I like this photo that accompanies today's New York Times article about how accommodating NYC restaurants have become in the current economic downturn.
At the avant-garde restaurant wd-50, on the Lower East Side, anyone who orders a 12-course $140 tasting menu can get any bottle of wine on the restaurant’s excellent list for half price. The promotion, begun in December, was initially supposed to last three months. Now it has no definite end date.
Read more here.