Dining out at a fancy restaurant is surely a pleasant experience for many. While some go for the delicious food, others enjoy the service, presentation and overall vibe. However, there is always a section of people who cannot help but discuss the inflated prices of basic dishes at upscale restaurants. Recently, a woman visited one of the restaurants by Virat Kohli and shared her experience on X (formerly Twitter). She posted a picture of bhutta (corn on the cob). The snap featured a few slices of corn plated with a dollop of dipping sauce and garnished with scallions.
In her caption, she highlighted the dish’s staggering price. She said, “Paid ₹525 for this today at One8 Commune,” accompanied by a crying emoji.
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Well, the post didn’t sit well with the people online. Several X users reacted to the woman’s post. Check out some of the reactions below:
A person wrote, “You didn’t pay for this. You paid for the vibes.”
You didn’t pay for this. You paid for the vibes ????— Wojak (@wojakcodes) January 11, 2025
Another said, “Money is ambience, service & cleanliness. That comfy chair, good-looking rich people around, nice crockeries. Get the same thing in thela for 30Rs. The choice is yours.”
Money is Ambience, Service & Cleanliness . That comfy chair, good looking rich ppl around, nice crockeries. Isn’t it ?
Get the same thing in Thela for 30Rs.
Choice is Urs.— Samiran Ghosh (@samiranghosh87) January 12, 2025
Echoing a similar sentiment, a user said, “Well, usually, they charge for the ambience. Food is anyway basic. But the ambience makes it better.”
Well, usually, they charge for the ambience. Food is anyway basic. But the ambience makes it better.— Vivek Naskar (@vivek_naskar) January 12, 2025
A few pointed out “You knew this before ordering, so stop crying.”
You knew this before ordering, so stop crying— Veena Jain (@DrJain21) January 12, 2025
“Behen, bahar se butta kha leti 20 ka ataa. [Sister, you could’ve just eaten corn from outside for 20 bucks.],” said another.
Behen bahar se butta kha leti 20 ka ataa— Isha Goyal (@ishaaagoyal) January 13, 2025
Meanwhile, a section on social media backed the woman and called the dish “expensive.”
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Itnaaa mehngaaaa baapreeee— Matilda (@mansebanjaran) January 13, 2025
A user wrote, “Itnaaa mehngaaaa baapreeee. [So expensive, oh my God!]”
Itnaaa mehngaaaa baapreeee— Matilda (@mansebanjaran) January 13, 2025
“Isse acha chole bhature kha lete [You should have eaten chole bhature instead],” wrote a user.
Isse acha chole bhature kha lete ????— Ankit (@terakyalenadena) January 12, 2025
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Hi. I’m Tamaan K. Osbourne-Roberts, family physician and lifestyle medicine physician, and this is “4 Simple Hacks to Get Paid for Lifestyle Medicine.”
As primary care doctors, lifestyle medicine is supposed to be a pillar of our practice. Per the evidence, lifestyle medicine can prevent up to 80% of chronic disease.It’s a real irony, then, that it’s the thing we’re least likely to be paid to do.
Thankfully, though, there are a few hacks to help you keep your patients healthy and yourself financially healthy at the same time.
Number one: Be as accurate in your coding as possible. We all know working on things like sleep, exercise, and diet with patients takes time, so bill for it.With time-based billing, in particular, you can account for both the time spent in face-to-face encounters and the time spent afterward on documentation and care coordination. Make sure to capture that.
Number two: Try group visits on for size.Group visit models are great for lifestyle medicine. They give you the flexibility to include longer conversations and deeper lessons on a range of subjects while still getting paid for what you do. Want to host a cooking class? Group visit. Want to bring in a personal trainer or hold a dance class or exercise dance class? Group visit. Meditation, yoga, or even a sleep hygiene class? Group visit.
While there are a few tricks to getting paid for group visits, they’re the same things, such as documenting time and the various parts of the visit, that are key to getting paid for regular visits. They have the bonus of fighting burnout and making your own practice more meaningful as well.
Number three: Think about joining a value-based care arrangement. While only accounting for 10% of the market right now, value-based care (VBC) is growing rapidly, and it’s easy to see why. By trading quality for the hamster wheel of billing widgets, physicians are freed up to think more about how best to take care of patients, including incorporating more lifestyle medicine. Some VBC models even have their own electronic medical records, freeing you from outdated structures when it comes to documenting patient visits.
Number four: direct primary care.Direct primary care cuts out the middlemen of payers, letting patients pay physician practices directly for their own care. Like VBC, it opens up possibilities for practicing better medicine, including lifestyle medicine. In addition, it’s often very affordable, with a family of four often paying around $80 a month for a membership for the entire family. It’s a win-win for the doctor and the patient.
Lifestyle medicine is a great way to improve both your patients’ and your own well-being. With a few flexes, it can improve your wallet’s well-being, too.
The president and chairman of the 2028 Games in Los Angeles, Casey Wasserman, raved about the “Top Gun” star’s participation during the CNBC x Boardroom: Game Plan panel at the Fairmont Miramar hotel in Santa Monica, Calif., on Tuesday.
