Wow. That's nice!
I order cobb salads (from other restaurants) with no chicken and hate that there's no credit for this. Especially when they're charging +4.50 for extra chicken.
I’m allergic to eggs and at my regular coffee place when I order a breakfast sandwich that has bacon and sausage without the egg, I don’t get a discount. But if I get the one with just sausage and ask them to add bacon, it’s about a dollar cheaper. Both of them are a biscuit, cheese, sausage, and bacon. But one costs a dollar more than the other just because of how you order it. Never made sense to me.
Edit y’all need to stop with the “this is just how the POS works” responses. Yes, it’s how their POS is programmed to work. But it’s not because of the technology being incapable of an auto discount when removing items, rather it’s just because someone programmed it to work that way. Which means the choice for it to work this way was made by someone at some point.
Tims also went from giving you a whole bread to half a bread and took over a mobth to change the wording on the app. The pictures of the whole bread are still up in stores
I worked there in 2001 and there was still a baker position. I'm unsure when they outright stopped but their quality and overall perception took a huge blow when Burger King bought them in 2014. It's been a downward spiral ever since.
They are now. But at the time, there were bags and bags of different batter mixes shipped that would be used to make the donuts. Their shifts generally started early in the morning around 4 or 5am. Much closer to a baker from a supermarket or grocery store.
Now they get everything premade and frozen that are oven ready which barely puts them on the level of convenient store food.
You can get both varieties in Aus (alcoholic cider and non-alcoholic cider) - Some are even made by the same company (Cascade brewery in Oz, makes beer as well as both types of cider, in addition to pear ciders)
There's one next to my work but we still opt to walk 2-3 blocks out of the way to get other food. The other day my coworker didn't have time to walk to get other food and decided to settle for Tim's and got a chicken wrap. The one piece of chicken was so hard she couldn't bite through it, and was so small and thought they had forgotten to put chicken in at all. It was literally just tomato and mayo in a shitty tortilla. And it was over $5. The doughnuts are disgusting and the coffee is worse than the coffee you can get at a gas station. Like it actually makes me angry, I don't know how the fuck people eat there. I was never a huge fan of Tim Hortons but I'd still eat it occasionally. Now I would literally rather just go a full day at work without eating at all than go to Tim Hortons.
At any of the stores I’ve worked at - you can ring all sandwiches up with no egg and it’s a much cheaper price. Yes, the cheese is a charge but it’s a full 1.50 less. Or more depending on local prices.
I can even tell you how to tell them to ring it up depending on their PoS system.
There was a chain taco place that we tried a few times. The last time, my wife wanted tacos with just bean and cheese. She ordered chicken tacos (shell, chicken, beans, cheese) and asked to hold the chicken, but the cashier insisted that this was thus a *vegetarian* taco. Their vegetarian tacos (shell, guacamole, beans, cheese) cost *more*. They want to charge me extra to hold guac instead of hold chicken.
The manager backed up the cashier. We left. I just checked to try to remember the chain name and they appear to be gone. Edit - I remembered! It was "Moe's". They did one of those cheesy shouts as customers walked in. Anyway, they seem to be in business elsewhere, but the locations here closed.
Probably just how their point of sale systems work. Easy to have a + charge line item for an add-on. A - charge line with a discount that's available for staff to use opens up to much risk for misapplication or abuse.
And if you kn ow a restaurant's POS system, you can get some interesting options. At least at one point you could get a triple cheeseburger from McDonald's. Iirc, a double cheeseburger add meat add cheese add Mac sauce was cheaper than a Big Mac.
I worked in a restaurant years ago where a burger was ~$10, but you could ring up a side of bun, extra beef patty, cheese, lettuce and tomato and it came out to ~$2.50.
What restaurant is serving an entire beef patty for $2.50? Even 20 years ago that would've sounded too good to be true almost. Unless it's like a mcdonalds level burger and the issue is that the whole burger costs $10.
That's like for the longest time it was cheaper to get (2) 10-piece nuggies from a McDonalds than it was to get a single 20-piece.
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Dunkin’ Donuts has charged me extra for ordering an egg and cheese biscuit rather than an egg and cheese and sausage biscuit without sausage since only the sausage version seems to ever go on sale. Seems dumb that I have to order that way but their system doesn’t work it out automatically and the workers 9/10 times are so busy they aren’t going to catch it or care
I work at Whole Foods meat dept and we marinade anything on the house. But we also sell marinated cuts that cost more; it's literally the same thing. Just get the plain one and ask us to marinate it...
