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Always grinds my gears that there's no discount for asking no meat when that's generally the most expensive ingredient.
Some chain restaurants seem to adopt some sort of "slight discount for the vegan option" variable, I assume due to this, which I'm sure they make even more margins on than the meat versions if only because a lot of vegan substitute meat keeps a lot better than it's meat-meat counterparts and you have less write-off to compensate for.
I think for anything non-chain it's mostly small business tyrant ideology where they either add a sin tax to vegan food because they're mad as fuck at having to do it to stay in business or, and I think this is the majority of them, all price and cost calculations are entirely vibes based anyhow and since we all know vegan is expensive, surcharge it is. I base this entirely on the fact that whenever you find vegan food that isn't purposefully vegan, because the dish just is, they never charge extra and this translates across all cuisines I've ever tried in a gastro establishment.
Small carveout here for people who realize vegans are shit-outta-luck some places and then charge extra, which I think is shitty, but at least makes economical sense. Feels more honest.
On the other hand, sometimes I stumble across a vegan option at a restaurant I would never expect to have them and they seem to take some sort of "we keep some packets of vegan protein in the freezer and whenever somebody actually orders this we just dump the whole package in" approach which leads to things like getting 25 falafels on your bowl.
Yeah the ones that stick out in my mind are the items listed as veggie but they do wild things like putting broccoli and cauliflower in the burrito, like they're either openly antagonistic or gave it so little thought they just spend 5 seconds thinking "What do these people enjoy? Yeah just grab whatever is green idk and then charge them .50 cents less."
No I don't want a cauliflower beet quinoa burrito, just give me the same shit you make for all the carnists but with beans or seitan or smth instead of the animal products c'mon. There are 50 billion substitutes that would actually taste good and aren't randomly selected vegetables
Guess it's one of the hazards inherent in eating at "white people taco" places. I'm actually jealous that they charge you less wherever you are, vegan or general veg options are often the same price or more expensive here...