Food Scams

What are some irritating or infuriating food scams?

>Charging $2.00 for each additional topping on pizza

When they charge $1,000,000 for a single mcdonalds frenchfry

>go to a restaurant
>they have a forced tip policy

Krab chowder

When you go to burger king and order a Big Mac and when they ask you to pay it turns out it costs $1,000,000

>gluten free rice

When you order a pizza and it says it costs $5 but when it arrives they say they meant $5 PER SLICE and when you only have one $5 bill to give the driver they throw all but one slice in front of you into the storm gutter

When you order a two-bread sandwich and they charge separately for each bread.

Do Americans really do this?

This thread is an abortion.

Yes. If you're suspected of trying to leave without tipping, you'll be dragged out back and strapped into the Tipping Chair, and tortured until you tip.

Your mom wishes she had a this thread.

She did

That was uncalled for

When you order a pizza and it's all thin and has like veggies instead of sauce.

> "...and a cup of water"
> "we don't have water cups. bottled water is $3 extra."
cancel order and leave.

> pre-meal bread/chips costs extra

> "parties of 6+ have a 18% gratuity added to the bill"

> substituting sides costs extra

I didn't know atheists had their own restaurants.

markup on fountain drinks.

being stingy with packaged condiments.

filling up your cup with ice.

bartender bugging you for your next drink before you've even finished the one you have.

>Go to a restaurant
>Waitress is very rude
>Food is great though
>Tip her because I want to be polite
>Receive the bill, turns out the tip was already included in the total value
All my rage

underrated post

>ketchup and mayo on my burger are charged extra

it's not free for them, why should it be free for you?

I should pay the salt on the fries by this logic.

and you do

Bane?

Guess I'm going somewhere else where it's free.

good, some customers are worth losing

>Being stingy with packaged condiments

This pisses me off. Long John silvers are purpatrators of this. They give you 2 packs of tarter sauce for 5 pieces of fish. And when you ask for more they give 2 more packs. It pisses me off.

Adding Mac sauce is an extra .85ยข
Adding cheese is $1.25
Order a large onion rings or fries and they give me a medium
No more dollar menu everything is $1.50 minimum

>> "...and a cup of water"
>> "we don't have water cups. bottled water is $3 extra."
where has this happened?

Where I live, there's a shitty wings and bar place that does exactly this.
Guess I'll never will go back there.

I work in a bar and the owner doesn't do glasses of water. She wants me to use bottled water instead. I feel terrible every time I pour one. It's one of the things that piss me off in restaurants too.

Knew a guy who used to bring his own slices of cheese to put on a fast food order
Never liked that guy

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protip
ask for exactly how many you want
>1 malt
>2 chup
>5 tarter

>bartender bugging you for your next drink before you've even finished the one you have.
That just sounds like a good bartender.

Its bad practice. I won't offer you another drink until you've finished yours. It also looks indecent for other patrons if you've got drinks lined up.

Angus burgers...such a scam.
The only thing that makes angus different than any other cow part is the degree of marbling...which means nothing if the meat is ground. Same with wagyu or kobe

>tfw i got my own nut trees

I grew up in the age when LJS only had condiments on tap and those little cups.

t. entitled boomer

never really thought about it. Good point

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>tfw i got to nut on my own trees

My favorite pizza place near Bellevue Hospital charges $3 each topping. Why is this allowed

They shouldnt worry and have no charge for them

With barnacles like these, who needs anemones

Is the torture that the chair tips over?

Wouldn't it make sense if the local water in the taps wasn't safe to drink?

You mean a gratuity? Holy shit lol

>forced tips for live music.

I don't come for your owner's kid's shitty singing skills, I just want to eat goddamnit. If you state anywhere that after 5/6/7 etc. PM there's gonna be music and a 10% fucking tip on a bill for it I'm so out.

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Literally all and any fast food advertising

>book a table for two
>get stood up
>manager escorts me out
>receive two bills in the mail

Because you live in Bellevue. Move.

>take product that never has and never will have gluten in it
>add small label to packaging that says "gluten free!"
>sales jump because braindead consumers will actually fall for this
The average person is frighteningly stupid.

>t. Yuropoor

If you can't afford it, that's your fault.

pasta in general

>10 cents worth of pasta noodles
>some franchise bulk pasta sauce that also costs fuck all
>maybe a couple dollars worth of sausage slices, hot peppers or shrimp if you got a specific kind
>$14.99 plus tip

Thats just inconsiderate

kek

Unless you're in Flint Michigan there is no excuse. Your restaurant shouldn't be open if you don't have potable water.

I have a forced tip policy.
Once I force the tip in the rest is gonna' go in too.

>menu says sandwich comes with avocado
>it's guacamole

>where has this happened?
It's standard in europe. They bill you 4$ for a glass full of TAP WATER. No ice. No lemon. Nothing which would add any value to it. And germany has one of the cleanest tap waters on the fucking planet, so everyone drinks it.