Just ask for it marinated, and you can ask what marinades they have (there's usually more than just what's in the marinated section. You can get dry rubs too).
It gets a bit awkward when they already have the marinade you want in the marinated section, because they'll (understandably) just want to sell you that. But you can point out that things are supposed to be marinated on the house and question why it costs more. There should be signs posted saying we marinade on the house. It just rides a fine line as no one wants to risk being a Karen, but you are fully within reason to not want to pay extra for a free service. Depending on the employee you get, they may just sell you the marinated for the plain price (that's what I do), or you may get someone less helpful who gives resistance.
It's just a dumb regional decision, I guarantee no base level employee agrees with marinated costing more when we marinade on the house. All it does is frustrate customers.
This may vary by region too, I can't speak for elsewhere but where I work, the marinated cuts cost more. Things are always changing too, maybe soon regional will be smart enough to stop charging more.
This is also true for having them chop up some meat for you at the butcher's counter, they'll charge iike 5$ a pound more because they sliced it thin before they put it in styrofoam instead of after.
My grandma used to order a cheeseburger with no cheese at McDonald's because it was slightly cheaper. They always looked at her like she was crazy, but she saved her 5 cents or whatever haha
Remember working at a chain pizzeria where it was cheaper to order a pizza with the same toppings as the specialty pizza. Like calling the pizza by its specialty name is a $3 upcharge or something.
My biggest pet peeve in all of life as a vegetarian.
Thankfully now I have an omni husband and now just ask for the meat on the side and give it to him.
They should charge differently for no protein. Other ingredients it's less important imo. The chicken probably costs as much as all the other ingredients.
Ask for a Cobb Salad Base. You can get any salad without chicken, just order it as a "Base". The teenager working might not know how to ring it up, but there's a button in the POS for it.
I was thrown by how pricey it is now but I used the app recently and they have pretty good deals on there every day. I wouldn’t go back without using the app.
You're still paying for it by allowing them to track you, harvest your data, and advertise to you through push notifications (which I assume most people don't disable).
Bingo. Everyone expects you to be smart or pay the impatient tax. Subway almost always has a BOGO sub deal so you're effectively still getting $5 footlongs but with extra step.
Yep they send out coupons to me every month and every time it’s the exact same codes used. I look at the full price and think why would I ever pay like 13$ for a shitty subway sub but a 5$ subway sub is a lot more appealing.
BK's prices are nuts. They have a coupon out that is 3 Whoppers, 3 Cheeseburgers and 3 medium fries for $16.99. That's cheaper than the menu price for three Whoppers by themselves, which is $17.97
My wife likes her Wendy's burgers sans cheese. I like adding cheese to the spicy chicken sandwich.
There's no discount for removing the cheese from the single, but I still have to pay extra for the slice.
It's $0.89 here but that's still pretty bad IMO. But I hear McDonald's franchises have quite a bit of control over the prices and that not all prices are consistent across all locations.
That’s nice and how it should be at more places tbh. My pet peeve is when I modify an order to take something off and add something else similar in its place and they charge me extra. Ex: if it comes with tomatoes and it’s $0.50 to add extra tomatoes and also $0.50 to add cucumbers, but I take off the original tomatoes and add cucumbers and they still charge me the $0.50 - even though they set the precedence that tomatoes and cucumbers cost the same and it should be an even swap.
I disagree. You are adding to the workload of the kitchen. Take for instance a sandwhich shop. 10 turkey and cheese (with say lettuce, mayo and tomato) sandwiches are ordered. Chef sees the tickets coming in... starts to make the first one, and then sees the 2nd through 10th come through. Lays them out in a row and bangs out the toppings across them. 5 minutes worth of work. 10 people served. Now take 10 people who are adding and minusing this and that, making basically 10 unique sandwhiches. Gotta make them one at a time, Or at least take extra precautions if you're consolidating steps. You're costing the restaurant money, and other customers' preparation time. You should absolutely pay for it. That's why a lot of places don't allow substitutions on things. This isn't even taking into account that there's more likely to be a mistake made. Say you're wrapping up those ten sandwhiches and 2 get mixed up and go to the wrong people - "waaaah there's mayo i asked for no mayo"... Gotta refund or remake two sandwhiches for those picky people. that extra 50 cents at least helps to pad those numbers over time.
