Arby's — Restaurant in Painesville

I don't go to Arby's often but I go through phases where I'll frequent them often, I think this is true for many people. However, I wasn't able to satisfy this last phase and even though I was crazy Arby's frequently over the last couple months, I found somewhere else to go.

I'm pretty simple in my orders from there. I usually get a ham slider or two, curly fries, and some cheese cups for my fries.

Since I can remember going to Arby's, my entire life (in my 30s), I would get a curly fries and a 2oz plastic cup if cheese completely full. Recently, they haven't even been half full. The last time, it looked like they smeared some cheese along the walls of the cup gave it to me.

I asked the employees, it may have been a manager, I honestly dont known but he explained their standard is to provide 0.75oz of cheese in this 2oz cheese cup and charge $0.59 for it.

I always used to order 2 full cups (2oz) of cheese for a large order of fries. So to get the 4oz of cheese I want, I have to order 6 cups of cheese which would get me 4.5oz. To satisfy my historic order of 30 years, I would now need to order: • large curly fry $2.69 • 6 cups of 0.75oz ($0.59) each cheese $3.54 This order totals $6.23

I spoke with a long time friend who works for Arby's and asked him if this is correct. He is only an hourly employee but he's worked for Arby's a long time and he is pretty sure the 0.75oz is the standard but no one follows it because its obsurb.

I will admit to really liking the cheese but I think it's unfair to be penalized because of it.

I'm not sure how much they're saving or losing because of this adherence to their standards but I can tell you they've lost my business which equals around 15 visits a year over the past 30 years and I'm sure I am not the only one.

Oh, and I gave them 2 stars because the food is good but I can get good food which is ALSO reasonably priced...

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