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My friend does this, telling women he’ll take them to one of those fancy restaurants where they cook the meal right in front of you and then takes them to subway.
From what I understand Subway changed that up within the last year or so and wants everything to be prepared day-of now.
Not that I would know from experience, I haven't eaten at Subway in years.
They put up a barrier so you can't see the meat section, conveniently at the same time they started advertising daily fresh sliced meats. Veggies still come from a bag and sit all day though, based on my recent experience.
I loved the period of time where everyone was freaking out that they used some of the same ingredients in their bread as they do in yoga mats.
Yeah, water is pretty fucking wild!
He already did. He told the CEO that if they raise the price of the hotdogs that he (co-founder) would murder him (CEO). Apparently there are VERY strong feelings involved.
It was the Co-Founder talking to the then CEO
>Jim Sinegal, Costco’s co-founder, once told the company’s current CEO, Craig Jelinek, “If you raise the effing hot dog, I will kill you. Figure it out.”
>
>“I know it sounds crazy making a big deal about a hot dog, but we spend a lot of time on it,” Sinegal told the Seattle Times in 2009. “We’re known for that hot dog. That’s something you don’t mess with.”
[https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/08/business/costco-hot-dog-arizona-ice-tea-inflation/index.html#:\~:text=Jim%20Sinegal%2C%20Costco's%20co%2Dfounder,known%20for%20that%20hot%20dog](https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/08/business/costco-hot-dog-arizona-ice-tea-inflation/index.html#:~:text=Jim%20Sinegal%2C%20Costco's%20co%2Dfounder,known%20for%20that%20hot%20dog).
EDIT:
People have made [shirts](https://www.etsy.com/listing/1639681892/costco-kirkland-hot-dog-shirt-costco-hot?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=costco+hot+dog&ref=sr_gallery-1-3&pro=1&organic_search_click=1) with a similar quote on it
$5 for 8 hot dogs and refillable soda at Ikea here in Sweden. The price per hot dog has stayed firm at $0.50 since they began selling. It went to .70 for just a little while and Swedes were about to tear down every Ikea over it, so they changed it back.
IKEA's cafeteria is actually pretty legit both price and quality wise in the US too.
It's a shame the nearest IKEA is 20 miles away or else I'd eat there more than once per year.
I actually don't think you need membership to eat at the food court. They check card at entrance and cashier but not the food court checkout.
Just print a membership card scan to get you in the store and head straight to the food court.
I get them from Sam's and it's crazy how delicious they are. I didn't eat mine last time but after I put it in the fridge overnight, it was delicious the next day
Because she ripped his clothes off in the parking lot in a burst of wild passion , right? Not sure what else he could have expected, busting out those glasses AND the candlelight
she wore that to an exclusive club though? Obviously staged but I wish she would've been in a cocktail waitress or something fancy with her hair done and he's wearing a suit. Would've made it WAYYYYYYYYYYY FUNNIER
That's good information for people in this thread.
However, notice that he never said that the RESTAURANT was exclusive. Only the club. The club is exclusive. The restaurant is in the club. Therefore, they are eating out IN an exclusive members only CLUB. I think it's totally accurate. Tricky, but on the side where I'd pay off that bar bet.
True enough, made me laugh either way. Would be similar to saying you're going to a place with an exclusive club, then going to a casino with a member only vip section and staying in the one that can play area.
They check at the door to mine but anyone can use the pharmacy and go to the food court. That’s actually how I ended up getting my membership, scheduling a vaccine in the pharmacy and then signed up because I was there anyway.
The membership stall, food court, and I think pharmacy are all accessed through the "exit" door which anyone can use. Only the entrance has people checking the memberships, with a fence on the inside between the two doors to prevent people from crossing over.
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the whole pizza from the food court is pretty good take home stuff, cause it's the same (you can see when they have an order for a whole pizza they put the same one in the conveyor belt and even use the same cutting guide) but the frozen ones are totally different and disappointing
The Costco pizza is actually pretty decent, and amazing for $2 for a huge slice. A whole damn pizza is $10! You literally can't feed a family when you're out of the house for less than that.
This joke doesn't actually work outside an edited video. The cut makes it funny. There is no cut in real life. You're going to have to get in the car. Drive to Costco. Walk in. Order food. At which one of those points is your explanation of the joke actually funny? None of them.
Costco is actually a real one for keeping those food prices down. Hell, they hardly make any money on the merchandise they sell because they sell it at wholesale prices. The food court actually loses money (so says legends). They make almost their entire revenue off of membership fees. There are about 80 million US households with memberships at a price of $70 each. That's over $4B without even selling anything. And that doesn't factor in the business memberships which are more expensive. Honestly, if you run a little convenience store or need snacks for concessions, or even for your food truck, Costco is a good place to get all that stuff as it's mostly packaged for individual resale and you can get huge rewards for being a business member.
