Restaurants always charge extra for adding extra ingredients but rarely will you get a discount for omitting ingredients, amirite?

Local Chinese food place will always double the meat when I order no veggies. Better than a discount.

by Proud-Athlete 1 month ago

Mine doubles the rice when I say no veggies

by nhoppe 1 month ago

Not as good, but still something.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

My local hibachi does that. The fried rice is absolute perfection.

by Proud-Athlete 1 month ago

When I say no rice sometimes they double the veggies sometimes they double the meat … most of the time they double the sauce

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Honestly it's probably cheaper for them to do that than to offer a noticeable discount

by Big_Question_755 1 month ago

Good for the wallet, bad for the heart

by judahbahringer 1 month ago

And colon

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Eat your vegetables.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

My ex used to get a Whopper with cheese, hold the meat patty. They charged her extra for the cheese every single time

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Whopper grilled cheese??!

by New_Woodpecker 1 month ago

No they didn't grill any part of it, just slapped a cold ass piece of cheese on there

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Brutal

by New_Woodpecker 1 month ago

Ya, you're AI. no human goes to BK and orders this

by Haagallene 1 month ago

No human goes to BK

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Tons of vegetarians order this

by EarObjective8525 1 month ago

We had a option to ring up a no meat whopper. It was cheaper because no meat patty. Cheese was still extra.

by Comfortable-Fail 1 month ago

Omg the COLD piece of cheese is the saddest part

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Then don't order a whopper...?

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Years ago I went to a local burger shop, the cost was for a plain burger, then everything you wanted they added to the cost, like ketchup was a nickel and so forth.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Not smart marketing tbh. The smart thing to do is start the price with a lot of ingredients on it and advertise on the menu that if you remove things you get a discount. People would see that as a savings and love it even though it's the same price as the version you said.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

That would be terrible marketing. "Yeah dude, their cheapest burger is like $100." "Nah, man. You just have to list off the 35 ingredients you don't want and the price goes way down." "Like awesome, dude. I'm so glad you took those business classes and all. Now pass me the bong."

by Anonymous 1 month ago

What burger has thirty five ingredients at like two and a half dollars a piece? Are you ordering like truffle oil and lobster tails on there?

by Constant-Chance-2285 1 month ago

My favorite bowl is hyper and you pronounce it like it's Greek! Hyperbole 😁

by Anonymous 1 month ago

That's literally how you can get a large for like 45 cents more. The pricing started with the large and reduced to offer the medium and small.

by dubuquejunior 1 month ago

Um, no. But that's good marketing. Getting you to buy the drink at all is the goal. I invite you to read a book I enjoyed when I started my first services business called, "Selling the Invisible." It explained a few ways to create imaginary value in peoples' minds. One was to have a ridiculously priced version of the thing you actually want to sell next to the thing you want to sell. You create the illusion of value. They could lose money on all the food so long as you buy the drink and they'd make a profit. You are reasoning in the wrong places. You need to shock people with your low, low prices and then upsell things that have prices that disappear in your memory. So you go for the $1 burger. You end up spending $10 on everything. But you remember they have great, cheap, $1 burgers.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Lol

by dubuquejunior 1 month ago

It seemed to work for them, they were always packed, so I guess the marketing was just fine.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

This guy markets.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Plenty of places do it this way around here [base price + add ingredients]. . .i prefer it.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

I think this would be infuriating

by Anonymous 1 month ago

They stayed busy, folks seemed to like it. Line was almost always out the door, they had one worker go down the line and ask what you wanted, she would write it on a brown paper bag with your name, and by the time you got to the register your order was waiting on you.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

I get the idea, it's basically build your own pizza, but I wouldn't want to see a list of charges for every little thing I'm getting on my burger.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Not if the standard burger is cheap.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

"Free" aka jack up the price so high it doesn't matter what the customer wants on it, you're still making money.

by CutRevolutionary2902 1 month ago

You can get a Big Mac with only lettuce and secret sauce but the workers aren't allowed to make eye contact when they hand you the order.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Most stuff is prepped ahead of time so it's easy to add something but quite difficult to remove specific things

by Anonymous 1 month ago

And even if it's easy to remove, the item is still built into the price and has already been purchased. If you get discounted for it, while the restaurant is still paying for it, they're kinda being dinged twice.

by AffectionateKey 1 month ago

I've never heard dont sleep on x as an expression! And you make a totally fair point. I like all things in mayo. I just can't handle mayo.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Lmaoo yea I get that, I didn't eat Ceasar dressing for a little bit after I started making it regularly for work and found out the ingredients. It's technically the opposite of your experience, but it still came down to a mental thing.

