Clicky Poll: Salad Bar

halfpintaggie · November 2011

A deli has both a salad bar (you build your own salad) & a salad counter (worker builds the salad for you). Salad bar is sold based on weight. Salad counter is a set price (roughly $7 per salad).

Co-worker just informed me that to save some money at the salad bar she'll pay for her salad & then go back to the bar & add her dressing. There's some debate about whether or not this is stealing.

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dana92504 · November 2011

wow, what a tight wad

TexasSmith · November 2011

How is this not stealing? You pay by weight, and add more weight after you've paid. That's stealing.

And damn, I mean how much dressing do you use that this could actually save you a substantial amount of money to make it worth doing that?

halfpintaggie · November 2011

dana#s & texassmith, I couldn't agree more with both of you.

startingover2010 · November 2011

I voted based on my instinct, but at the salad counter with the set price, does that not include dressing? Or is she getting extra dressing when she goes back to the salad bar?

halfpintaggie · November 2011

startingover2010:
I voted based on my instinct, but at the salad counter with the set price, does that not include dressing? Or is she getting extra dressing when she goes back to the salad bar?

The set-price counter salads include dressing. She doesn't buy the counter salad, only the salad bar salad. When she goes to pay for her salad, it's completely dry. Then she goes & ladles on her dressing.

Kimmer123 · November 2011

I thought the same thing as TexasSmith. How much dressing does she use that she is saving that much money?? I like a LOT of dressing on my salad, but I can't imagine that she would need more than they would give her if she just asked for extra. And what would they charge for extra dressing... $1 maybe??

startingover2010 · November 2011

halfpintaggie:

startingover2010:
I voted based on my instinct, but at the salad counter with the set price, does that not include dressing? Or is she getting extra dressing when she goes back to the salad bar?

The set-price counter salads include dressing. She doesn't buy the counter salad, only the salad bar salad. When she goes to pay for her salad, it's completely dry. Then she goes & ladles on her dressing.

Ok. I misread it the first time. I still voted the "right" way though. )

*BlueAvocado* · November 2011

That's definitely stealing. At those self serve frozen yogurt places that charge by weight - you can't just get your ice cream, pay - and then come back up and shovel on the toppings afterward....and those weigh a heck of a lot more than frikkin salad dressing!

That sort of shadiness reminds me of the people that I see at HEB who, when using the scales that print out the price label for you, hold their bag of produce off the scale a bit so it doesn't register the full weight...so they sneak through 3lbs of oranges for the price of 2.895 lbs....I'd feel pretty crappy doing something blatantly wrong just to save a few cents.

AF84 · November 2011

TexasSmith:
How is this not stealing? You pay by weight, and add more weight after you've paid. That's stealing.
And damn, I mean how much dressing do you use that this could actually save you a substantial amount of money to make it worth doing that?

Um, my very first thought exactly. If paying for salad dressing is an issue maybe you shouldn't be eating out in the first place.

rayskit10 · November 2011

And part of what really chaps me about this is, WE all end up paying for her salad dressing in the end when the company has to look at their profit margin. She is only stealing 85 cents but if 100 people do that 2 times a week, it starts to show in the bottom line and causes prices increases which honest people pick up. Grrr.

halfpintaggie · November 2011

rayskit10:
And part of what really chaps me about this is, WE all end up paying for her salad dressing in the end when the company has to look at their profit margin. She is only stealing 85 cents but if 100 people do that 2 times a week, it starts to show in the bottom line and causes prices increases which honest people pick up. Grrr.

Agreed. I'd love to hear from the 10% of voters who think this is ok, b/c I just cannot see how this is justified.

TexasHarmony · November 2011

rayskit10:
And part of what really chaps me about this is, WE all end up paying for her salad dressing in the end when the company has to look at their profit margin. She is only stealing 85 cents but if 100 people do that 2 times a week, it starts to show in the bottom line and causes prices increases which honest people pick up. Grrr.

Yes. Very annoying.

FinallyKrisB · November 2011

halfpintaggie:

rayskit10:
And part of what really chaps me about this is, WE all end up paying for her salad dressing in the end when the company has to look at their profit margin. She is only stealing 85 cents but if 100 people do that 2 times a week, it starts to show in the bottom line and causes prices increases which honest people pick up. Grrr.

Agreed. I'd love to hear from the 10% of voters who think this is ok, b/c I just cannot see how this is justified.

I was just wondering why the people that voted that it was ok don't care to share their logic.

AggieDee · November 2011

Our salad bar does not charge for the dressing. There are little to go cups with lids that you can put the dressing in so that it doesn't add weight to the salad. Is there anything like that around maybe?

FutureMrsJW · November 2011

halfpintaggie:
rayskit10:
And part of what really chaps me about this is, WE all end up paying for her salad dressing in the end when the company has to look at their profit margin. She is only stealing 85 cents but if 100 people do that 2 times a week, it starts to show in the bottom line and causes prices increases which honest people pick up. Grrr.

Agreed. I'd love to hear from the 10% of voters who think this is ok, b/c I just cannot see how this is justified.

I agree with you. I can't see how it can be justified either.

halfpintaggie · November 2011

AggieDee:
Our salad bar does not charge for the dressing. There are little to go cups with lids that you can put the dressing in so that it doesn't add weight to the salad. Is there anything like that around maybe?

Nope. The only salad dressing available is on the salad bar, directly next to the meat & cheese.

aprilprincess · November 2011

TexasSmith:

How is this not stealing? You pay by weight, and add more weight after you've paid. That's stealing.

And damn, I mean how much dressing do you use that this could actually save you a substantial amount of money to make it worth doing that?

ditto! even for DH who makes his salad unrecognizable because it's smothered with dressing I can't imagine it weighing much.

michellebelle · November 2011

You can throw one of the "not stealings" out of the mix. When I read it, I was thinking along the lines of startingover above - that she bought the counter salad and then went and added dressing. I was thinking that was NBD. But if she is doing the salad bar, and pinching pennies on the cost of dressing, that IS stealing. Just a smidge, but like pp posted every smidge a hundred times or more adds up.

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