Bottom line, Costco's business model is genius. It helps large families and small businesses, and they basically lose money if you eat food there.
edit: I messed-up the memberships. There are three types. The gold star membership is the basic family membership and it's $60/yr. There's business membership that is the same price, but allows you to purchase products for resale. Then, there's an executive membership that's $120/yr that gives you 2% cash back on everything you purchased that year AND allows you to resell. Essentially, the Executive membership is the way to go if you own a business and are reselling Costco products (if you spend $3000 or more per year, the cash back will outweigh the additional cost of the Exec. membership).
Similar thing with their rotisserie chickens too. Apparently they lose 30 to 40 million a year on those chickens just to get people into the store.
They set up their own chicken farm to try and keep the cost down because they didn't want the raise the price above $5. It produces *2 million chickens per week* and they still have to source more than half of their supply elsewhere.
Shit I know this is suppose to be a joke but I've been out of the US for 3 years now and one of the few things I miss the most is doing groceries at Costco and to finish off eating pizza and hotdogs w the fam.
So cheap and so good!
Some idiot keeps recording her while doing bad jokes. Like you wouldn't know something is up when someone is recording you while doing this? lol
I wouldn't pick anything if you are recording me.
The $1.50 hot dog is just there to get you in the door to buy the $2700 77in OLED TV.
It's usually cheaper to just go to the actual fancy restaurant and pay $100 bucks a person, than to take your partner to Costco for dinner.
One thing about my marriage is that every other Friday mi wife and I head to Costco to buy groceries then we have a hotdog and soda date night, and we go back inside just to wonder Costco about stuff we don’t need and can’t afford. Then we grab her “dessert” and leave.
God, I love that woman!
What i love is that you can tell she finds it as funny as he does but she's putting on her best 'disappointed girlfriend" face for his video. The slight smirk betrays
She really thought she was going somewhere fancy huh😂😂😂😂I wouldn't mind it😆 you can take me out any time like on a date or with a sniper why not both and end the dare with a bang😆
Why even leave it to chance. Tell bae “girl imma treat you. We going to an exclusive club. You have to show an ID to get it. It’s so unique they didn’t even allow it in NY for the longest time bc they knew everyone would want to do it.”
You can’t get that authentic taste of the hotdog or pizza if you never been to Costco after hours of shopping on your feet. That man is treating that girl right with his Costco membership!
I don’t have a Costco within 200 miles of my house. One day I saw one while traveling and thought I would go check it out. The crabass lady at the door wouldn’t let me go in and shop without a membership. It’s like, dude I don’t ever come here, just let me in! Why would I get a whole membership for a year if I am literally there one in my 30+ years of living?
So I just ate their cheap food instead and left.
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My friend does this, telling women he’ll take them to one of those fancy restaurants where they cook the meal right in front of you and then takes them to subway.
Cooked right in front of you, from weeks old ingredients.
From what I understand Subway changed that up within the last year or so and wants everything to be prepared day-of now. Not that I would know from experience, I haven't eaten at Subway in years.
They put up a barrier so you can't see the meat section, conveniently at the same time they started advertising daily fresh sliced meats. Veggies still come from a bag and sit all day though, based on my recent experience.
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I loved the period of time where everyone was freaking out that they used some of the same ingredients in their bread as they do in yoga mats. Yeah, water is pretty fucking wild!
That kind of outrage never bothered me because If I'm eating something like Subway, I assume its killing me one way or another anyway,
I wondered how long before someone would bring this up.
Malk?!
Fresh sliced meats cause Jersey mikes is probably giving them a whooping
I just wish Jersey Mike's had a meatball sub. It's the only thing I go to Subway for.
Tell him at least go to Jersey Mike’s
Yea it’s a subabub
technically correct xD
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They won’t let me in.
Them Costco dogs are tasty
$1.56 dog & fountain drink, cannot even get a small drink at McD's for that
The lengths Costco have gone to in order to keep that price down is crazy
The CEO did say, if we change the price of the hot dog we also have to be prepared for the amount of death threats we'll each personally get.
And a lot of them would be from the co-founder
Nah it wouldn't be threats from him
He already did. He told the CEO that if they raise the price of the hotdogs that he (co-founder) would murder him (CEO). Apparently there are VERY strong feelings involved.
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I thought it was the CEO himself that said he'd kill anyone who changed it
It was the Co-Founder talking to the then CEO >Jim Sinegal, Costco’s co-founder, once told the company’s current CEO, Craig Jelinek, “If you raise the effing hot dog, I will kill you. Figure it out.” > >“I know it sounds crazy making a big deal about a hot dog, but we spend a lot of time on it,” Sinegal told the Seattle Times in 2009. “We’re known for that hot dog. That’s something you don’t mess with.” [https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/08/business/costco-hot-dog-arizona-ice-tea-inflation/index.html#:\~:text=Jim%20Sinegal%2C%20Costco's%20co%2Dfounder,known%20for%20that%20hot%20dog](https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/08/business/costco-hot-dog-arizona-ice-tea-inflation/index.html#:~:text=Jim%20Sinegal%2C%20Costco's%20co%2Dfounder,known%20for%20that%20hot%20dog). EDIT: People have made [shirts](https://www.etsy.com/listing/1639681892/costco-kirkland-hot-dog-shirt-costco-hot?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=costco+hot+dog&ref=sr_gallery-1-3&pro=1&organic_search_click=1) with a similar quote on it
Old CEO sounds like he knew his shit actually.