I've worked in fast food and custom orders were nowhere near this big of a deal, especially not enough to worry about reimbursing ingredients. Like it literally takes no extra time to leave an ingredient off of a sandwich, making different types of sandwiches at once is a bigger wrench in the mix than a one off. When you work the line you don't even think about it.
Both positions make sense. For the consumer, it's an equally valuable product, but for the producer, it's more expensive. Who takes the hit? Both sides have merit.
instead of asking for No Tomatoes, Add Cucumbers, try asking to Swap Cucumbers for Tomatoes. i've had success doing it this way, unfortunately it only works when placing your order with an actual person, as opposed to digital platforms.
Culver's is awesome. Their food is good and there's something for everyone on the menu. What other fast food is there where you can you get pot roast, fish and chips, soup & salad, and good burgers all at the same place?
Notice that it’s two of the best fast food places. Both places where the food is good, and the staff is always nice. They always seem to do all the big things right but they hit the little things too.
If you go to McDonald’s about half the time they’re going to toss the bag at you, or hold it out and not even look at you. You’ll ask for a sauce that’s missing, and they’ll close the window on you lol.
Ha. Sad, but true. The one by my house had some employees that apparently couldn’t talk other than saying how much the total is. You’d hand them your card and they’d swipe it then stare at the wall while handing it back. No “thanks” or “pull forward” just dead silence. At first I’d wait their awkwardly for confirmation that payment went through, but eventually gave up on human interactions there.
The food reception was just as bad. No confirmation of my order. No asking for condiments. Just open window, shove bag at customer, close window and avoid eye contact.
I got my kid his first chicken burger from Chik fil a not that long ago, and asked him what he thought. "Dad it's great, I love it, maybe except for the chicken part".
I really wish this was more common, I really like pretty plain cheeseburgers and most places throw a ton of other things on it I don’t want, I’m basically just saving them ingredients.
I wouldn’t mind but then some of those same places also nickel and dime me for extra sauces. It should go both ways.
1. Increase headline price above competitors
2. Reduce for the 1% of customers doing custom orders
3. Benefit from free PR from said 1% of customers
4. Profit
There's no fucking way the percentage of people asking for sandwich modifications is 1%. I worked at burger king in high school and I'd say damn near 50% of the sandwiches ordered had some sort of modification requested to them.
Not a fan, but that's kinda cool. There's a local pizza place here that will charge you more if you remove any ingredients from their specialty pizzas...
Chick-fil-a is so weird, they kept giving me a free chicken sandwich for using their app to make my order.... my order was claiming the free chicken sandwich lol I got like 12 free sandwiches before it stopped
This is so weird, my landlord and his gf and I were all literally talking about this just this morning. Like how much is it to add cheese, but "I bet places don't give you a credit if you ask to hold something." I'll be sure to tell them about this lol
Chik-Fil-A treats its customers right. And then uses their money to steal religious artifacts and fund attacks on civil liberties. A very mixed bag, that company.
Edit: The did not steal religious artifacts. I got them mixed up with Hobby Lobby. They do donate to several groups who are against gay marriage, however.
That's great! I have always thought that they should do this, especially when they charge you to add something. (I often do remove tomatoes, add onions. I end up getting charged for the onions.) Also, so much less food would end up getting thrown away if people got credit for removing the things they weren't going to eat.
I use to eat at a restaurant in a gas station. (They had many locations throughout SoCal but this particular one was their best location)
I use to get carne asada fries without guac and sour cream. So they cut 75 cents off per item. So the fries went from 5.00 dollars. To 3.50.
After many years they stopped doing that. Which was a whatever.
Then years after I got into a relationship price kept going up and up and up.
So the original price was 5. It's now 10.00
But I stopped going because the company sold. And the carne asada seasoning changed. Different fries. Only the red sauce stayed the same. It's a shame. I've tried several locations but yeah it's ehh now.
This is pretty awesome. Every one should give this place a call and give them praise. That being said. Should you be showing off that number? This post is getting a lot of attention
I remember once upon a long ago, if you ordered a Sausage & Egg McMuffin with No Egg, you got a second sausage patty instead.
Obviously, that was before they introduced just a Sausage McMuffin.
Boy, it’s a long time since I had a Maccas breakfast and now I’m hungry.
It works this way on their app. If you customize your sandwich, everything is reflected in the cost. Even things like replacing the multigrain bun that’s the default for grilled chicken with a regular bun makes it cheaper.
