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.