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15 Apr 12 - 02:24 PM (#3338723) Subject: BS: Combo price my a** From: frogprince I'll be giving away one shameful fact to start with here: on Sunday mornings, when we get up and hurry to get my wife to church in time to robe for choir, we usually grab fast food on the way. Feel free to castigate us for that if you want. However: Our local Burger King has just added two new breakfast options: No.6, Southwestern Burrito, and No.7, two sausage burritos. The pricing for No.6 is $2.49 for just the burrito, $3.59 with tatter tots and coffee. The price for No.7 is $1.00 for one burrito, $3.89 for two burritos with tatter tots and coffee. In case you didn't notice, that comes out as paying 39 cents more for 49 cents less content. If I remember right, McDumpies also has at least one similar example running currently, but I didn't note down the specifics. I'm on my way just now to the Burger King website, to waste my time by telling them how impressed I am. |
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15 Apr 12 - 02:30 PM (#3338728) Subject: RE: BS: Combo price my a** From: gnu Give em hell, froggy! |
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15 Apr 12 - 02:32 PM (#3338730) Subject: RE: BS: Combo price my a** From: Big Al Whittle Theres a lot to be said for the Irish thing of having a Guinness after mass. Then your mind tends to ascend to a higher plane. |
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15 Apr 12 - 02:33 PM (#3338731) Subject: RE: BS: Combo price my a** From: Big Al Whittle usually a 747.... |
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15 Apr 12 - 04:06 PM (#3338768) Subject: RE: BS: Combo price my a** From: GUEST,Eliza When I used to attend Midnight Mass with my Catholic cousin Anne, the majority of the Irish congregation appeared to have treated themselves to several PRE-Mass Guinnesses! |
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16 Apr 12 - 02:18 PM (#3339134) Subject: RE: BS: Combo price my a** From: gnu Sooo... froggy. Did ya get a free Whopper? If so, I might try it too. I could use a new hockey puck. |
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16 Apr 12 - 02:43 PM (#3339146) Subject: RE: BS: Combo price my a** From: Bill D ?? Can't figger out if the TYPE of burritos makes a difference. Could Sausage be a different size? You need to ask the exact price for 2 exactly the same meals ..2 burritos with potatoes & coffee. (I once ordered breakfast at a little restaurant where "standard breakfasts" always included eggs. I don't eat eggs, so I asked for sausage, toast & coffee...just like #2, except for the eggs. She charged me 25 cents MORE for 'ala carte'. I asked why I was paying more for them to 'not cook an egg'. I got a stare and a mumbled reply about ala carte. It has been suggested that IF I had thought to say "#2...hold the egg"...or just let them cook an egg, and left it lie, I'd have been fine. I guess I was being penalized for not playing the game properly.) |
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16 Apr 12 - 02:56 PM (#3339155) Subject: RE: BS: Combo price my a** From: gnu Bill... I would have said, and have said, "Call the manager and tell him I am leaving within two minutes without paying my bill." That gets their attention. |
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16 Apr 12 - 05:02 PM (#3339210) Subject: RE: BS: Combo price my a** From: frogprince Bill, the combo prices were for one large "southwestern" burrito with potatoes and coffee, or two "sausage" burritos with potatoes and coffee. The "southwestern" was much bigger, so the fact that you could order one of those separately for $2.49, or one of the sausage ones separately for a buck, made sense. But they then effectively priced two of the little ones for 88 cents more than one "Southwestern" if you bought the combo. Anyhow, I just got an email reply a minute ago: Thank you for taking the time to contact BURGER KING® restaurants Guest Relations with your inquiry. As a valued guest, your comments and observations are important to us. Many of our BURGER KING® restaurant locations are franchised owned and operated. As such the locations are independent business entities; federal regulations prohibit us from dictating certain policies such as pricing and promotions. Thank you again for bringing this matter to our attention and rest assured that your comments have been forwarded to the appropriate management team so that they may be aware of your concerns. We value your opinion and look forward to serving you again in the near future. Kind Regards, BURGER KING® restaurants Guest Relations |
