Modern Vespa

That is funny because I was in Vermont in the 1970's and worked at McDonalds in Burlington for a bit when they still had cash registers that you punched prices into. Since we knew the entire menu and prices by heart, our game at the counter was to add things in our head as the customer ordered them and quote the total price within a few seconds.
Now you'd get fired if you tried that! The food ain't as good either!
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I also gave up trying to use coupons with special rules that cashiers and managers never seem to get right, like at a restaurant with a buy one entree get one free (or X% amount off), on an item of equal or lesser value up to a $9 value. Having entrees of different prices for a party of 3 or more seems to always screw them up. I tried to explain how "equal or lessor" doesn't mean they can just apply the discount on the lowest price entree. They seemed to think that "lessor" meant they should apply the discount to the lowest price. No, that's not how it works. When I told them that the discount applies to the "second highest" entree, it was like I was speaking a foreign language to them or like trying to explain algebra and logic to five year olds. "What is this strange second highest thing of which you speak"

Here's a work around. Just take your highest priced item then take take another item and "dummy it up" to the highest priced item and take the discount off or either one. Hmmm...this may end up being too confusing...skip the coupon.