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Old Nov 7, 2018 | 8:03 pm
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Originally Posted by exerda
I always wonder when I order a plain cheeseburger at the server who asks, "Do you want cheese on that?" Would I have ordered a cheeseburger if I didn't? (In-N-Out seems to get that; I can order a plain cheeseburger and not get interrogated about the cheese.) Regardless, the "meat, cheese, bun; nothing else" approach seems like a good one for future use.
At least they ask. I've ordered plenty of "plain cheeseburgers" and had them served without cheese. It doesn't seem to occur to them that I would have ordered a hamburger if I didn't want cheese, but alas...
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