2 for 1 restaurant deals con

Lassiegal

Has anyone noticed how, on a 2 for 1 deal where there are 4+ diners on one bill, that the pairings are made to benefit the restaurant's pocket? At a Marston's pub recently the four on my table ordered food costing approx £16 (2), £14 (1) and £10 (1). The restaurant gave the £14 and £10 meals free and charged the 2 most expensive when they could have paired the two £16 meals (£16 off) and then the other two (£10 off) giving a total of £26 off instead of the £24 that they calculated. Apparently it could have been done the other, cheaper, way but we needed to state this before ordering - or at lest before the bill was presented. Beware. I wonder if they donate this extra profit to the staff? I doubt it.

pappa_golf

yes ONE meal gets ONE free , usually the cheaper meal , so you should have used a bit of common and gone


16 + 10


14 + 10


and after all that confusion you could indeed have saved £2.

daytona0

Could have been worse, you could have ended up paying for the whole lot without an offer being available...

DCFC79

Lassiegal wrote: »

Has anyone noticed how, on a 2 for 1 deal where there are 4+ diners on one bill, that the pairings are made to benefit the restaurant's pocket? At a Marston's pub recently the four on my table ordered food costing approx £16 (2), £14 (1) and £10 (1). The restaurant gave the £14 and £10 meals free and charged the 2 most expensive when they could have paired the two £16 meals (£16 off) and then the other two (£10 off) giving a total of £26 off instead of the £24 that they calculated. Apparently it could have been done the other, cheaper, way but we needed to state this before ordering - or at lest before the bill was presented. Beware. I wonder if they donate this extra profit to the staff? I doubt it.

Did anyone else have a grievance with this or is it just you ?

Its pretty normal for the cheapest meal option to be given free in these 2 for 1. Ive been to marstons before with no issues and ordered meals in the 2 for 1.

teddysmum

It is the same when supermarkets have this offer on a range of products, such as biscuits, but it does clearly say they the free products will be the cheapest, so if (on BOGOF) you bought two at £1 and two at 50p, you would pay £2.The way round this is to buy the like price items in a separate transaction, thus paying £1.50.

Pollycat

teddysmum wrote: »

It is the same when supermarkets have this offer on a range of products, such as biscuits, but it does clearly say they the free products will be the cheapest, so if (on BOGOF) you bought two at £1 and two at 50p, you would pay £2.The way round this is to buy the like price items in a separate transaction, thus paying £1.50.

Boots tills were programmed to do this at one time, I used to group same priced items together & say 'I"ll pay for this, have this free. Pay for this, have that free' but was told they've changed their system and it now works in the customer's favour.

Doesn't stop me checking my receipt every time though.:rotfl:

I think in the OP's situation, I wouldn't have assumed that the till would work in my favour, I would have checked before paying.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

I am off out to get the popcorn, I'll be some time! In the mean time, my cat will speak a few words for the could not care less.

It's a business, it makes money. it is always the cheapest item free!

Tigsteroonie

Pollycat wrote: »

Boots tills were programmed to do this at one time, I used to group same priced items together & say 'I"ll pay for this, have this free. Pay for this, have that free' but was told they've changed their system and it now works in the customer's favour.

I can remember shopping in BHS a couple of Christmases ago when they had a 3-for-2 offer, and the staff were actually making a point of going through your entire shopping basket to work out how to put them through the tills to save the customer the most money!! It caused long queues at the till, but I wasn't complaining when I realised why :money:

Takeaway_Addict

Lassiegal wrote: »

Has anyone noticed how, on a 2 for 1 deal where there are 4+ diners on one bill, that the pairings are made to benefit the restaurant's pocket? At a Marston's pub recently the four on my table ordered food costing approx £16 (2), £14 (1) and £10 (1). The restaurant gave the £14 and £10 meals free and charged the 2 most expensive when they could have paired the two £16 meals (£16 off) and then the other two (£10 off) giving a total of £26 off instead of the £24 that they calculated. Apparently it could have been done the other, cheaper, way but we needed to state this before ordering - or at lest before the bill was presented. Beware. I wonder if they donate this extra profit to the staff? I doubt it.

Seriously?

Did you take the time to read the t&c's where no doubt it will say cheapest one free and as such you should have asked to pay seperately.

pendragon_arther

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth wrote: »

I am off out to get the popcorn, I'll be some time! In the mean time, my cat will speak a few words for the could not care less.

It's a business, it makes money. it is always the cheapest item free!

Popcorn my butt. You've gone out to quaff 10 pints of wallop

midnitegremlin

This is actually a really good point. Whilst it's nearly always going to be the cheapest of the two meals for free, asking for seperate bills means that you won't end up with the cheapest 2 of the 4 for free. It CAN make quite a difference.

Add, of course, that it's not really "free" because the £16 meal would probablt be like £8.99 if it wasn't on the deal .