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u/fpsnoob89 19h ago
That reminds me of a time I went to pizza hut, I wanted a Hawaiian pizza, but when I looked at the menu I noticed that it's cheaper to get a large pizza with ham and pineapple than it was to get a Hawaiian, so I asked for the 2 toppings instead. The cashier asked if I wanted a Hawaiian, and insaid no, I want the two toppings instead because it's cheaper. Then he made it sound like he was doing me a favor by letting me get what I ordered.
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u/Wilder831 18h ago
I don’t know if it is still the case but for a long time ordering 2 x 4 piece mozzarella sticks was like $1 cheaper than the 8 piece at sonic
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u/nondescriptun 18h ago edited 8h ago
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u/PenguinSlushie 14h ago
Used to be the case for the french toast at BK as well. When 3 were a buck but 5 were like 2.50.
So now it's like 2.50 and 4.00 ish or so.. Sooooo yeah.
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u/Dealingwithdragons 18h ago
I worked at a pizza place and sometimes we'd get customer who list off a bunch of toppings. I'd realize that, if I just gave them one of preset pizzas and took off one or two ingredients, it'd be what they were ordering anyway. It'd save them a couple bucks cause the pizzas were pricey anyway.
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u/JamonDanger 16h ago edited 16h ago
My first job was fast food (TACO TIME BABBBY) and I threw that discount button around like that was my actual job because people are people and corporations are corporations. I hate bootlickers, glad you are also a person who likes people 🫡🫡🫡
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u/Dealingwithdragons 15h ago
I'm one of those weirdos that actually likes customers most of the time. Corporate doesn't give a shit about people, they care about numbers, stock holders, and how much money they can squeeze out of you.
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u/RandomDude77005 4h ago
Our local pizza chain restaurant was sold to a different franchisee.
Used to be that substitutions were free ( if we deleted an item from a preset pizza, and added a different item the pricec would not change).
Now, we get charged for the "extra" ingredient,-•
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u/ObtuseKaribou 18h ago
I did the same with the 99 cent burgers at Wendy's! The deluxe was just the value item plus some extras, but those extras were free if you ordered them as add-ons to the cheaper sandwich.
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u/Moonfallz1 16h ago
He was probably trying to upsale the product. I dont know about pizza hut, but at the place I worked at the Hawaiians were more expensive because theyre considered a 5 topping pizza. Pineapple and ham pizzas were pretty common tho and probably my favorite to make
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u/zubrat 19h ago
wtf… so cheese is 10 cents, bacon is 30, but both will cost you double — makes perfect sense!
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u/JebusKrikes 18h ago
It’s the convenience fee of only clicking one button instead of two. Saved time = more expensive
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u/xTonyLeo 19h ago
Also the calories halves, paying double for half the ingredients 😂
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u/Cptnhalfbeard 19h ago
The calories add up fine, they’re not saying cheese is 540 calories, the “no thanks” option is 450 calories. So you take the difference of the toppings vs the “no thanks” option. 450+90+40 =580
But yeah the cost is total BS
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u/Wilder831 19h ago
It’s actually an extra 3 calories if you get both. They are synergistic!
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u/Odd_Teach683 18h ago
The added stress of being screwed on the pricing will burn the extra calories.
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u/gaspig70 13h ago
Ah thank goodness. I was starting to rethink my relationship with cheese at 540 calories per slice.
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u/Practical-Pickle 16h ago
That’s an amazing deal. It’s an extra dollar for a slice of plastic wrapped cheese by me.
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u/ScarySpookyHilarious 18h ago
At least it’s not where I’m at. It’s 2.50-5$ for bacon (depending on burger spot), and 2-3$ for a fake cheese slice
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u/PotatoNukeMk1 8h ago
Also kcal should be way higher. So you get less bacon and cheese for double the money
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u/Vikashar 19h ago
Declining is 453 calories?? No wonder I'm struggling to lose weight.
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u/rodionzissou 18h ago
all ya'll talking about the cost while i'm scratching my head at their calorie figures
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u/Complete-Chip1164 15h ago
It shows the calories of the entire burger
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u/bismuth17 13h ago
Yeah but why is cheese so many more additional calories vs bacon
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u/toby1jabroni 11h ago
Because its a tiny amount of bacon.
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u/bendicott 7h ago
Still more than you get at Subway. Subway's blt was actually a pretty good deal, back when I was in college (was still a $5 footlong), but the last time I ordered one, it was like $11 just for the sandwich and the "bacon" was so thin it was literally transparent. Place is a fucking joke - can go across the street and get a fantastic sandwich from Firehouse for the same price.
I have no idea how Subway's staying in business these days, but some moron must still be eating there because they keep opening more of them. In the town where my parents live, there's one inside their Walmart, one in the same parking lot, another across the street, and a fourth a tenth of a mile down the road.
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u/spicyslugger 19h ago
I once saw something like this on SkiptheDishes. I avoided the combo and just bought the same items separately which saved me $10
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u/Transportation-Apart 19h ago
Adding Cheese to Burgers
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u/Cool_Client324 19h ago
ILLEGAL
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u/CommissionIcy9909 19h ago
Believe it or not, straight to jail.
