A good question. If Fazoli’s were wanting to increase proffit, this would make more sense. The average person isn’t going to be too concerned about a 25 cent increase on an entire entree and will most likely still order the dish regardless.

Although it’s only 25 cents, many people will choose not to get breadsticks merely of principle. I suppose their plan perhaps is not to neccessarly make more money from the extra charge itself. Maybe their idea is to lower costs cutting their breadstick output. This will also leave more employees to tend to, say, scrubbing the toilets rather than roaming around the dining area offering breadsticks to customers who mostly have had their fill of them.

This seems more practical for the company, but less friendly to us. More coorperate, you could say..

“Sun Capital Partners Inc. stated that, “Why should we give breadsticks out for free when McDonald’s doesn’t give their fries out for free?” McDonald’s, however, never offered their fries for free, nor created the expectation that they would be free.”

I think they would improve things greatly by spelling out–even in fine print on the placemats–the exact meaning of “unlimited breadstickst”

Like, the dude will come out at least every 15 minutes and give everyody a maximum of 2 breadsticks each time. At least then you’d know what to expect, whether you’re paying for it explicitly or not.