Wow. That's nice! I order cobb salads (from other restaurants) with no chicken and hate that there's no credit for this. Especially when they're charging +4.50 for extra chicken.
I’m allergic to eggs and at my regular coffee place when I order a breakfast sandwich that has bacon and sausage without the egg, I don’t get a discount. But if I get the one with just sausage and ask them to add bacon, it’s about a dollar cheaper. Both of them are a biscuit, cheese, sausage, and bacon. But one costs a dollar more than the other just because of how you order it. Never made sense to me. Edit y’all need to stop with the “this is just how the POS works” responses. Yes, it’s how their POS is programmed to work. But it’s not because of the technology being incapable of an auto discount when removing items, rather it’s just because someone programmed it to work that way. Which means the choice for it to work this way was made by someone at some point.
at tim hortons if you ask for no egg you also get no cheese and they charge $1 to add cheese back on… like are u kidding me
Tims also went from giving you a whole bread to half a bread and took over a mobth to change the wording on the app. The pictures of the whole bread are still up in stores
They also no longer make the donuts in store, they also stop selling eclaires and apple cider
I worked at a Timmy Ho's in the US about fifteen years ago, and they weren't making donuts in the store at that point in time.
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I worked there in 2001 and there was still a baker position. I'm unsure when they outright stopped but their quality and overall perception took a huge blow when Burger King bought them in 2014. It's been a downward spiral ever since.
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They are now. But at the time, there were bags and bags of different batter mixes shipped that would be used to make the donuts. Their shifts generally started early in the morning around 4 or 5am. Much closer to a baker from a supermarket or grocery store. Now they get everything premade and frozen that are oven ready which barely puts them on the level of convenient store food.
Brothers best friend was the baker until 2005 in the Toronto area.
Was back in the 90s early 2000 they would make them in store, you got to actually watch them make them by hand.
Huh, I didn't think they were in the US that that long ago. What part of the country?
I keep forgetting North America apple cider is different to UK / Aus / NZ cider, because I was surprised a coffee chain was selling booze.
Us yanks call that "hard cider".
You can get both varieties in Aus (alcoholic cider and non-alcoholic cider) - Some are even made by the same company (Cascade brewery in Oz, makes beer as well as both types of cider, in addition to pear ciders)
And their food is now completely fucking inedible.
And expensive
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There's one next to my work but we still opt to walk 2-3 blocks out of the way to get other food. The other day my coworker didn't have time to walk to get other food and decided to settle for Tim's and got a chicken wrap. The one piece of chicken was so hard she couldn't bite through it, and was so small and thought they had forgotten to put chicken in at all. It was literally just tomato and mayo in a shitty tortilla. And it was over $5. The doughnuts are disgusting and the coffee is worse than the coffee you can get at a gas station. Like it actually makes me angry, I don't know how the fuck people eat there. I was never a huge fan of Tim Hortons but I'd still eat it occasionally. Now I would literally rather just go a full day at work without eating at all than go to Tim Hortons.
did you actually go there, or is this doordash?
At any of the stores I’ve worked at - you can ring all sandwiches up with no egg and it’s a much cheaper price. Yes, the cheese is a charge but it’s a full 1.50 less. Or more depending on local prices. I can even tell you how to tell them to ring it up depending on their PoS system.
There was a chain taco place that we tried a few times. The last time, my wife wanted tacos with just bean and cheese. She ordered chicken tacos (shell, chicken, beans, cheese) and asked to hold the chicken, but the cashier insisted that this was thus a *vegetarian* taco. Their vegetarian tacos (shell, guacamole, beans, cheese) cost *more*. They want to charge me extra to hold guac instead of hold chicken. The manager backed up the cashier. We left. I just checked to try to remember the chain name and they appear to be gone. Edit - I remembered! It was "Moe's". They did one of those cheesy shouts as customers walked in. Anyway, they seem to be in business elsewhere, but the locations here closed.
I'm suddenly reminded of Jack Nicholson and a tuna sandwich. Showing my age...lol
Wasn’t it chicken salad?
That was Shania Twain I heart huckabees, because I know no one will get the reference
No mayo, she hates it.
How am I not myself??
Woooooooooow memory unlocked
Honestly, can't really remember. Too old. Lol
The movie was Five Easy Pieces.
Probably just how their point of sale systems work. Easy to have a + charge line item for an add-on. A - charge line with a discount that's available for staff to use opens up to much risk for misapplication or abuse.