by Background_Honey 1 month ago

Culver's takes .25 off if you ask for no bun

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Also .80 for no cheese

by zwaters 1 month ago

Really? Wow didn't know about the .80 to bad I love boiling hot lava cheese on my burger though

by Anonymous 1 month ago

They also take off if you remove pickles or tomatoes

by Anonymous 1 month ago

So I went to a pub and it was burger night and it was $10 for just a plain burger plus $2 for everything extra you wanted like bacon, cheese etc. I was being cheap and just got the burger plain then I went a few weeks later on a different day and in the menu they had a bacon cheeseburger for $11 in the menu. I was then very perplexed by the $10 burger special lol

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Chick fil a is one of the few places that takes $ off

by LockNo7420 1 month ago

Can you explain? That's interesting

by Mleffler 1 month ago

I mean not much to explain. They discount the item based on ingredients taken off

by Big_Question_755 1 month ago

But like, really explain it though.

by ImaginaryAd 1 month ago

Oh sorry. The more ingredients you don't want, the cheaper your total

by Big_Question_755 1 month ago

I'm confused can you expand on this

by HousingLogical2196 1 month ago

Less food = less money

by Anonymous 1 month ago

I always get a deluxe with no tomato. The receipt will list no tomato -0.35

by LockNo7420 1 month ago

Some restaurants will charge more for the vegetarian option than the meat option. In other words, pay more for leaving something out.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

This is true. Sometimes you can get a deal out of it though, like "instead of bacon can I have cheese?". I was shocked the other day when I was doordashing a mcdos happy meal. They were charging +9 cents for NO toy. No extra charge if you got a toy.

by Burley60 1 month ago

McDonald's charges more for no ice now

by Fancy_Storm 1 month ago

I remember when BK had great food 1979.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Man I was just complaining about this. I love the sweet/spicy burger at whataburger but i dont like bacon on my burger and they put like 6 slices on there... so you'd think they'd knock the price down when i remove it but no.

by Classic-Volume 1 month ago

As it should be. You order off menu, you pay.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Catering is not only ingredients, you should always pay if you disturb the routine and making work longer and more difficult. You might pay this price with the extra or with the leftover. If you want to cook for yourself, stay at home and pick and chose.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

So let's say you're an accountant. You do the same reports the same way a thousand times a month. Then someone asks you to do something different one time. Now imagine you have 10 minimum-wage workers helping you do all those reports and you need to be sure they can do them flawlessly every time. How much do you want to encourage people to change their workflow?

by Anonymous 1 month ago

I'd be delighted if the work that needed to be done was cut down by a whole step. I still fail to see the issue here sir.

by Additional_Glove 1 month ago

The issue is another 10 seconds.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Then that -10s I need to spend making that burger. Again, where issue.

by Additional_Glove 1 month ago

Doing anything differently often takes longer. Your assumption is that their stations are not set up to facilitate specific actions. You are also assuming that the primary drivers of price in fast food are ingredients. They are not.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Fine, you wanna be nitpicky. If it takes 10 less seconds to add the lettuce, we gotta also add the maybe 2 extra seconds it would take to READ the special request on the ticket. It's not rocket science buddy. So yeah, sure time save gets cut down to -8s. And I am not assuming anything, plus that is irrelevant to the point. The point is it takes literally negative effort to not add lettuce to my burger compared to having the standard option. Once again, where issue.

by Additional_Glove 1 month ago

I'd say it's more an inconvenience fee. Kitchens work to a menu to the point they probably don't have to think about what they're doing. As soon as you start adding in changes to menu items it changes the flow in the kitchen

by Anonymous 1 month ago

And foodservice people tend to forget this as well. 1. Of I'm putting something into my body and paying someone to make it for me I will ask to omit any and all ingredients that I don't want to consume. 2. If that request is too much to ask then I'm at the wrong restaurant and will take my hungry ass somewhere else. 3. Unless the food is prepared beforehand like lasagna how is it a huge disruption to request no tomatoes on my burger?

by IllRip5299 1 month ago

There was one restaurant I went to where the vegan option was cheaper than the meat option. They were also importing luxury high end meats for their meat dishes.0

by Anonymous 1 month ago

That's how they get ya

by Appropriate-Cat3534 1 month ago

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by Better-Abies 1 month ago

My Husbands pet hate.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

I'm sorry?

by IllRip5299 1 month ago

I'm guessing they were trying to say pet peeve but either didn't know the right word, or they say it differently to be unique.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

I think you're right. Thanks it broke my brain trying to figure that out.

by IllRip5299 1 month ago

That's not how many flowers. Money always follows up.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

The cost of salt is negligible.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Why would you get a discount?

by Anonymous 1 month ago