Gaming the System at the Overpriced Salad Bar
No Dressing (Yet)
Obviously. If this is even a surprise to you, you might be beyond salad bar help. That said, there are a lot of dressing-laden booby traps to avoid, or at least, there are at Forager’s. At the outset, among the baseline lettuce options (more on that later), there’s usually a fully dressed caesar salad. Is this a joke? You’re already starting off with like a $6 minimum. Fuck that. Also, at the end, the little to-go containers for the dressing you can ladle out are “coincidentally” placed weirdly far away, forcing the salad consumer to awkwardly get out of, then back into, the salad line if they want to keep the dressing separate (and thus free). Don’t crack under this vague social pressure. Use the to-go containers.