Restaurants are really good at getting people money?

     Have you ever been to a restaurant, ordered a meal, and received something ten times the size of what you thought the meal was going to be? This is the problem with restaurants now a days. The make the dishes cost more due to the increased size of the food, but most people can not eat it all and the food is relatively easy and cheap to make in mass, so they gain profit.  They give lots of bread to fill you up too. Lastly, they also give small portions at extremely fancy restaurants that cost ridiculous amounts of money for a meal that fills you up for about fifteen minutes.
     The meals are in fact gigantic. I went to Mimi's today for breakfast with my grandparents and I ordered the three pancakes meal, but what I got back was more than just some pancakes. I received fruit, eggs, and fruit, which I expected, and three pancakes that, if pancakes had species, would be the blue whale of pancakes. They didn't come on a plate, they came in a giant bowl and the pancakes still climbed halfway up the sides of the bowl. I could barely finish two, along with everything else, which is surprising because when I get a meal I try my very hardest to finish it. My meal was easily the largest at the table and probably doubled the size of the next largest meal. However, this size is not that uncommon, many places will give gigantic serving sizes to make a larger profit.
     On top of that, many places serve bread. They will give the table some bread, not just normal bread, but fancy bread because its a restaurant, and will leave. Then after you are finished with the bread they take it off the table, replace it with some new bread, and ask for your order. They then come back with your food and replace the bread again. Next thing you know, you have had several slices of bread before you food gets to the table and you can only finish about half of it once it is done. Not only that, but the meal is small but expensive, and since they end full they are content. However, they are not full on the food but rather on the four slices of fancy bread they had prior to the actual meal they ordered. The restaurants again have gained a profit.
    Lastly, at extremely fancy restaurants, the servers will bring you a meal that is about a third of what you originally thought it would be. It is dressed up to look amazing and has a fancy name, but in the end it is just a very small meal you paid twenty times more on than you needed to. Also, even if it is not small it is still expensive and is not worth the price. Some of the prices are so expensive I wouldn't eat them even if they were made from unicorn meat.
     Sure, restaurants are good at making money. Sure, they are good at making that money off of everyday people who just want to have a nice meal. Sure, they use cheap tactics to maximize profit, but it is an extremely effective strategy for them. So all of you who go to a restaurant, ask for something extra, something specific, something so picky that it will be nearly impossible to get right, so that way they don't get your money so easily. Beat them at there own game and leave a generous tip for giving them such a hard time.

I want that Dollar!!!

          Today's society is based on money, and people will do almost anything for the right price. People now have been forced to rely on money for everything, without it, you will die or be close to death at all times. Take homeless people for example, they have to beg for a living, not for food or clothes most of the time, but for money. Also, there are people who are born into a wealthy family but have no talents at all or don't care about school. Those people can get away with it because they were born into wealth and don't really have to care about things most people have to.
          There is a price on practically everything that someone doesn't come born with, and even those sometimes cost money.

• Body parts, like hearts, skin, kidneys, and many more body parts.
• Food, from the growing of the food, to the processing of the food, to the actual purchase of the food by the consumer. This includes both restaurants, fast food, and store bought ingredients.
• Books also cost a lot after the several steps it goes through in production until it reaces the consumer.
• Entertainment, like movies, plays, television shows, sports.
• Education costs money as well, from the amount college students must pay, to a teacher's wage, and even to the school supplies students have to buy.
• Many other things cost money too, like clothes, utensils, technology, housing and shelter, furniture, vacations and travel, and many other things.

         However, there are two things that are especially surprising, how cheap people are with their money most of the time, and how there is a price on people lives. First, people are cheap and will do a lot of things to save a dollar or two, like park further away from a stadium than needed, getting something used rather than new, eating less quality food just to name a few. This exemplifies how  important money is to people because people are willing to buy things of poor quality just to save a few bucks so they can spend the money they saved on something else that is cheap. Second, the price of life is different for many people, but there is definitely a price. Insurance companies have a set price they are willing to pay for someones life, hit man charge people amounts of money to kill people too, with a different price depending on the target. Also, as I stated earlier, body parts have a price, and according to the site, http://www.buzzfeed.com/tanyachen/this-is-how-much-your-body-parts-are-actually-worth#.xu2jPpqD8, the price of all the useful body parts combined is $551,473.
          Money today runs everything, and this is no exaggeration. It determines how people can live and whether they can live or not depending on if someone can or can't afford food, shelter, insurances, etc. There is even a price on peoples lives, though widely varying, which shows just how powerful money is. This world shouldn't be so material and money based, but until a better system is created, this is the world we live in.