 Despite the menu prices for the restaurant food being remarkably low, how were Harvey and Joe met with an outrageous bill of 328 buckos?
"Friend," said Harvey, taking out a wallet and counting off eight five-bucko bills, "here is your money. "On account of the quantity, I'm able to quote a bargain price. "Just the same," Joe griped, "paying for water isn't something you can get used to in ten minutes." The figure, 750, with the bucko sign in front of it, was still doing acrobatics inside his skull and keeping a faint suspicion alive in him. "For you, since you have taken us in so hospitably, a mere five hundred buckos." The final price, however, was four hundred and sixty-nine buckos and fifty redsents.
 They were charged for services and entertainment.
 They were charged for an insane amount of overhead.  They were charged for services and entertainment.  They didn't notice the additional zeros added on to the prices of the menu items  They were not informed of the tax charged onto the meal.