More than you asked for.

Today I had dinner in the Harrison dining hall, not my favorite place to have dinner but it was close and free. One stand had a fried fish burger with some special fries, the only thing I wanted were the fries. So, I the lady nicely, could I only have the fries please? I don’t want the burger. Her response was that they only would come together, I was surprised. She said she wasn’t allowed to give the fries away on their own. I stressed that I wouldn’t eat the burger, and that I would just put it right back in front of her face. And so it happened, she nicely made a burger and put the fries on my plate and gave it to me, I took the burger off and put it in front of her face and walked away. A lesson in how to waste food, given by Americans. No wonder you waste 40% of your food every year.
                Although you can consider this funny or just extremely stupid, I thought about it in a different way. What if you give people more than what they ask for? Does it make them happy or not? Most of the times yes, for example if you’re buying clothes and at checkout you see that an extra shirt is added for free, everyone would like that. I think in the case of the food it was a little different because I clearly said that I didn’t want it. But still, be careful that you don’t give the customer too much, they may not like it.