Published on 12, July, 2020
How comfortable are you in breaking the unwritten rules of society?
Most of us auties are keen to fit in and hide in plain sight so doing things that are considered wrong is hard for us.
We went out yesterday to a Pizza Hut (daughter's choice as she's just finished uni for the year).
We sat down and started going through the menus and I could not believe the prices being charged for a basic pizza.
£15 for a 9" pizza (I consider that a kid's pizza) and over £20 for an normal pizza. Including drinks, dessert & tip we would be up near £100 for some pizza!!!!
I was stuck for a few seconds - I've never walked out of a restaurant before ordering and I'd be disappointing my daughter - but - Holy Crap! I cannot blow that much cash for a sugary, over-salted, mass-produced garbage. pizza.
I was stuck in glitch-mode for a minute or so until - NO - I can't do it - I can't waste that much money - so we got up with everyone looking at us - the waitress was confused - and we just said thanks but no thanks and we left.
We went along to a very nice Italian restuarant (if I'm paying for expensive pizza, I want a decent pizza) but as we got there 10 minutes before their daytime menu ended, we got the discounted rate - £6.95 for amazing 15" pizzas. Couldn't manage it all - it was great.
Maybe we should stand up for ourselves more often.
Sooooo - What have you done recently to break your programming?
Hey :)
Just as a heads up, most of those restaurants (Pizza Hut, Bella Italia etc) have discounts on (25-50% off), so you can end up paying less for the same food :)
Much love <3
Yep, that's true. Pizza Hut is quite confusing actually, it has loads of confusing discounts, such as 50% off, or a combo of multiple pizzas + snacks + drinks of £30, or buy 1 get 1 free, those kind of deals, and when applied optimally, you might end up spending less than half of the advertised price. When ordering online, there's an automatic program that can help you calculate the cheapest deal. I think you can also ask the waiters there to help you calculate the best deal when dining in. So I highly doubt you would spend near £100 for some pizza. But I agree it's really confusing, and it has tricked many people before. A couple years ago, a friend ordered for a group of friends including me and he didn't know about the discount, so we all ended up paying like £7 for just two slices of pizza.
See, here you can get a medium size pizza for only £5,Or 2 large pizzas + 2 sides + drink for £24.99I'm not advertising for them, but just thought it is useful information incase sometime in the future you or your daughter would like to try. It's not as expensive as your calculations go. Though I'm glad that you were able to find a nice Italian restaurant witha discounted rate.
There are lots of offers for take-away - but in a sit-down Pizza Hut on a Friday evening the are no offers applicable - it would have been close to £100.
It's that that caused us to stand up in front of the whole restaurant and just walk out. They use the powerful social pressure of not making a scene to have the guts to charge so much for what is effectively cheese on toast with tomato sauce.
Even Dominos have cranked up the prices - it used to be BOGOF so 2 large pizzas were £17 but now it's £20 for 2 mediums.