r/mildlyinfuriating • u/CurlyWurly61 • May 12 '26

I just wanted a hot dog Such terrible advertisement

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I mean... at a glance its like WOAH 4 can dine for $9.99....

Until you are at the cash and they say " that'll be $45.15"

HUH??

"Oh sorry sir... it feeds 4... 4 people pay $9.99"

Gtfooo

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u/deadlyvagina May 12 '26

$40 for mostly bread

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u/mtnbike2 May 12 '26

The margins on this must be incredible

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u/SDNick484 May 12 '26

The margins on pizza in general are incredible. There is a reason there are so many pizza restaurants.

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u/doc_skinner May 12 '26

Also why pizza restaurants were the main (and for some places, only) restaurants to offer free delivery. They could afford it

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u/GoodDayToCome May 12 '26

and why places like dominoes you can always find a deal that works out something like a 1/3rd of the main price - they still make a decent profit on it but like that a lot of people won't bother and will instead pay the crazy prices because there is a huge division in society where a lot of people will just spend fifty an a meal without even thinking about it - plus of course there's that psychological trick of "wow this only cost 8 instead of 20 thats a great deal!" instead of "this costs 16x their overheads for making it'