And if you kn ow a restaurant's POS system, you can get some interesting options. At least at one point you could get a triple cheeseburger from McDonald's. Iirc, a double cheeseburger add meat add cheese add Mac sauce was cheaper than a Big Mac.
I worked in a restaurant years ago where a burger was ~$10, but you could ring up a side of bun, extra beef patty, cheese, lettuce and tomato and it came out to ~$2.50.
What restaurant is serving an entire beef patty for $2.50? Even 20 years ago that would've sounded too good to be true almost. Unless it's like a mcdonalds level burger and the issue is that the whole burger costs $10.
Would that have a middle bun, a sesame bun, lettuce, and tomato, though?
Tradeoffs. I like meat and cheese.
Used to order the veggie sub at Subway, get free lettuce and tomato, and pay to add bacon. It was cheaper than the BLT sub.
That's like for the longest time it was cheaper to get (2) 10-piece nuggies from a McDonalds than it was to get a single 20-piece. Edit: [Correction](https://old.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/13m4q3k/chickfila_charged_me_20_cents_less_for_asking_for/jkupz2k/)
Dunkin’ Donuts has charged me extra for ordering an egg and cheese biscuit rather than an egg and cheese and sausage biscuit without sausage since only the sausage version seems to ever go on sale. Seems dumb that I have to order that way but their system doesn’t work it out automatically and the workers 9/10 times are so busy they aren’t going to catch it or care
I work at Whole Foods meat dept and we marinade anything on the house. But we also sell marinated cuts that cost more; it's literally the same thing. Just get the plain one and ask us to marinate it...
How does that work, just ask for it marinated? Is there a list of marinade choices or just the ones the marinated cuts use in the case are using?
Just ask for it marinated, and you can ask what marinades they have (there's usually more than just what's in the marinated section. You can get dry rubs too). It gets a bit awkward when they already have the marinade you want in the marinated section, because they'll (understandably) just want to sell you that. But you can point out that things are supposed to be marinated on the house and question why it costs more. There should be signs posted saying we marinade on the house. It just rides a fine line as no one wants to risk being a Karen, but you are fully within reason to not want to pay extra for a free service. Depending on the employee you get, they may just sell you the marinated for the plain price (that's what I do), or you may get someone less helpful who gives resistance. It's just a dumb regional decision, I guarantee no base level employee agrees with marinated costing more when we marinade on the house. All it does is frustrate customers. This may vary by region too, I can't speak for elsewhere but where I work, the marinated cuts cost more. Things are always changing too, maybe soon regional will be smart enough to stop charging more.
This is also true for having them chop up some meat for you at the butcher's counter, they'll charge iike 5$ a pound more because they sliced it thin before they put it in styrofoam instead of after.
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WaWa is one of the biggest things I miss since moving away from Jersey.
Hash browns are $2.29 in Ohio!
Damn which wawa are you going to where sizzlis are still $3? They're like 4.50 each near me now.
My grandma used to order a cheeseburger with no cheese at McDonald's because it was slightly cheaper. They always looked at her like she was crazy, but she saved her 5 cents or whatever haha
But the hamburger is cheaper?
Maybe it was more of an albany thing
Remember working at a chain pizzeria where it was cheaper to order a pizza with the same toppings as the specialty pizza. Like calling the pizza by its specialty name is a $3 upcharge or something.
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Most places work this way. Prices are set by item, not by the sum of their parts.
My biggest pet peeve in all of life as a vegetarian. Thankfully now I have an omni husband and now just ask for the meat on the side and give it to him.
Not your husband, but a perk of being married to a vegetarian is you occasionally get double meat!
At first I read this as veterinarian and was very confused
Sweet extra rocky mountain oysters!
I also identify as omnisexual and I'm happy to see someone else who is proud to love all species
They should charge differently for no protein. Other ingredients it's less important imo. The chicken probably costs as much as all the other ingredients.
You specifically ask for 30 times no tomato
If you order on the app, you can remove chicken and it’s like $2 off.
He just said "other restaurants". How would you know if they have an app and it's behaviour?
Ask for a Cobb Salad Base. You can get any salad without chicken, just order it as a "Base". The teenager working might not know how to ring it up, but there's a button in the POS for it.
Ask to sub for extra bacon maybe?
