{"id":712978,"date":"2010-04-09T11:10:55","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T15:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10004306"},"modified":"2010-04-09T04:08:24","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T08:08:24","slug":"ruby-tuesday-will-pay-you-fifty-cents-to-eat-this-sandwich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/712978","title":{"rendered":"Ruby Tuesday Will Pay You Fifty Cents To Eat This Sandwich"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

The economics of the restaurant business are strange and confusing. But Dave writes that he couldn’t help but find this deal at Ruby Tuesday amusing. You can have a nice salad bar lunch for $7.99…or some mini sandwiches or burgers and fries along with salad bar access for $7.99. After 3 p.m., the price for the salad bar goes up fifty cents…but the price of the sandwiches does not.<\/p>\n

I noticed this strange pricing issue on the Ruby Tuesdays menu. Their new Pimento Cheese Sandwich minis item (available in the Combinations section) is $7.99 with the salad bar. The salad bar, itself, is $7.99 ($8.49 after 3 p.m.). So basically, you get the sandwiches for free until 3… and after 3 they PAY YOU fifty cents to take the sandwiches in addition to the salad bar! <\/p>\n

If you go to Ruby Tuesdays for dinner just for the salad bar, order the Pimento Cheese Sandwich Minis combo and have them hold the sandwiches to save fifty cents.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"sammich.jpg\"<\/a>
<\/p>\n

(The item with just the salad bar is cut off of Dave’s picture, but it is on the menu<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Asking them to hold the sandwiches will probably make your server’s brain explode, but I dare someone to try this and take the sandwiches home. <\/p>\n

I remember having this argument with my parents in a Ponderosa restaurant circa 1995.<\/p>\n

Mom<\/strong>: Order a steak. Steak with the salad bar is only $1 more than just the salad bar, which you always get.
\nMe:<\/strong> But I don’t eat steak.
\nDad:<\/strong> I’ll eat the $1 steak.
\nMe:<\/strong> *exaggerated teenage sigh and eyeroll* FINE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The economics of the restaurant business are strange and confusing. But Dave writes that he couldn’t help but find this deal at Ruby Tuesday amusing. You can have a nice salad bar lunch for $7.99…or some mini sandwiches or burgers and fries along with salad bar access for $7.99. After 3 p.m., the price for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2758,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-712978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2ZtE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}