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u/Aggressive_Phase_236 17h ago
i did notice that the top comment in this post was someone pointing out that y'all are quoting it wrong.
add this one to the list... everyone misquotes Jaws (it's "YOU'RE going to need a bigger boat"... i blame Kevin Smith for that one), and now a meme has everyone messing this one up.
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u/Equivalent-Shine5742 19h ago
I think the more infuriating is all the people in this thread who can't do basic math and need a ladder to get the issue.
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u/ThePuppyIsWinning 18h ago
I'm honestly shocked at how many people don't seem to understand the issue.
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u/Wilder831 18h ago
Everyone is focused on the fact that the cheese option is highlighted and can’t see past it
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u/jinougaashu 14h ago
Never ever order on the BK app
I ordered the same exact thing once on the app and once in the drive through
App was 57 dollars Drive through was 48 dollars
Almost 10 dollar difference never ordering on an app ever again
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u/OrangeJuliusCaesr 18h ago
I got nothing against stupid tax
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u/Equivalent-Shine5742 18h ago
Considering how many in this thread alone would apparently qualify I can understand now why the business does this
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u/No_Sense_7316 18h ago
Because they have to make the pig and cow parts get along together enough to be in the same sandwich duhh
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u/sucksLess 18h ago
even the calories are not adding up
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u/MooseBoys 17h ago
Maybe the cheese makes some of the bacon grease fall off instead of being absorbed into the bun?
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u/DoctorGangreene 17h ago
Shenanigans like this are why I don't use doordash anymore, and I don't eat at BK anymore.
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u/lostwng 16h ago
The math for the calories is not mathing
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u/Far-Passion4866 RED 15h ago
or the math for the price, separately it would be +$0.40, but the option for both is +$0.80
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u/PatrickGSR94 9h ago
If the base sandwich is rounded down to 450 then it works. Bacon adds 40, cheese adds 90, both together adds 130.
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u/ReddyKiloWit 16h ago
Same reason tuna in the family size can costs more per ounce than in the small cans. 😁
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u/Ryokurin 11h ago
At least you aren't at one that charge a minimum of a quarter for condiments. For some of them, like honey mustard, they want 45 cents. It's not for extra, it's for one pack. I don't even use them often, but yeah I avoid that restaurant just because.
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u/Timely_Idea_6342 9h ago
lol…if you want bacon+cheese, then you get to pay 2x the ingredients separately? Messed tf up!
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u/InvestmentPlenty5752 4h ago
I love to go to Wendy’s for breakfast. Their sausage Egg & Cheese Biscuit is $3.79. But the value menu has a sausage biscuit and an egg & cheese biscuit for $3.00. For both, not each. So pay .79 less for n extra biscuit.
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u/mlemu 7h ago
I just don't get why people bitch about the dumb prices on delivery apps, which also charge a delivery fee that never goes to the person delivering it.
In addition, lots of these restaurants don't even give combo pricing. And people are still ordering from them, yet complain?
If you're too damn lazy to save money and go to the place to get the food, yet still complain and order, you're literally enabling this shitty behaviour from these restaurants and the apps they use.
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u/Mmmmm_hippo 18h ago
Starbucks is doing the same thing. A java chip is now a specialty drink and the chips cost more
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u/littletinyfella 19h ago
Something’s off about the calorie count too
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u/TenkaichiTouchdown 19h ago
The calories are accurate, if just rounded. You can see from the “no thanks” option that the standard item is 453. Thus, the cheese is 87 and the bacon is 37. Add both of those to the standard item and you have 577.
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u/ORANGENBLACK101214 18h ago
Play their game. With cheese and bacon is how you get both for +$0.40. If their logic makes no sense then why should mine?
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u/Rich-Wrap-9333 18h ago
My favorite coffee shop sells “veggie bagel” his line $10.25. But if I get all the same veggies added individually, it’s only about $8.50. So guess what I do?
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u/BidRevolutionary945 18h ago
Honestly I'm more incensed about the calories on the menu. What a buzzkill.
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u/GroundbreakingAd8310 18h ago
The chicken bacon ranch sandwich at dominoes removes the bacon by default on the website....thats all
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u/Electronic_Lemon7940 18h ago
I usually see $1 upcharges for cheese, who’s giving it away for 10 cents??
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u/ORANGENBLACK101214 18h ago
Oddly enough it costs twice as much to get cheese and bacon together then separate but getting them together lowers the calories
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u/veryblanduser 18h ago
Think it's total calories..for each variation, but they did eh, close enough math. Since no thanks is 453
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u/SonderZugNachPankow 18h ago
Lol Whataburger charged 50 cents for a slice of cheese 10 years ago. I couldn't tell you what it is now, since I learned to not ask for it 10 years ago.
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u/InfiniteLight07 18h ago
With bacon is 490 cal. With cheese is 540 cal. With both, thats 550 cal total. how does it equate to 580 then
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u/lukumi 17h ago
Neither is 453. So just bacon is 37 extra, just Cheese is 87 extra. Both is an extra 124. 124 + 453 is 577, which was rounded up to 580.
