The Meal Ordeal

My friend Meredith had heard about this mock service going on at a TGIFridays that is getting ready to open in our area. The food was free; they just requested a $5 donation to a charity. We decided to go because hey, a meal for $5 sounds great! We didn't know there would be so many rules. When we arrived, we were given a menu and told that some of the pages had been removed. (Different menus had different pages) Unfortunately, we didn't have the steak page. Our pages were appetizers, chicken/pasta, salads, and burgers/sandwiches. We saw the table beside us eating steak which is how we know that different menus had different pages. We were only given one menu for the two of us. We also were told that we had to order from different categories. Example: if Meredith ordered from the pasta section, then I couldn't order something from the pasta section as well. Also, we get either an appetizer to split or a dessert to split. Ok, fine, we can handle that. We look at the desserts and nothing is really appealing so we go for the appetizer except the appetizer we picked could only be served to tables of three or more people...go figure. Then I had to order my entree three times before I hit something that they weren't out of. The picture is what I had. After we were eating, we had an idea on how to beat the system. If you ever go to one of these things, see if they let you order soup or a side salad (the lady beside us had a side salad) and go for the dessert!!