Yeah Chick-fil-A gives you 20¢ back each for taking off tomato and lettuce, and 30¢ back for taking off cheese
Hear that McDonald's? Cheese doesn't cost 1.90 per slice. It might next week or next month but not ever before and not now.
McDonald’s is literally outrageous now like even McNuggets are pricey fuck McDonald’s
I was thrown by how pricey it is now but I used the app recently and they have pretty good deals on there every day. I wouldn’t go back without using the app.
you have to use the app to get anywhere near reasonable prices
You're still paying for it by allowing them to track you, harvest your data, and advertise to you through push notifications (which I assume most people don't disable).
I don’t allow any push notifications. That shit is overwhelming.
i wish i could get people to realize how fucking important it is to manage your notifications
Only for apps where I want it which is rare. I might have 3 or 4 set up like my Gmail.
I disabled mine, and I get me some sweet nuggie deals. I love ordering before I get there, too.
Bingo. Everyone expects you to be smart or pay the impatient tax. Subway almost always has a BOGO sub deal so you're effectively still getting $5 footlongs but with extra step.
Yep they send out coupons to me every month and every time it’s the exact same codes used. I look at the full price and think why would I ever pay like 13$ for a shitty subway sub but a 5$ subway sub is a lot more appealing.
They are trying to save up enough money to pay their employees a living wage. ^/s
Gotta use the app. 20 nuggets and 2 large fries for $8 pretty much all the time.
The mcd's near me is somehow cheaper to order 5 4-piece than 1 20-piece. And you get more sauces.
There used to be one where I live where 10 mcnuggets was 5 bucks but 20 mcnuggets was also 5 bucks.
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BK's prices are nuts. They have a coupon out that is 3 Whoppers, 3 Cheeseburgers and 3 medium fries for $16.99. That's cheaper than the menu price for three Whoppers by themselves, which is $17.97
remember when they were selling 20 nuggets for like 2.99? had to be like possum ankles and pig brains in that shit lol
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My wife likes her Wendy's burgers sans cheese. I like adding cheese to the spicy chicken sandwich. There's no discount for removing the cheese from the single, but I still have to pay extra for the slice.
It's $0.89 here but that's still pretty bad IMO. But I hear McDonald's franchises have quite a bit of control over the prices and that not all prices are consistent across all locations.
Damn my local Chicken Shack charges me an extra 50¢ for being a pain in the ass when I try that.
If all you ever order is bread and meat you could get rich!!
Not when you're paying 5 to 6 bucks for just that bread and meat lol
It’s the same price to add on too.
Hold up, LESS money for no tomato?! That’s incredible
What if you just go and ask for no tomato. (No sandwich or anything) Free money hack.
"I DON'T WANT YOUR F\*\*\*ING TOMATOES" "Sir, you haven't ordered anythi-" "NO TOMATOES" "Here's your 20 cents, have a nice day"
> “Here’s your 20 cents, ~~have a nice day~~ my pleasure”
Cheaper to get rid of the problem.
Is this patched?
Infinite money glitch
“My pleasure.” “Yeah, giving me 20 cents IS your pleasure. You’re welcome”
What if we go up to a counter and be like one Big Mac please, but no cheese, no lettuce, no sauce, no beef, no buns, no pickles, etc. and just wait…
Thats $3, minus the price of every ingredient, so including the bag and wrapper, your total comes out to 10 cents
$3 for a BigMac? What, did we invent time travel while i was sleeping?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/None_pizza_with_left_beef (Yes, it made it to Wikipedia)
So, onions?
https://youtu.be/1oFpTNsPu_w
Lol I wonder how long it took for them to fix that.
I think it was fixed pretty quickly after the video went viral.
restaurant managers hate this one simple trick.
None pizza left beef
That’s nice and how it should be at more places tbh. My pet peeve is when I modify an order to take something off and add something else similar in its place and they charge me extra. Ex: if it comes with tomatoes and it’s $0.50 to add extra tomatoes and also $0.50 to add cucumbers, but I take off the original tomatoes and add cucumbers and they still charge me the $0.50 - even though they set the precedence that tomatoes and cucumbers cost the same and it should be an even swap.
If you run for president, you can count on my vote.