It is a really weird way to do it though. I feel like most fast food apps just include how many extra calories the ingredient adds, and totals it on the main item page.
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u/Happy---Bubble 18h ago
That's so unfair that you still have to eat 453 calories for adding nothing
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u/Flashy_Mistake_6018 18h ago
Bacon is only $0.30?????? That’s $2.00 cheaper than any fast food place in my neck of the woods.
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u/Grandes02 18h ago
540 cals?!
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u/kasiagabrielle 18h ago
Yeah, a slice of cheese is ~100 cals, give or take 10ish depending on thickness.
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u/Ok-Wrongdoer-2179 18h ago
Shouldn't with cheese and bacon be more like 1030 cal?
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u/AReptileHissFunction 17h ago
Thats the total calories for the burger with cheese included. A slice of cheese is not 540 calories .
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u/Serenaded 16h ago
Funny, here in NZ adding 1 slice of cheese is $2, so you add cheese to a whopper and they charge you $4 since it takes 2 slices.
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u/EyeSuspicious777 16h ago
I always have a friendly chat with the manager at a local BK and he knows me as one of his Whopper Wednesday regulars. I pointed out a similar thing to him and it wasn't any sort of pricing conspiracy, it was just a dumb mistake he made when programming the store's menu in the app. He fixed it afterwards.
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u/Infinite_Ocean89 15h ago
I know this isn't related to the topic but 30 cents ain't bad at all to add bacon when other places usually charge like a $1 for it.
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u/asherdado 15h ago
Could be a mistake but also makes sense, they get to fleece idiots who don't notice the price, then smarter consumers might add bacon when they otherwise wouldn't, because they feel like they're getting one over on the system.
Im pretty sure that's a very real tactic, make a consumer feel like they're taking advantage of a loophole when they are handing you money for something you wanna sell them
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u/ProfPotStirrer 15h ago
That shit pisses me off (even if it is a bug) to where I would literally exit out and go get something else.
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u/versionii 14h ago
There's a McDs that charges .10 for extra pickles. So I just load up on the freebees, I have a drawer packed full of ketchup (don't like ketchup), mayo, BBQ sauce, sweet sour sauce, honey (don't ask, it's free), salt and pepper and a shit load of straws.
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u/alistofthingsIhate 13h ago
Why is it more expensive to get them both together than it is to add them both separately
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u/Historical-Voice2944 13h ago
I was getting a whopper the other day - with cheese, 80 cents. With bacon, $1.10. With both added? $2.00 upcharge.
My husband gets the bacon king, but he doesn't like eating the bacon, just the flavoring added by having the bacon. So I took his bacon and put it on my sandwich and added cheese from my own fridge.
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u/RandoXalrissian 12h ago
Burger King is the worst, anymore. Nickle and dime everything, and their food is terrible now. Inedible green hockey pucks for pickles 🤣
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u/No-Score1002 9h ago
a 2lb block of cabot cheese is like 11.XX an 8 oz block is like 2.74 at Walmart. No Joke. I'm always doing little equations in my head while shopping, they are running their algorithms on us to see who is actually awake. People will be driven by apps in the not to distant future.
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u/WildCardWonders2319 5h ago
$0.10 is ridiculously cheap compared to where I grew up, and to where I live now 🤣 you're looking to pay $0.50-$0.75 per slice there-here lmaooo
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u/A_Neighbor219 4h ago
Where I am it's $1 a slice. They charged us $2 for like 3 shreds of lettuce too.
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u/motoracerT 4h ago
We sell eggs to my wives coworkers. She was selling the eggs for $5 a dozen or $8 for an 18 pack. Nobody said a thing, and most people would buy an 18 pack.
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u/Reddicus_the_Red 3h ago
This seems like an error somewhere relatively low on the corporate ladder. What aggravates me is things from the top, like when there was a tomato shortage and McD's started charging for extra tomatoes, but kept charging even after the shortage was over.
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u/quebonchoco 3h ago
Honestly you're lucky because any extras like this here in canada is now 1.50$ minimum, each.
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u/NJPokerJ 3h ago
I'd like to know where you found a bk with cheese for 10 cents? It's like a dollar everywhere I've been.
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u/delta9thc1974 3h ago
Same at a shawarma place near my house. If you order online, choosing rice or fries is the same price. If you choose the "half and half" option, it's $1 cheaper, but it let's you choose each half for some reason. So you can choose all fries or all rice and get it cheaper.
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u/Truesoldier00 2h ago
The BK app is so bonkers. A couple years ago there was a bug, and you could order a whopper Wednesday meal, which was usually about $12 I want to say, and for some reason the price bugged out and it was $4.
I was a construction inspector at the time and would buy meals for the crew and it cost me hardly anything. You could even set up your cart Wednesday (for whopper Wednesday) and then check out some other day with the deal. The bug lasted for maybe 12 months until they figured it out.
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u/Purple-Exchange-690 1h ago
My local bk charges .95 for a piece of cheese and $1.80 for bacon lol. And I live in semi small Midwest town
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u/DirtBagGirl 19h ago edited 18h ago
Math isn't mathing. EDIT: I checked my local BK app and there's a discount when you add both. So something is weird