruce, asked if she’d like to see a dessert menu. She was already passingly familiar with the options and not really in the mood for the key lime pie or cheesecake. So she asked what else he had…

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