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If I remove ____ from my entree, will it be cheaper?
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The real skill is in keeping a straight face while walking through every permutation, every possible combination, every “but what if.” The server knows the drill. The customer will never actually want the modified version. She just wants to see how far the conversation can go, how many rolls can be analyzed before the final, predictable decision. It’s less about food and more about the ritual, the slow dance of questions and answers that leads right back to where it started.
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No one expects the menu to change. No one thinks the prices will drop after the hundredth question. But the game goes on, because the real win isn’t in the roll or the price. It’s in the performance, the way the customer keeps everyone on their toes, making every order feel like a high-stakes negotiation that ends exactly where it began.
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Some people just like to keep things interesting, one sushi roll at a time.
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Sushi restaurant regular treats every order like a high-stakes negotiation, dissecting each roll, ingredient, and price before settling on her original: ‘This lady is famous for asking (minimum) 10 questions’
A regular customer turns every sushi order into a full-blown interrogation, circling through every possible roll and ingredient combo before finally settling on the original choice, just as she always does.
Servers get all kinds of questions, but this is something else. The menu becomes a battlefield of hypotheticals, each roll dissected and compared, every ingredient weighed and questioned. The customer doesn't just want to know what's in the crunch roll. She wants to know what it would be without the shrimp, what it would be if you swapped the fish, and what it would be if you removed the crunch. The answers never change, but the questions keep coming, each one a fresh round in the never-ending game of menu roulette.
What always strikes me about these stories is it always sound like these people are sort of modern Mowglis, they act in ways that make me think the only possible explanation for their behavior is that they were raised by wolves in the jungle because, how can you spend a lifetime in civilized society and think haggling about ingredients and prices in a sushi restaurant is acceptable behavior?
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