Marino's Seafood Fish & Chips

Marino's Seafood Fish & Chips had been built in 1971 to be an Arthur Treacher's Fish & Chips.

In 1985, Arthur Treacher's Fish & Chips left that building and Marino's Seafood Fish & Chips took over that building [which looks pretty much the same except that the signs naming the restaurant have been changed and that the large lamp in front of the building no longer rotates].

I arrived only a few minutes after their 11:00 a.m. opening. The restaurant had been quite crowded, well before the traditional "noontime rush," because it had been filled with laborers who had been working on nearby outside construction projects who had come in to eat [and also to recover from the icy weather that morning].

I decided to order the fairly-traditional [at least for a "fish and chips" place] Fish Platter [two pieces of fish, chips, two hushpuppies, and coleslaw or macaroni salad].

The person at the ordering counter told me that their "special" that day was that exact same Fish Platter. But I didn't actually get a discount.

When she asked me what drink I wanted and I told her that I did not want a drink, she reduced my price from a higher price [that evidently would have used to pay for my drink] back to the regular price of $7.90.

My understanding of the word "special" has always been that you pay less for the same thing or that you get more without having to pay any more.