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16 Apr 12 - 05:47 PM (#3339231) Subject: RE: BS: Combo price my a** From: GUEST,999 Your call is very important to us, so hang onto the phone and our next available operator will be with you when s/he fuckin' well feels like it. |
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16 Apr 12 - 06:19 PM (#3339248) Subject: RE: BS: Combo price my a** From: Bill D LOL, frogprince. It is quite amazing how they can automate those email responses to say NOTHING in 150 words. |
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16 Apr 12 - 06:35 PM (#3339254) Subject: RE: BS: Combo price my a** From: gnu Not even a small fry? The bastards! Letter to the editor, I say! Write a god damned letter! (Canuck joke. See That Canadian Guy, Glenn Foster... he's a retired school teacher and they are bad ass dudes, eh. I know this one guy... man, I wouldn't fuck with him.) http://www.thatcanadianguy.com/ |
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16 Apr 12 - 06:42 PM (#3339257) Subject: RE: BS: Combo price my a** From: frogprince Anyhow, I'll probably take it lying down just like most folks; I just decided that, at least once, I would bellyache a little while I laid there. |
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16 Apr 12 - 06:58 PM (#3339263) Subject: RE: BS: Combo price my a** From: gnu Burger King gives me a bellyache too. I only eat Wendy these days. Classic double with the works... half a one per meal (day). No fries. No pop. And only every two or three months. Actually, it's been near a year. I like to get all the fixins together, buy fresh lean ground burger on sale and put up frozen burgers. Fixins are spanish onion and such. I never put up frozen burgers with the sloppy stuff like Miracle Whip or ketchup or mustard... too messy when ya nuke em. I do put in tomatoes if they are on sale but I de-seed em and take out the runny stuff. Oh... the reason I do all that is because I buy a pack of Kaiser buns... ya gotta buy at least 6 at a time. |
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16 Apr 12 - 07:28 PM (#3339275) Subject: RE: BS: Combo price my a** From: Jack the Sailor I go to Wendys and get 2 Jr cheeze burger deluxe and throw away two of the buns. |
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16 Apr 12 - 07:32 PM (#3339278) Subject: RE: BS: Combo price my a** From: gnu Ii hear ya, JtS. Smart shopper, you are. |
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16 Apr 12 - 07:45 PM (#3339286) Subject: RE: BS: Combo price my a** From: Bill D I just got a flyer from Burger King announcing "they now deliver" in my area....You can order HEAPS of stuff by the bucket. |
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16 Apr 12 - 07:48 PM (#3339288) Subject: RE: BS: Combo price my a** From: Jack the Sailor They are on the dollar menu!! But I just looked up the calories.... 350 per! take off 150-200 for the 2 half buns that's 550-600 calories! |
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16 Apr 12 - 10:27 PM (#3339342) Subject: RE: BS: Combo price my a** From: gnu Ahhmmm tellin ya... buy yer burger and fixins on sale and fry up a batch and freeze em. Cost ya five times less and there's a lot less calories. Well, quite a bit less calories, depending on how ya do em up. I got no time for fast food burgers. And French Fries? That is just sick! But, every now and then... Wendy... with her alluring red hair and perky... ahhhgggghhhh! Am I a burgerphile? |
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16 Apr 12 - 11:35 PM (#3339352) Subject: RE: BS: Combo price my a** From: Beer The Guinness before mass was so they could sleep through the long boring sermons. ad. |
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17 Apr 12 - 01:15 AM (#3339371) Subject: RE: BS: Combo price my a** From: Jack the Sailor I have turkey burgers at home, without the buns. |
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17 Apr 12 - 06:09 AM (#3339443) Subject: RE: BS: Combo price my a** From: Allan C. FP, it must be as BK says, the franchisers prices may be different. At our local BK the individual burritos (any kind) are a buck apiece. |
