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Originally Posted by Ksyrup
It's like the salad bar at a grocery store - except there, you can weigh it as you go so you have an idea of what it's going to cost. Here, you weigh it when you pay.
THe bottom line for me is - there's a reason they won't put the ounces on the cups. They want you to fill it up without thinking about how much you are getting. I just find the entire thing to be a shitty business model and refuse to go to those places.
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Have you asked if you could weigh it as you go? There's a bazillion of these places around here -- the first one I went to, they told me how big each of the two cups were (16 oz. and 32 oz. IIRC), and I haven't thought about asking at any of the other places. I'm surprised that they refuse to tell you how big the cup is, but maybe they want to avoid confusion with the units, where a customer will fill it up, and assume it weighs exactly 16 ounces (essentially what Jon was saying, but adding in the idea that "ounces" has two different meanings here). I've never asked to weigh my cup as I go, but I'd imagine they'd let me if I wanted to, so my hunch is that the place you go to is simply run by jerks.
I'm with HB -- it's always bugged me that you have to pay X cents for each additional topping, when the cup is the same size. At a place like this, I can add a little bit of 5-10 toppings in each cup, and I'm living the dream.