That's the life for europoors.

top focking kek

Last time I was in Germany everywhere did this. I'll also never understand their obsession with sparkling water

>order two three topping pizzas
>they won't let you have a cheese pizza and a six topping pizza

No it isn't

>dad goes into ANY restaurant establishment
>leaves with 99 packets of every sauce they have, 100 napkins, straws, 200 sets of plastic utensils, 400 packets of salt and pepper
>be riding with him
>"hey son want to get some taco bell?" as we go by the taco bell "pulls into the taco bell"

Wut

>go to the north one time
>go to a local restaurant, looks cozy
>waitress wants to know what drink i want
"Sweet tea, please"
>waitress comes back with a glass of unsweet tea and three packets of sweet n' low

god i hate the north sometimes

he just asks for the shit and they always give it to him
he fucking empties out taco bell of sauce packets every time we go

Is he going on deployment or something lol. I've seen people bring giant grocery bags filled with assorted sauces from different fastfood places because the food is so damn bland that adding Taco Bell sauce to it is a major improvement.

no, he just has this mentality where he has to get all the free shit he can wherever he goes

It's so annoying how people from the South act like it's normal to ask for shit that isn't served outside of Dixie, and they get annoyed thinking everyone else is retarded. I don't go down to Georgia and ask the waitress for pot pie and a side of redbeet eggs and get all pissy about it because they brought out an actual baked potpie with a crust and not the Pennsylvania Dutch style they serve around where I live.

It's not our fault that your culture is based around diabetes.

Delivery fees on pizza. They don't go to the driver, they only exist so that Domino's/ Pappa John's/ Pizza Hut can tell you that a $12.00 pizza costs $9.00

they charge 20c for ketchup and 20 for mayo

About this... I order pizza and most of the time is free delivery, so I tip the driver, around 10%.
Now, I'm not from the US and tipping is something we do, but no one would crucify you if you don't.
This pizza place I really like charges around 10% (not fixed, but considering what I usually buy), so I'm inclined not to tip the driver.
Yet, I feel he expects one.
Should I tip the guy? I mean, they charge me to pay him, so I really don't know.

Adult meals not also having toys

>order an adult happy meal
>you're getting excited for your new toy
>pull out a NASCAR-sponsered butt plug
>"collect all 7"

i don't get it

Lmao I do this too. Always grab a ton of plastic forks and napkins. Not poor just super lazy, I don't want to go to the store and buy that shit and I don't want to have to wash the fork when I'm done with it. Simple solution is to grab Chipotle or something , take and take a shit ton of forks and napkins for future use.

is this what rural and suburban whites do for fun?

>live in southern IL
>restaurants have a 50/50 chance of having my drink
>order God's greatest non alcoholic drink
>"We don't have sweet tea. But we have unsweet and sugar packets on the table"

It pisses me off so much I tip less

>always see this little taco bar packed
>fuck it, I want some damn tacos
>prices are a little high, idgaf I'm hungry
>order $6 "mild" salsa as a side
>grab my to go back when it's ready
>get home, open bag
>no chips
>call store and tell them they forget an item
>"Salsa doesn't come with chips. You have to order them separately"
>$6 salsa doesn't come with chips?!
>write shitty review, never eat there again

I usually mark the north/south border by availability of good sweet tea at most restaurants.

I'm black first off, but I do it because I don't want to go shopping for these items later out of being lazy.

I always make a mental note of which places have it. And I make sure to ask if it's fresh brewed and not out of the soda machine or the gold peak shit

>regular Oreos 2.50 12 oz
>Diet 100 calorie Oreos 2.75 10 oz

They are literally charging extra for less. Lots of 100 calorie foods are like this is you pay attention. You are getting less food for your money. It's better to just eat less of the regular kind than to buy 100 calorie bullshit.

Fries and drinks at any fast food joint

Costs them nothing and they're still stingy kikes

Minus the logistics of getting it there, price of materials, and the wage paid to the people who made it for you. But yeah. Costs nothing.

I fucking hate Wendy's for making me ask for ketchup. They never put it in the bag unless you specifically ask. They treat that shit like gold.

When, where, and why did that happen?

I could understand the napkins and utensils, and sort of understand the sauce packets. But what does he do with all those straws?

I don't understand any of it.

Any place which has disposable napkins, condiment packets, and plastic silverware isn't worth patronizing. Do people really go to such places unironically?

Wendy's is actually good, and they don't treat their customers like shit by assuming their tastes are bad enough to want ketchup. Check your palate and then check your palette and then kill yourself you philthy subhuman

Any Italian restaurant.

Applebee's did this to my family. The tap water was gross in the city, and my brother ordered a water. The waitress said that "ohhh, I'll just get you a bottle instead!"

She didn't tell us that they suddenly decided to charge for it.

Stop lying because you envy us so much.
We dont pay for tap water, muripoor

You the kid that always makes "fuck white people" threads?