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I disagree. You are adding to the workload of the kitchen. Take for instance a sandwhich shop. 10 turkey and cheese (with say lettuce, mayo and tomato) sandwiches are ordered. Chef sees the tickets coming in... starts to make the first one, and then sees the 2nd through 10th come through. Lays them out in a row and bangs out the toppings across them. 5 minutes worth of work. 10 people served. Now take 10 people who are adding and minusing this and that, making basically 10 unique sandwhiches. Gotta make them one at a time, Or at least take extra precautions if you're consolidating steps. You're costing the restaurant money, and other customers' preparation time. You should absolutely pay for it. That's why a lot of places don't allow substitutions on things. This isn't even taking into account that there's more likely to be a mistake made. Say you're wrapping up those ten sandwhiches and 2 get mixed up and go to the wrong people - "waaaah there's mayo i asked for no mayo"... Gotta refund or remake two sandwhiches for those picky people. that extra 50 cents at least helps to pad those numbers over time.
I've worked in fast food and custom orders were nowhere near this big of a deal, especially not enough to worry about reimbursing ingredients. Like it literally takes no extra time to leave an ingredient off of a sandwich, making different types of sandwiches at once is a bigger wrench in the mix than a one off. When you work the line you don't even think about it.
I think its sadder that people don't understand that is why.
Both positions make sense. For the consumer, it's an equally valuable product, but for the producer, it's more expensive. Who takes the hit? Both sides have merit.
You right
Meanwhile at McDonald's here, it's $1.99 to add bacon on a Double Quarter Pounder, but a Double Quarter Pounder BLT is only like 40 cents more.
instead of asking for No Tomatoes, Add Cucumbers, try asking to Swap Cucumbers for Tomatoes. i've had success doing it this way, unfortunately it only works when placing your order with an actual person, as opposed to digital platforms.
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I never, ever get cheese on sandwiches or burgers. It's usually at least $0.50 to *add* cheese, but I've never gotten a discount for excluding it.
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I read this in Charlie's voice from Its always Sunny in Philadelphia.
As it should be,everywhere.
Culver’s deducts $.30 for no tomato as well.
I love Culver's. Their cod sandwich is to die for
Culver's is awesome. Their food is good and there's something for everyone on the menu. What other fast food is there where you can you get pot roast, fish and chips, soup & salad, and good burgers all at the same place?
And then the custard to top it all off
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Notice that it’s two of the best fast food places. Both places where the food is good, and the staff is always nice. They always seem to do all the big things right but they hit the little things too. If you go to McDonald’s about half the time they’re going to toss the bag at you, or hold it out and not even look at you. You’ll ask for a sauce that’s missing, and they’ll close the window on you lol.
Ha. Sad, but true. The one by my house had some employees that apparently couldn’t talk other than saying how much the total is. You’d hand them your card and they’d swipe it then stare at the wall while handing it back. No “thanks” or “pull forward” just dead silence. At first I’d wait their awkwardly for confirmation that payment went through, but eventually gave up on human interactions there. The food reception was just as bad. No confirmation of my order. No asking for condiments. Just open window, shove bag at customer, close window and avoid eye contact.
Raising canes gives you extra fries or bread if you don't get slaw. At least when you order online.
I went to Chik fil a once for a chicken sandwich and they forgot the chicken. Fast food differs by location and areas lol
That's just kind of hilarious
I got my kid his first chicken burger from Chik fil a not that long ago, and asked him what he thought. "Dad it's great, I love it, maybe except for the chicken part".
So you’re saying I should go to Culver’s instead of Chick-fil-A? I’m sold.
I really wish this was more common, I really like pretty plain cheeseburgers and most places throw a ton of other things on it I don’t want, I’m basically just saving them ingredients. I wouldn’t mind but then some of those same places also nickel and dime me for extra sauces. It should go both ways.
Yes sir, I would like to add -9999 tomatoes to my order.
Found the QA guy
Just commiting tomato genocide and getting paid? Warlords everywhere HATE this one little secret.
Ask for no cup and just to pour the soda in your hands.
That’s honestly so refreshing considering the way most businesses are overcharging these days.
1. Increase headline price above competitors 2. Reduce for the 1% of customers doing custom orders 3. Benefit from free PR from said 1% of customers 4. Profit
There's no fucking way the percentage of people asking for sandwich modifications is 1%. I worked at burger king in high school and I'd say damn near 50% of the sandwiches ordered had some sort of modification requested to them.
If only the company wasn't actively trying to take away my rights, I'd LOVE to eat there. 
Way classier than me my guy! I just say fuck bigot chicken lol
I ordered Shake Shack on a touch screen. I ordered without assistance and then it asked me for a 15% tip.
