Comments on: Free Foods Pulls Terrible Duck Reuben Bait and Switch!

By: Kaz

Kaz — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 19:06:23 +0000

This isn’t the first time they’ve done bait and switch. From their opening to about 6 months later, their raw food buffet was $7 a quarter pound, meaning I could get two items for about $10 and be satisfied. Late last year they altered the price and size of the buffet items $10 for 3 thai wraps, or one piece of lasagna, when I could get both for that initially.

So smaller portions + more $ just pushed me right out of there.

Sorry the duck reuben fans are being priced out of the market. I wouldn’t be surprised if the brisket follows suit.

By: Ecoli

Ecoli — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:03:38 +0000

Duck Reuben was amazing though.

By: Ecoli

Ecoli — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:00:32 +0000

They pulled a switch on me too. Baited me in with the <$10 Brisket and then up-sold me on the Duck Reuben since they ran out of the Brisket. Dubious.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:03:22 +0000

I wrote in my original review/comment that I could handle the duck reuben going up in price.. I mean, it clearly had the taste of high quality ingredients, it took a good few minutes for them to make it fresh (they even corrected their process to make sure it was not pre-made). Organic, natural, hippy-dippy.. whatever type of place this is, it’s usually a bit pricier.. and sadly I don’t usually see a big crowd filling up this place, so if a few bucks more helps them stay afloat, I’m kinda glad because it keeps a quality, non-generic place open.. a quality place that’s really making an effort to excite and innovate midtown lunch… i mean, i gotta checkout this brisket now.
That said, Zack, you’re pretty innovative yourself.. you’ve set the gear in motion for a lot of great eats… take part. Here’s an idea: start a Midtown Lunch Membership Program.. roughly speaking, I’d be happy to pay a little bit for it as long as it hooks us members up with like a 10-20% discount at many of our favorite food joints. And just think, with a discount, how many food items will then justifiably earn your approval (assuming it brings them under $10). I guess my idea is similiar to like the GNC Gold Card program (yes, better living through chemicals!! hey if you can kill yourself with over indulging on cheap hyper-fried chinese food, I can send myself to the grave ingesting items that dont even bio-degrade ;P ) I think restaurants might participate since you’ve helped to amass a real pool of followers… those places seriously owe you. If you are affraid of it creating some sort of conflict of interest (i.e. a slight issue with you making money in the deal) then don’t charge for membership… and the restaurants still owe you and should participate cause it’ll bring them business (or you can charge and just pay me ;P )
cheers.

By: InfoMofo

InfoMofo — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:50:33 +0000

Ugh that is so disappointing. I was actually thinking about getting that sandwich for lunch today, but then I saw this.

By: Lou

Lou — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:08:09 +0000

No surprise that FreeFoods would stoop to that… lol thankfully the one time I tried it was enough…

By: wayne

wayne — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:53:40 +0000

First Certe games the Challenge with a monthly sandwich and a veggie offering, now NotSoFreeFoods fools the fat guy with a price hike

This always happens when you let a chubby disheveled food blogger run things