“He finished filming ‘Mission: Impossible’ at 6 p.m. in London, got right on a plane. He landed in LA at 4 a.m. and filmed the scene where he pulls onto a military plane,” the entertainment executive said, per the Hollywood Reporter.
Tom Cruise did not get a paycheck for his epic stunt to close out the Paris Olympics on Aug. 11. POOL/AFP via Getty ImagesThe “Mission: Impossible” star passed the torch to Los Angeles for the next Summer Games. Getty ImagesHe held the official Olympic flag. Getty Images
Wasserman raved that “every step of the way, [Cruise] got more involved and more engaged” and ultimately did the pretaped stunt for free.
“We’re like, ‘Well, there’s no way we’re getting this. We’re going to get four hours of filming time. We’ll do the thing … with the Hollywood sign, he’ll hand the thing off and he’s done. Maybe we’ll get the other stuff, and the rest will be just a stunt double.’ About five minutes into the presentation, [Cruise] goes, ‘I’m in. But I’m only doing it if I get to do everything,’” he recalled.
The actor, 62, stunned viewers on Aug. 11 when he closed out the Paris Olympics and handed the torch to LA, where the next Summer Games will be held.
Cruise pulled off the stunt to signify the transfer of the games to LA in 2028. Getty ImagesHe even skydived to the famous Hollywood sign. AP
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Cruise launched himself from the top of Stade de France and landed on the field, where he grabbed the Olympic flag.
He then took the flag from LA Mayor Karen Bass and Olympic gymnast Simone Biles and rode off into the streets of Paris before getting on a plane near the Eiffel Tower.
The video later showed the movie star flying the symbolic flag to California and skydiving to the iconic Hollywood sign before adding the famous five colored Olympic rings to it.
The “Top Gun” star reportedly contacted the Olympic committee to get involved. Abaca Press/INSTARimagesCruise, pictured here on Aug. 10 in Paris, also watched some of the Olympics. Getty Images
“Thank you, Paris! Now off to LA,” he posted on X at the time.
Cruise has yet to publicly discuss his preparations for the death-defying stunt.
However, TMZ reported that he was the one who had approached the committee and expressed interest in getting involved in the closing ceremony.
Cruise was seen spending time with Lady Gaga, pictured here, at the games over the summer. AbacaPress / SplashNews.comHe previously raved about the “incredible” athletes. Getty Images
The Oscar nominee was previously seen attending one of the women’s gymnastics matches in July.
“It’s awesome,” he told Reuters at the time. “Great stories, great athletes. It’s incredible what they have to do, the sense of accomplishment.”
Cruise was among several A-listers — including Ariana Grande and Lady Gaga — who flew to the City of Love to watch America take home the most medals.
Mike Tirico is seen on the set of NBCUniversal Paris 2024 Olympics coverage on August 04, 2024 in Paris, France.
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Comcast’s NBCUniversal has a longstanding bet on the Olympics, but this summer the company threw all of its resources at the Games in a bid to grab more viewership — especially for its growing streaming platform, Peacock.
It appears to have paid off so far — more than 30 million people tuned in to NBC’s TV and streaming platforms to watch the games, and a record $1.2 billion in advertising revenue was generated.
NBC executives, having touted the Olympics as a growth driver and differentiator in the increasingly crowded landscape of streaming and live sports, are now looking to extend the benefit beyond the Games and into future live sports.
“We completely changed the game plan internally. We ripped up the playbook two years ago,” said Jenny Storms, chief marketing officer of entertainment and sports at NBCUniversal. “It was very scary at the time to take the institutional knowledge that we had for so long and rip it up and start over. We really started new and fresh in totality, from production to company wide counterparts.”
The Olympics have long been key to NBCUniversal. Paris marked the 18th Olympic Games broadcast by NBC in the U.S. The company renewed the rights in 2014, agreeing to pay $7.65 billion for the Games between 2022 and 2032, amounting to more than $1.2 billion for each.
Just before Paris, efforts had fallen flat. The 2021 Tokyo Olympics and 2022 Beijing Olympics drew the lowest-ever audiences for Summer and Winter Games, respectively.
Storms noted there were factors at play in those last two Olympic Games that were largely out of NBCUniversal’s control.
Both of the Games were shrouded by the early stage of the pandemic. Tokyo was postponed by a year, and fans and families weren’t present at either games. The time zone difference from Asia worked against the U.S. broadcast, too.
But notably the strategy for Peacock during those Games appeared to be the biggest misstep. In Tokyo, very few events were available to stream live on Peacock. In Beijing, the live content was there, but fans had trouble finding what they wanted to watch.
“We made a claim that Peacock would be the home of the Olympics, and we didn’t exactly deliver,” said Mark Lazarus, chairman of NBCUniversal Media Group. “We were nervous about how much content to put on there, how to program it and how to cross-deliver it [with traditional TV]. And we were rightly told by the fanbase that we didn’t deliver what we said we would.”
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Snoop Dogg is interviewed at the beach volleyball event on day five of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games at Eiffel Tower Stadium in Paris on July 31, 2024.
