Cafe 1505 — Restaurant in Mequon

Don't fall for the "Egg Scam of 2025" from this place. The Big 1505 is 12 bucks on the menu. But of course when you go to pay for it, its $13.50. Didn't you see the little sign on the way in that says "eggs, blah blah, expensive, local, arbitrary increase to your egg dishes"... No? Well too bad, they will take an extra 15% extra from the whole table, if they all order breakfast items, at breakfast. Without saying a word or bothering to include a simple flyer in the menu. On top of that the wiskey chai drink is more than ELEVEN DOLLARS. $11+! For a chai concentrate and a splash of booze with a tablespoon of milk. lol. Seriously. I can get past the two hours we were there including the wait and the time it took to get our foor... But ripping people off, blindly, without a word, feels like it should be illegal. Of course the waitress knows nothing, had to ask a manager. 1$ extra PER EGG, just added to your bill. Unless of course your dish has two eggs. Then its only a dollar fifty extra. Three eggs? Well, you guessed it, 2$ extra... just extra, not a word spoken on it. Yep, there is in fact a little sign when you walk in. Are we all really supposed to believe wholesale eggs are A DOLLAR MORE PER EGG now? Cmon. This is an "egg hysteria" markup rip off that they are too embarassed about to even say it to your face.

Go anywhere else.

Yep. Perfect response from the sort of pompous vibe this whole place has. Right now (2/22/2025) as a business owner, I can get FIVE DOZEN eggs from Costco business for 13.99. So let me “educate you” or anyone else. That comes out to less than 25 cents per egg. I have to assume eggs cost something prior to 2/11/2025… but somehow, now after all this hysteria about eggs, they cost this one business only, A DOLLAR MORE per egg. A dollar! lol. Cmon. Educate yourself on what a scam is. This. This is a scam. You’re misleading people about what an egg costs, and for some reason not willing to change the price on the menu to reflect that. Yep, you bet. I’ll eat my dog before I go back. I don’t care about how any owner feels about anything. I care about being charged what the menu says I should be charged. Pretty basic stuff here. Apparently this place was paying 2 dollars per egg before. And now, with the 53% increase, they are passing the extra dollar that egg costs on us. Seems totally legit! And to be fair, the people that made us go here said they only get lunch usually. So maybe that’s better? But also, take 10 steps in either direction past the egg cost signs, and you’ll see a bunch that tell you how to parent or otherwise behave. Again, anything inside the actual menu, you know, the thing people use to choose what to buy based off at least in part, the price… anything in there that tells me it costs more, fine. Without that, it’s misleading at best. I’d contend it’s against Wisconsin State Laws to post a price for an item and then charge someone more than that price.

Apparently google doesn’t allow me to disprove how ignorant I am by citing state law and linking to it. So google Wisconsin Statute 98, look for the simple to read pdf that clearly says it’s illegal to charge someone anything other “than the lowest published price”. Surprised this restaurant seems to want to break the law over just telling the costumers they care about so much, what the prices...

I wanted so badly to love this cafe. I gave it four tries before pulling the plug. I want to preface this review by saying that the main reason why I'm giving this place such a low rating is because of the small acts of microaggression that I do feel were racially centered. Basically, my family and I did not feel welcomed. The first time I went in, I was with my two sisters for my littlest sister's 10th birthday. We waited for quite a while even though there was no line or anything. People who came in after us were seated pretty quickly. No one asked us if we needed help or needed to be seated. I had to go out of my way to talk to someone at the front to ask to be seated. There was no, "Hello, how can I help you?" or "How many?" But, of course, the people at the front asked everyone else who was NOT an ethnic minority if they needed help. After being seated, our waitress was fine. Nothing out of the ordinary. We left that day thinking it was a fluke. Maybe the staff truly just was busy and couldn't ask us if we needed help. Maybe we weren't dressed like we were going to brunch? The second time went okay, but again, we did not feel welcomed by the front desk nor the other customers there. Third time, I had to deal with the white customers being asked if they needed help while I stood there politely with my friend, who was also an ethnic minority. We patiently waited until WE had to initiate. The fourth time was just a month ago. This time, I made a reservation and went straight up to the desk. Once again, I don't think they took me seriously. It was as if she was shocked?The unwelcoming atmosphere for people of color/ethnic minorities here is unacceptable in 2019. I understand Mequon has a rather low population of people of color, but the ignorance and prejudice is disgusting. I felt like I was stereotyped the second I stepped through the door. No matter how bad or good the food may have been, people of color (black, yellow, brown, purple, green, etc), beware and go...

Ordered a southwest chicken burrito for lunch. Paid $17. It was one of the worst burritos I have ever had. The tortilla was hard, and the burrito was 90% cheese. I’ve attached a picture. For $17 - I got about 6 bites.

Monday August 1, 2022:

Update AFTER restaurant response:

I do appreciate the response. However, I do question the truthfulness of the response posted. I hope that in addition to the unintentional poor quality of the food, it was also unintentional you may have also mixed up the customer tickets in your timeline. Please note:

Contrary to what the owner stated, I did not pre order “around 8:45-9am to be picked up around 11:30am”. While it is true I picked up the order at 12:56pm, my wife called and placed the order at 12:26pm. This was our first and only contact with the restaurant to order. I’ve attached the call log to show.

Therefore, it is A) IMPOSSIBLE that the order was prepped at 11:25am, an hour before my wife even ordered; and B) from the time of placing the order to final pick up, it was a total of 30 minutes, and assuming 20 minutes of prep time, That leaves my food sitting for about 10 minutes, NOT 91 MINUTES.

Additionally, the point of google reviews is to leave an honest review as to the quality of the product and service. I did that.

Again- I hope your extremely inaccurate timeline was merely an honest mistake, rather than to intentionally deceive your customers to look...