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And what I meant by them not letting me opt out of ordering a drink is when I order the value meal, I don't want to pay the $1.50 for a drink I won't drink, since they don't have the freestyle machines. When I ask them to take the Coke charge off, they won't, so the drink is a useless additional charge I don't want, so I just go somewhere else that has drinks I like.
Why order a meal when you don't want the drink? Just order a hamburger and fries. Then you won't have a useless additional charge of something you don't want.
Our Atlanta food critic ate, and reviewed the BK hotdog. He said it was an Oscar Meyer product, so right away, I knew I'd never try it, I hate their dogs. But the rest of the review was pretty dismal. He said the BK cashier tried to dissuade him from ordering it.
They don't have the freestyle machines at the Burger Kings where I live. If they did, I would still eat there. And what I meant by them not letting me opt out of ordering a drink is when I order the value meal, I don't want to pay the $1.50 for a drink I won't drink, since they don't have the freestyle machines. When I ask them to take the Coke charge off, they won't, so the drink is a useless additional charge I don't want, so I just go somewhere else that has drinks I like.
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Originally Posted by rugrats2001
Of course they won't unbundle the beverage, it's where the entire margin in a value meal is made. The only reason it is rung up as a separate line item is because various taxing authorities tax beverages differently than food purchases. The actual 'discount' in a value meal is pulled from the 90% margin on the soft drink, regardless of what your receipt indicates.
If BK won't unbundle the beverage, fine; offer customers another diet drink than Diet Coke. Because only having Diet Coke as a diet beverage is really shooting themselves in the foot for many customers, I imagine. Although I have only anecdotal evidence, Diet Coke's popularity seems to have decreased significantly since Coke Zero came around and Diet Dr. Pepper is reasonably popular as well. As it is, I, and other customers, won't eat there at all because I don't want to pour my $2.00 drink down the sink.
If BK won't unbundle the beverage, fine; offer customers another diet drink than Diet Coke. Because only having Diet Coke as a diet beverage is really shooting themselves in the foot for many customers, I imagine. Although I have only anecdotal evidence, Diet Coke's popularity seems to have decreased significantly since Coke Zero came around and Diet Dr. Pepper is reasonably popular as well. As it is, I, and other customers, won't eat there at all because I don't want to pour my $2.00 drink down the sink.
The bundled price is the price for the bundle. If you don't want the bundle, and don't want to pay the price for the bundle, then you can certainly order a la carte. You could also ask for bottled water - that's about as "diet" as it gets and it IS an option at Burger King.
In addition, most people who buy at Burger King don't go for the diet soda. They go for the solid foods, and the soda is an after-thought. So BK adds it in for a nominal fee into a bundled price. So does McDonald's, and Wendy's and every other fast food joint in the country. The purpose of a bundle is to get you to order things you wouldn't normally order, in the hopes that you'll be fooled into thinking you're saving money.
Just skip the drink, as for a kid's cup of tap water, and save yourself the 20 cents by ordering a la carte.
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