Friday, October 30, 2009
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Sunday, October 25, 2009
Why the "Sandwich Queen" is Always Smiling
A couple of days ago we stopped by "Sandwich Queen" (the name has been changed to protect the ridiculed) on King Street by University and decided on ordering original chicken sandwiches. Price $4.49 for the sandwich only or $6.59 for the "value meal". I put "value meal" in parenthesis for reasons that will soon be apparent. While waiting to order we see the following sign hanging from the ceiling. 
So I do some quick math in my head and decide that the "value meal" isn't actually that much of a "value" ($6.59) with this special going on and we're better off ordering the sandwich only and "adding" ($4.49+$1.99=$6.48) to our sandwich instead. Yeah I know, it is only 11 cents, but we were ordering two so that is 22 cents and that is almost 25 cents which is 1/4 of a whole dollar! Anyways, so we proceed up to the counter and place our order. We would like three original chicken sandwiches, sandwich only and add two of those (points to sign) drink and fries please. Confused look on cashier's face. It didn't help that English was probably not her first language, and after a bit of wrangling she gives us a total price. Which didn't look quite right so we asked if she got our order right. Which it wasn't for a few reasons one of which was her not understanding that we didn't want the "value meal" but instead wanted to "add a drink and fries". Eventually a manager comes by and asks what the problem is. We explain to her that we want sandwich onlys and want to add a drink and fries for $1.99. Her reply was, why don't we just get the "value meal" because it is cheaper. We tell her that the value meal isn't really cheaper because if you add $1.99 to $4.49 it is $6.48 which is less than $6.59. She then tells us that the "add" is only ONE of the items. In other words, it is $1.99 to add a small drink OR $1.99 to add a small fries OR $1.99 to add a small onion rings. So we would pay more if we wanted to add both a drink and a fries. So we concede that that is what THEIR special is and I proceed to tell her she should fix her sign because it is not correct. She nods her head and says yes that is a problem. Ok, so now we're waiting for our food. I glance over at the regular menu and see that a small drink costs $1.89, 10 cents CHEAPER than the "add" special offer thing. So basically what they are saying is that if you get a sandwich and add a drink we'll charge you 10 cents MORE to do that. But if you order just a drink you can get it for the regular price. WTH?! The kicker is, while we're pondering over the sheer stupidity of the situation and how wrong the manager of the location could be. A friend of ours comes by and tells us that he just got 8 small french fry orders for $1.00! Make a $1.00 donation and get 8 coupons for small fries which he did and redeemed right there. D'oh! Needless to say, there will be a call going into the 1-866-42-4745 number to tell them "How was it?"
So I do some quick math in my head and decide that the "value meal" isn't actually that much of a "value" ($6.59) with this special going on and we're better off ordering the sandwich only and "adding" ($4.49+$1.99=$6.48) to our sandwich instead. Yeah I know, it is only 11 cents, but we were ordering two so that is 22 cents and that is almost 25 cents which is 1/4 of a whole dollar! Anyways, so we proceed up to the counter and place our order. We would like three original chicken sandwiches, sandwich only and add two of those (points to sign) drink and fries please. Confused look on cashier's face. It didn't help that English was probably not her first language, and after a bit of wrangling she gives us a total price. Which didn't look quite right so we asked if she got our order right. Which it wasn't for a few reasons one of which was her not understanding that we didn't want the "value meal" but instead wanted to "add a drink and fries". Eventually a manager comes by and asks what the problem is. We explain to her that we want sandwich onlys and want to add a drink and fries for $1.99. Her reply was, why don't we just get the "value meal" because it is cheaper. We tell her that the value meal isn't really cheaper because if you add $1.99 to $4.49 it is $6.48 which is less than $6.59. She then tells us that the "add" is only ONE of the items. In other words, it is $1.99 to add a small drink OR $1.99 to add a small fries OR $1.99 to add a small onion rings. So we would pay more if we wanted to add both a drink and a fries. So we concede that that is what THEIR special is and I proceed to tell her she should fix her sign because it is not correct. She nods her head and says yes that is a problem. Ok, so now we're waiting for our food. I glance over at the regular menu and see that a small drink costs $1.89, 10 cents CHEAPER than the "add" special offer thing. So basically what they are saying is that if you get a sandwich and add a drink we'll charge you 10 cents MORE to do that. But if you order just a drink you can get it for the regular price. WTH?! The kicker is, while we're pondering over the sheer stupidity of the situation and how wrong the manager of the location could be. A friend of ours comes by and tells us that he just got 8 small french fry orders for $1.00! Make a $1.00 donation and get 8 coupons for small fries which he did and redeemed right there. D'oh! Needless to say, there will be a call going into the 1-866-42-4745 number to tell them "How was it?"
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Happy Halloween from @tadasauce (Starring @jlieu @Melissa808 @ParkRat @NctrnlBst and @tadasauce)
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Breakfast at Aloha BBQ (Kapahulu, Hawaii)
Eggs, bacon and rice.
Vienna sausage, eggs and rice
Ham with a couple of bacons with rice. All of the above. $3.75 each! YUM!
Sunday, October 18, 2009
New Food and Products Show
This is what the line looked like to buy tickets at 10:00am when the show was going to open. It moved relatively fast once it started going though so that was the good thing.
The dude in the plastic glove used to give cookies for Christmas that were SUPER ONO! Now I know why. He stole them from his Aunty! Seriously though, her cookies are legendary!
Look who we bumped into! @kaizenhawaii and @loodge! And he's wearing his birthday shirt. Not to be confused with him in his birthday suit.
Mini animal crackers! Oh noooo! No eat me! I just one babyyyy!
This machine was literally shooting out the multi-grain thingy.
HEART Shaped kaki mochi! Now I can really <3 kaki mochi!
Oooooo....makes my butt all tingly just thinking about it.
Wally Amos! Mr. Noname! YUM Cookies for sure.
The two sisters are channeling. They both wore the same color blouses!
All in all a fun morning. Got out of there a little after Noon with bentos and SPAM musubis from Taniokas who had a booth in the show. Didn't seem as big as prior years when we went, but also wasn't as crazy crowded too.
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
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