That’s right, it’s more expensive to remove an item off your fast food order in this country !
Ok, so I go into Arby’s today and order the number 3, which is a large roast beef with curly fries and a drink. I politely asked the lady to take off the Pepsi (or just don’t give it to me) because I had no place in my truck for it, plus I have coke (which is better than Pepsi) at my house.
She looks at me like I have a dick growing out of my forehead and says, “you don’t want anything to drink?” and I explain to her that I have no place in my truck for it etc…
So then she starts pressing buttons on the cash register.
She says, “instead of it being $5.29, now it’ll be $7.15”. I was like…“what, just for a large Roast Beef and large curly fries!?!” Then I get to thinking, “either she did something wrong or she probably charged me for a roast beef and fries as separate items and not as a meal” and that is more expensive.
So I say, “fuggit, I’ll just take the Pepsi.” So I take the cup, pay the $5.29 and walk out, leaving the cup on the counter.
Isn’t that some shit, though? It’s MORE MONEY TO TAKE AN ITEM OFF YOUR ORDER in this country. haha.
I’m guessing the cashiet is a dimbulb and tried to remove a double-super-big-drink from your order (that she entered as a combo), but instead added a second double-super-biggie-monster-drink to it.
I’m not sure if this is the case still, but I’d bet that it is – At Dunkin’ Donuts, a ham and cheese croissant is more expensive than a ham, egg, and cheese croissant.
Doubt it. If you order a combo, you have to get the sandwich, fries and drink. If you don’t want one part of that you have to either order the two items on their own or just throw away the unwanted item. The registers won’t let you delete an item from a combo and not replace it with something. And she also really doesn’t care about the cupholder setup in your car. There’s a dim bulb here but it’s not the cashier.
I disagree, the dim bulb is still the cashier, who could have just rang it up as a combo and not given the OP the drink. Since I don’t drink when I eat, I run into this situation quite often. I simply tell the cashier to keep the drink, as I won’t drink it and have only had one or two not understand that if I paid for it, I can choose to not take it.
If those prices you quoted are accurate (and if you’re just telling the story for effect, I can understand why they wouldn’t be dead-on), I’d guess something got messed up.
Most places I go to, the combo is only ten to twenty cents cheaper than all three items ordered individually. For the sandwich + fries alone to be almost $2 more than the combination price would extremely unusual. That large of a price differential makes me suspect operator error.
Yup, the prices I quoted are dead on. The large roast beef used to be “The Big Montana” and that sandwich alone on the menu is almost like 5 bucks. Well, it used to be almost that much when it was called that. It was pricey, I know that much…
In the software world, the comparable thing is trying to buy a PC laptop without Microsoft Windows. They usually have you pay more for this option, if they let you do it at all.
That’s exactly what I meant. I’ve been to plenty of places where I’ve ordered only a sandwich, but the person behind the counter entered the sandwich “combo” instead. Trying to correct them can be a hassle.
The brighter ones will void the previous “combo” entry and re-enter just the single item “sandwich”. The dim bulbs will get confused. I’ve had people enter the “combo” then try to undo the error by voiding “beverage” and “fries” which, of course, the register won’t let them do. If the person is really struggling to do this, it may result in an additional item being added, at which point a manger has to get involved to fix it.
This is common in most fast food places today and I don’t understand the logic at all either. I’m not much of a soda drinker but I just do a heavy sigh and take the damn drink to save a few bucks.