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17 Apr 12 - 06:53 AM (#3339454) Subject: RE: BS: Combo price my a** From: GUEST,Eliza I find the same sly trickery in Tescos. Supposedly 'On offer' large size item, when you could buy 2 small-size ones making the same weight for LESS! You have to have your wits about you. I take a calculator with me, I don't trust anybody these days! The point is that many of us (the majority I'd say) are on a very tight budget. These dishonest chicaneries are just plain greedy and wicked. |
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17 Apr 12 - 12:11 PM (#3339558) Subject: RE: BS: Combo price my a** From: Jack the Sailor WalMart, evil corporate monsters that they are, puts the per unit price on the shelf next to the item. Calculator makers and math teachers are constantly protesting outside their number one branch in Fayetteville Arkansas. |
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17 Apr 12 - 02:47 PM (#3339626) Subject: RE: BS: Combo price my a** From: gnu A while back, I ordered a burger and fries at Wendy's for Mum. The kid asked if I wanted the combo (drink with). I asked if the price was less. He said it was a better deal. I asked if the price was less. He said it was a better deal because I got the drink too. I asked if the price was less. He said it was a lot less than ordering a burger, fries and a drink separately and that's why they call it a combo (and his tone implied I was a stunned old ignorant fuck). I asked him what the price of each order would be. He was obviously annoyed when he punched his cash. He tole me the prices. I said I wanted the burger and fries and no more bullshit even tho the bullshit was free. |
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17 Apr 12 - 02:56 PM (#3339633) Subject: RE: BS: Combo price my a** From: Will Fly Don't go to burger joints. If I want a burger and fries - which isn't very often, to be honest - I make my own. And no bullshit. |
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17 Apr 12 - 02:58 PM (#3339635) Subject: RE: BS: Combo price my a** From: Jack the Sailor gnu, they are instructed to ask that question. No use in pestering them. It is part of the implicit deal in entering a Fast food chain. Why are they trained to ask that? Good question, I am glad you asked. Because the marginal cost of one drink to the store is between 5 & 15 cents. So even if they charge you 20 cents more they are still making money. |
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17 Apr 12 - 03:08 PM (#3339639) Subject: RE: BS: Combo price my a** From: GUEST,Eliza I'm not too keen on MacDonalds, but my husband quite likes one occasionally. When you go up to the service point and ask for a quarterpounder-with-cheese they always ask "Is that a meal?" I'm always tempted to answer "No, it's a horrible damp bun with muck in it." (I've learned that they mean, "Do you want hard, matchstick chips and a fizzy chemical 'drink' with that?") But at least it's quite cheap really, for a snack. |
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17 Apr 12 - 03:17 PM (#3339643) Subject: RE: BS: Combo price my a** From: GUEST,Eliza I forgot to add that the first time I went in there, the lassie asked "Do you want it to go?" I almost answered, "Yes, take it away, it looks horrid!" Wherever do they get these strange expressions from? USA I suppose. Here, we'd say "Take away, or eat in?" (Which tempts me to say, "Yes, take it away please. I really don't fancy it!") |
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17 Apr 12 - 03:19 PM (#3339645) Subject: RE: BS: Combo price my a** From: Jack the Sailor In France it is the Royal with cheese. |
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17 Apr 12 - 03:38 PM (#3339653) Subject: RE: BS: Combo price my a** From: gnu JtS... they are instructed to ask? Seriously? Glad I got outta bed this morn. |
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17 Apr 12 - 03:46 PM (#3339658) Subject: RE: BS: Combo price my a** From: Jack the Sailor Yes and people come by posing as customers to test their response. I did it once. The pay was about 10 dollars. |
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18 Apr 12 - 02:46 PM (#3340027) Subject: RE: BS: Combo price my a** From: gnu Do you want a hot apple pie with that? |
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18 Apr 12 - 03:01 PM (#3340036) Subject: RE: BS: Combo price my a** From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp You shoulda done what I do, Bill. Jut give 'em "the look". They shut up and do exactly what I want after I give 'em..."the look". And if "the look" don't work, well, there's always the tommy gun, right? - Chongo |