BS: Combo price my a**

Subject: BS: Combo price my a**
From: frogprince
Date: 15 Apr 12 - 02:24 PM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: Combo price my a**
From: gnu
Date: 15 Apr 12 - 02:30 PM

Give em hell, froggy!

Subject: RE: BS: Combo price my a**
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 15 Apr 12 - 02:32 PM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: Combo price my a**
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 15 Apr 12 - 02:33 PM

usually a 747....

Subject: RE: BS: Combo price my a**
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 15 Apr 12 - 04:06 PM

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!

Subject: RE: BS: Combo price my a**
From: gnu
Date: 16 Apr 12 - 02:18 PM

Sooo... froggy. Did ya get a free Whopper? If so, I might try it too. I could use a new hockey puck.

Subject: RE: BS: Combo price my a**
From: Bill D
Date: 16 Apr 12 - 02:43 PM

?? 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.)

Subject: RE: BS: Combo price my a**
From: gnu
Date: 16 Apr 12 - 02:56 PM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: Combo price my a**
From: frogprince
Date: 16 Apr 12 - 05:02 PM

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

Subject: RE: BS: Combo price my a**
From: GUEST,999
Date: 16 Apr 12 - 05:47 PM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: Combo price my a**
From: Bill D
Date: 16 Apr 12 - 06:19 PM

LOL, frogprince. It is quite amazing how they can automate those email responses to say NOTHING in 150 words.

Subject: RE: BS: Combo price my a**
From: gnu
Date: 16 Apr 12 - 06:35 PM

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/

Subject: RE: BS: Combo price my a**
From: frogprince
Date: 16 Apr 12 - 06:42 PM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: Combo price my a**
From: gnu
Date: 16 Apr 12 - 06:58 PM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: Combo price my a**
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 16 Apr 12 - 07:28 PM

I go to Wendys and get 2 Jr cheeze burger deluxe and throw away two of the buns.

Subject: RE: BS: Combo price my a**
From: gnu
Date: 16 Apr 12 - 07:32 PM

Ii hear ya, JtS. Smart shopper, you are.

Subject: RE: BS: Combo price my a**
From: Bill D
Date: 16 Apr 12 - 07:45 PM

I just got a flyer from Burger King announcing "they now deliver" in my area....You can order HEAPS of stuff by the bucket.

Subject: RE: BS: Combo price my a**
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 16 Apr 12 - 07:48 PM

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!

Subject: RE: BS: Combo price my a**
From: gnu
Date: 16 Apr 12 - 10:27 PM

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?

Subject: RE: BS: Combo price my a**
From: Beer
Date: 16 Apr 12 - 11:35 PM

The Guinness before mass was so they could sleep through the long boring sermons.
ad.

Subject: RE: BS: Combo price my a**
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 17 Apr 12 - 01:15 AM

I have turkey burgers at home, without the buns.

Subject: RE: BS: Combo price my a**
From: Allan C.
Date: 17 Apr 12 - 06:09 AM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: Combo price my a**
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 17 Apr 12 - 06:53 AM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: Combo price my a**
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 17 Apr 12 - 12:11 PM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: Combo price my a**
From: gnu
Date: 17 Apr 12 - 02:47 PM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: Combo price my a**
From: Will Fly
Date: 17 Apr 12 - 02:56 PM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: Combo price my a**
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 17 Apr 12 - 02:58 PM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: Combo price my a**
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 17 Apr 12 - 03:08 PM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: Combo price my a**
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 17 Apr 12 - 03:17 PM

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!")

Subject: RE: BS: Combo price my a**
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 17 Apr 12 - 03:19 PM

In France it is the Royal with cheese.

Subject: RE: BS: Combo price my a**
From: gnu
Date: 17 Apr 12 - 03:38 PM

JtS... they are instructed to ask? Seriously? Glad I got outta bed this morn.

Subject: RE: BS: Combo price my a**
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 17 Apr 12 - 03:46 PM

Yes and people come by posing as customers to test their response. I did it once. The pay was about 10 dollars.

Subject: RE: BS: Combo price my a**
From: gnu
Date: 18 Apr 12 - 02:46 PM

Do you want a hot apple pie with that?

Subject: RE: BS: Combo price my a**
From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp
Date: 18 Apr 12 - 03:01 PM

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