Secret Recipe

On Friday, my colleagues and I went for lunch at Secret Recipe (at Anchorage). This restaurant has exactly two (2) vegetarian dishes on the menu - a vegetarian spaghetti, and some Japanese noodle dish. HOWEVER when I tried to order, the waiter could only tell me, sorry, the vegetarian dishes are not available!
What absurdity!

I asked what I could eat then, since we came in because there are some vegetarian options. Trying to be helpful, he suggested the prawn arrabiata spaghetti, without the prawns. Normally I would have just nodded and said ok, but that day, I just thought I'd ask, how much it would cost me to have the prawn arrabiata without the prawns.

To my disbelief, he said, we'll charge the same... the same as what? the same as the prawn arrabiata even without the prawns! Erm, the vegetarian spaghetti cost about $2 less than the prawn arriabiata, and I'm going to get charged for the prawns, when I don't want the prawns?

Finally I asked for his manager, who came out to explain, very politely, that they don't have vegetarian dishes because the factory did not send the material. Well, I don't really need to know that, nor do I care - I just want to know that I won't be getting charged for prawns that aren't going to be there! Eventually, he agreed to make a vegetarian spaghetti, but not before repeated warnings that the dish won't be the same as described in the menu!!