That way, parents are forced to buy twice the amount of overpriced food than they would have anyway.

It's easy to eat mediocre, overpriced food in Rome, a city where tourists - and the restaurants geared towards them - are thick on the ground.

State restaurants, for example, tend to offer cold, overpriced food served by rude waiters.

(Translation: cold, breathtakingly overpriced food arrives in just 75 minutes, instead of an hour and a quarter.)

"Highly overpriced food," he muttered, handing me a receipt.

"We like the bland overpriced food," she explained, about to order the Oriental chicken salad for $10.99.

The overpriced food is OK but nothing special.

It's a shame that the pallid, overpriced food reduces it to a tourist trap.

The Jubilee was also a chain pub: all fruit machines, theme nights, trivia and overpriced food.

As a result, consumer advocates say, residents must make do with poorly stocked stores offering low-quality, overpriced food.