Do you know what MKT means?
Not knowing what those initials mean could end up costing you, especially as beef prices are on the rise and tariffs are impacting prices of food, groceries and goods. Like it did for Aribella Menold.
"POV: you didn't know what 'mkt' meant on steak menu and now (you're) paying for it," the text on the TikTok video from Menold reads.
In a video on Instagram with 21.8 million views and the same video on Tiktok with 3.6 million views, you can see the reaction of three young women when the bill came. Their order had included two steaks, which each cost $52, a kid's grilled cheese sandwich for $10 and a baby kale Caesar salad for $28. A credit card surcharge of 3% was also added. With sales tax, the bill totaled $159.14.
Menold, 20, told USA TODAY she and two young relatives were out to dinner at a separate table from other family members while on vacation in North Carolina. At most, she said she thought the MKT price steak would be "around 20 bucks. I'm pretty sure we just read the menu wrong but come from a big family so we never go out to fancy restaurants (too) often."
