Out to lunch - anybody home?

At the customer's where I work now, there are restaurants that have quite a strange food policy. Well, strange enough to blog about.

The price of a meal increased to 5,50 € this January. We have a deal with our customer and taxman, otherwise it would cost 7,95 €, which is close to Stockholm prices.

If you have a soup, it'll cost you 4,20 €. If you take a soup with big salad and dessert, the price is 5,50 €, i.e. the same as the basic meal. That's alright, and I have tried that out succesfully sometimes.

BUT(T)... If you are going to have only big salad, it will cost you 5,60 €! In other words, it's 10 cents more expensive than big salad with soup and dessert! That's crazy.

So, if you want to have a big salad a bit cheaper, you can take the soup and the dessert with it and throw them in a garbage can. Does that sound sane to you?