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Executives across the company have credited Paris as a part of the success of this year’s Olympics, between the eye-catching scenery — with the Opening Ceremony on the Seine River and beach volleyball played in front of the Eiffel Tower, to name a couple — and favorable time zone working in NBC’s favor.
The company also began marketing the Olympics much earlier this time around, employing various parts of NBCUniversal to get the word out, from news programs and talk shows, to various forms of advertising, Storms said.
Both Storms and Lazarus also noted the success of airing the Olympic trials in the weeks before the games.
“We never really pushed hard with the trials before,” Storms said. “But it was the most streamed trials ever, and it was important to warm America up.”
And then there was the star factor of NBCUniversal’s internal roster.
(L-R) Comedian and host Jimmy Fallon and Sha’Carri Richardson, American track and field athlete attend the Men’s Gold Medal game between Team France and Team United States on day fifteen of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at Bercy Arena on August 10, 2024 in Paris, France.
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The company used its own talent more strategically in 2024, executives said. Besides airing promos for content, NBC A-listers were integrated into the events themselves, co-hosting and reporting from the sidelines. Fan favorite Snoop Dogg, a special correspondent for NBC Olympics, generated social media buzz and drew more eyes to the live events. And, his stand-out presence in Paris helped promote his upcoming role with NBC’s “The Voice” this fall.
“We had a great experience with Snoop, we are definitely in the Snoop business with ‘The Voice,’ and hope to be in the Snoop business in the future,” said Lazarus, adding NBCUniversal doesn’t have a commitment yet with Snoop Dogg for future Olympics.
Other NBC talent attended the Games to promote their projects, too. Mariska Hargitay, who’s played the character Olivia Benson on “Law & Order: SVU” since 1999, was in Paris promoting the show’s 26th season. A variety of “Saturday Night Live” cast members were present, including Colin Jost, who covered surfing in Tahiti and had to make an early exit due to health issues.
Shows from both NBC and Peacock were also promoted at the Games, and Universal’s upcoming film, “Wicked,” was highlighted often, with stars Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo appearing on the Opening Ceremony red carpet.
The “Wicked” actors also voiced a promotional piece for U.S. gymnastics powerhouse Simone Biles, and an exclusive clip of the film was aired during the “Today” show from Paris. NBC said among moviegoers, “‘Wicked’ gained ground across measures during the Olympics, doubling our level of top of mind awareness, and increasing total awareness,” according to polling.
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A view of bread with NBC logos and the Olympic Rings at The TODAY Show at Rockefeller Plaza on April 17, 2024 in New York City.
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Arguably no NBC property shined brighter during the Olympics than streaming platform, Peacock.
Due in large part to Peacock, 23.5 billion minutes of the Olympics were streamed, up 40% from all prior Summer and Winter Olympics combined, according to a release.
“Peacock delivered in every way that we hadn’t before,” said Lazarus.
Besides having all live coverage, exclusive shows like “Gold Zone,” hosted by Scott Hanson of “NFL Red Zone,” gave fans more options for all-day viewing. There were also features built solely for the Olympics, such as an artificial intelligence function featuring daily recaps in the voice of Al Michaels, a longtime voice of marquee NFL games.
An estimated 2.8 million consumers signed up for Peacock during the first week of the Summer Games, averaging nearly 400,000 additions daily, according to data provider Antenna. This nearly matched the sign ups driven by Peacock’s exclusive NFL Wild Card game in January, according to Antenna. The game is considered the most streamed live event in history with 27.6 million viewers, according to Nielsen.
While Comcast recently reported Peacock had 33 million paid customers as of June 30 — 500,000 less than the prior period, and widely attributed to the loss of customers exiting after the Wild Card game —analyst Craig Moffett of MoffettNathanson said it’s worth noting the customers that remained since the Wild Card game.
“I suspect they’ll have the same experience with the Olympics,” Moffett said. “Sure, some of those customers will leave but they will probably end up keeping a lot more than not.”
Still, traditional TV made up the bulk of viewership during the Paris Games — nearly 90% of viewers watched on broadcast and cable channels, Lazarus said. Aided by the more favorable time zone, NBC aired live events on TV and Peacock during the day and rebranded the evening broadcast as “Primetime in Paris,” replaying big events with sidecar programming and interviews.
The strategy used in Paris will serve as the roadmap for future Olympics — the Milan Winter Olympics in 2026 and Los Angeles Summer Games in 2028 — as well as other live sports aired on NBC’s TV networks and Peacock, executives said.
Shortly after the 2024 Olympics comes the new seasons of English Premier League soccer, American college football and National Football League. NBC will also be the rights holder of National Basketball Association games beginning in the 2025-2026 season.
“I think Peacock is getting much more sophisticated, as we’ve seen with the Olympics, in how they can do sports coverage,” said Shirin Malkani, co-chair of the sports industry group at Perkins Coie.
Disclosure: CNBC parent NBCUniversal owns NBC Sports and NBC Olympics. NBC Olympics is the U.S. broadcast rights holder to all Summer and Winter Games through 2032.
