Good lord, his own china in the restaurant

A lot of bars keep regular customers' personal mugs on the wall for them, and no one else uses them. They're just for that one customer. So if Virgil is a rich mofo and eats frequently at this one particular restaurant, it's entirely possible that they would keep a special set of personal plateware there just for him.

I didn't figure out at first that it was his personal china. For some reason the O looked more like a Q to me and I couldn't figure out why a restaurant that starts with an S had china with VQ on it.

Terriers always smell like warm, buttered toast.

It was silly, and had little to do with the film.

I doubt any restaurant does this -- even for Bill Gates or Warren Buffet.

You'd REALLY have to eat there a lot! LOL!

Also: Virgil is portrayed as crazy rich, though he says he grew up a poor orphan. So he made all his money from the auction business.

It is a lucrative business, BUT the way he's living is like a BILLIONAIRE hedge fund investor. Auction houses usually make a 10% commission on sales. It is not THAT high paying. You can't run an auction house with ONE guy doing ALL the appraisals, all the catalogs, and he's also the auctioneer at every auction! Dude is like 60-something. He'd drop dead of exhaustion. A place like Sothebys (which this is modeled on) has a huge staff with hundreds of employees. They have a dozen auctioneers. They have appraisers on retainer. They have college kids doing internships. They have secretaries and bookkeepers and security staff. Imagine the INSURANCE they need to have on all that artwork! the building to hold the auctions in!!

My point is it is a business with big profits, but VERY high costs. So while Virgil might be rich, he wouldn't be this kind of Daddy Warbucks mega-bucks rich.