No but like seriously, why are vegan and vegetarian options always MORE expensive at restaurants. Whenever I cook my self, the meat is BY FAR the most expensive part of any meal. Meanwhile stuff like soy strips are DIRT CHEAP, not to mention they last basically forever!
The canteen I go to for lunch actually sells the meatless meals for 2/3 of the price, always a taunting reminder. Like hell yea, that’s how ya convert me!
Specific example:
At a pizza restaurant I worked at, certain toppings were considered “premium” and cost extra compared to, for example, pepperoni.
One of those was chorizo. Compared to every other topping except maybe onions, it was by far the cheapest on a per-weight basis for us to buy. The problem was that we couldn’t buy it packaged in amounts for a single pizza, and once we opened the package the health department required us to throw it away after a certain amount of time.
Chorizo was just popular enough for us to keep it on the menu, but not so popular that we didn’t end up always throwing away some of each package.