And another point in her favor: This is New York City we’re talking about. I wouldn’t be surprised if the hamburger itself was $20-$30.
So what’s an extra three bucks for a slice of cheese?
I used to eat lunch with a guy that almost always ordered a BLT. One day, there was mayo on only one slice of bread. The day after, he requested mayo on both slices. When the bill came, they’d charged him an extra dollar for the mayo. He made a point of telling the cashier that the dollar came out of the waitress’s tip.
Cost of a subway trip. Guy did a cost/benefit analysis, and decided cheese on his burger was not worth the money better spent on getting to work. Takes me a gallon of gas to get to work, I do the same thing, all the time, based on that logic. Wished I had started thinking like that, when I was young; my bank account has never been in better shape.
Freegards !