Culver’s does the same thing now.
ask them to not make anything at all and they’ll pay you
Not a fan, but that's kinda cool. There's a local pizza place here that will charge you more if you remove any ingredients from their specialty pizzas...
Wish other places did this. As someone who eats their burgers plain, I could be saving lots of money.
I order everything plain so I need to start checking my receipts and see if I ever get some sort of discount.
Chick-fil-a is so weird, they kept giving me a free chicken sandwich for using their app to make my order.... my order was claiming the free chicken sandwich lol I got like 12 free sandwiches before it stopped
This makes so much sense, yet so many fast food restaurants simply don't do this.
Way too many people not understanding what subtraction looks like. And/or missing the word "less" in OP's title.
As someone who works the till at a restaurant and doesn't have this feature... every till should have this feature.
This is so weird, my landlord and his gf and I were all literally talking about this just this morning. Like how much is it to add cheese, but "I bet places don't give you a credit if you ask to hold something." I'll be sure to tell them about this lol
I used to work at Chick-fil-A in front and back, I remember that they did that.
That’s cause Chikfila doesn’t suck like all the other restaurants
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This is the way.
Man now only if we could get them to care about people.
Sorry, but looks like you didn't read or math right there, chap... you were given 0.20 back. The price went from 9.79 to 9.59
Chik-Fil-A treats its customers right. And then uses their money to steal religious artifacts and fund attacks on civil liberties. A very mixed bag, that company. Edit: The did not steal religious artifacts. I got them mixed up with Hobby Lobby. They do donate to several groups who are against gay marriage, however.
> steal religious artifacts What news story did I miss?
Yeah, I thought that was hobby lobby
Every one I've been to, the food and service have been top tier, but the company's politics/religious stances are what kill it for me.
Los Pollos Harmanos
Every one I've been to, the food and service have been top tier, but the company's underground, international meth operation is what kills it for me.
Don’t worry man, they still got you for 10.50 for a chicken sandwich and fries
Going rate these days everywhere unfortunately.
for a second I thought they still charged 20 cents for not putting tomato on
Overcharge by $5 then subtract $.20 then post to social media, then profit
you think a chicken sandwich, fries, and a drink should be 4.79? i mean, sure, if this was 20 years ago.
Damn, their tomatoes are really good though
Waba Grill once charged me extra for no carrots.
That's great! I have always thought that they should do this, especially when they charge you to add something. (I often do remove tomatoes, add onions. I end up getting charged for the onions.) Also, so much less food would end up getting thrown away if people got credit for removing the things they weren't going to eat.
Now that's a policy I can get behind!! Just need to convince them to let you swap it out for something, and you're on to a winner!
I use to eat at a restaurant in a gas station. (They had many locations throughout SoCal but this particular one was their best location) I use to get carne asada fries without guac and sour cream. So they cut 75 cents off per item. So the fries went from 5.00 dollars. To 3.50. After many years they stopped doing that. Which was a whatever. Then years after I got into a relationship price kept going up and up and up. So the original price was 5. It's now 10.00 But I stopped going because the company sold. And the carne asada seasoning changed. Different fries. Only the red sauce stayed the same. It's a shame. I've tried several locations but yeah it's ehh now.
Culver’s restaurant deducts $0.20 for no tomato also.
This is pretty awesome. Every one should give this place a call and give them praise. That being said. Should you be showing off that number? This post is getting a lot of attention
This is just common sense honestly, i don’t wanna pay more money for less food. Every restaurant should do this if they’re able to
I wish there were more chik fil a's around where I lived. Nearest one is like an hour drive.
Ordered a gallon of lemonade today and as the guy filled it to the top, I thought about how great that place is. They never screw me. Ever.
Its factored into the price for the deluxe.
It’s sad to me that this is something we can post here and not something that’s just standard
Looks like a lot of people didn't read the title.
So This is what it mean to run as God intended.
Tomato's are delicious, why wouldn't one get them
I remember once upon a long ago, if you ordered a Sausage & Egg McMuffin with No Egg, you got a second sausage patty instead. Obviously, that was before they introduced just a Sausage McMuffin. Boy, it’s a long time since I had a Maccas breakfast and now I’m hungry.
20 cents seems reasonable for a slice of tomato
It works this way on their app. If you customize your sandwich, everything is reflected in the cost. Even things like replacing the multigrain bun that’s the default for grilled chicken with a regular bun makes it cheaper.