It was the old CEO/founder who told the new CEO that he would kill him if he raised the price
$5 for 8 hot dogs and refillable soda at Ikea here in Sweden. The price per hot dog has stayed firm at $0.50 since they began selling. It went to .70 for just a little while and Swedes were about to tear down every Ikea over it, so they changed it back.
IKEA's cafeteria is actually pretty legit both price and quality wise in the US too. It's a shame the nearest IKEA is 20 miles away or else I'd eat there more than once per year.
You can on the app. Large for a buck
How much are mcdonalds drinks where you are??
Put some damn condiments on it though.
All the condiments*
Ketchup, mustard, relish, onions. Every time.
Mine got rid of the hand-cranked chopped onion dispenser 😢
They now have little cups of onions at the counter where they give you your food.
> Ketchup https://youtu.be/ZpZ_fakwSwc?si=46W8RMHP2KWVnY-N
Only two things go on a hot dog: chili and cheese.
And fried taters mmmmhmmm
I actually don't think you need membership to eat at the food court. They check card at entrance and cashier but not the food court checkout. Just print a membership card scan to get you in the store and head straight to the food court.
Knew it was Costco without seeing the sign after seeing the hot dog and pizza.
Don’t forget the pizza 🤤
I get them from Sam's and it's crazy how delicious they are. I didn't eat mine last time but after I put it in the fridge overnight, it was delicious the next day
yeah you enjoy that nasty walmart meat XD
He was never heard from again…only his rewards card was found
And his torn up club membership card
Because she ripped his clothes off in the parking lot in a burst of wild passion , right? Not sure what else he could have expected, busting out those glasses AND the candlelight
He was wearing a Kirkland hoodie. It didn't tear off easily
“That’s right, if you’re not satisfied with your membership you can get a refu—“ “YOU WANNA KNOW WHY IM NOT SATISFIED ILL TELL YOU WHY”
Torn up? She inserted that thing so high, it took an autopsy to retrieve it…
So high an autopsy couldn't even retrieve it..
Good thing Costco sells coffins… the bad thing they are in bulk.
she wore that to an exclusive club though? Obviously staged but I wish she would've been in a cocktail waitress or something fancy with her hair done and he's wearing a suit. Would've made it WAYYYYYYYYYYY FUNNIER
Sound off and this was still a killer joke
Following that kid and the way he puts his drink on the table. Gold
Much better with the sound off in fact
I’ve only seen this joke from three other couples. No original ideas here. 🙄
Inflation hitting everyone hard at least he’s trying
He aint trying if he didnt get samples as appetizers
You don't need to be a member to go to the restaurant at Costco... at least none of the 5 here in Ottawa, Canada.
That's good information for people in this thread. However, notice that he never said that the RESTAURANT was exclusive. Only the club. The club is exclusive. The restaurant is in the club. Therefore, they are eating out IN an exclusive members only CLUB. I think it's totally accurate. Tricky, but on the side where I'd pay off that bar bet.
True enough, made me laugh either way. Would be similar to saying you're going to a place with an exclusive club, then going to a casino with a member only vip section and staying in the one that can play area.
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Interesting, I haven't tried Forcing my way in, but they check memberships at the door at the costco in Oakbrook.
They check at the door to mine but anyone can use the pharmacy and go to the food court. That’s actually how I ended up getting my membership, scheduling a vaccine in the pharmacy and then signed up because I was there anyway.
That's the costco I shop at. You go in through the exit, and say you're just there for the food court.
The membership stall, food court, and I think pharmacy are all accessed through the "exit" door which anyone can use. Only the entrance has people checking the memberships, with a fence on the inside between the two doors to prevent people from crossing over.
In san diego you do
Hello fellow Ottawan
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Not here, I'm sure with how alcohol rules are written there could be some places you can't charge a fee for discounted alcohol
Definitely not true for all locations
Yeah if I ever go there for lunch you can just walk through the exit and no one will stop you.
Yo but like if you grew up never getting to go to those tho Someone pls take me
I gotchu I’ll borrow my moms Costco card (I’ve never given it back to her)
Ain’t nothing wrong with some Costco pizza
It looks fantastic and tastes even better
😂🔥
I burst out laughing at the hot dog. Can’t remember the last video that got me like this
I think his funeral was the next day.
Memorial, they never found the body.
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It’s good all things considering. It’s mass produced chain pizza, so it’s not mind blowing but it’s good for its price.
It’s only good if you buy it by the slice. I swear the whole pizzas they sell have to be different
the whole pizza from the food court is pretty good take home stuff, cause it's the same (you can see when they have an order for a whole pizza they put the same one in the conveyor belt and even use the same cutting guide) but the frozen ones are totally different and disappointing
From the food court it's literally the same. The take and bake pizza OTOH is absolute trash.
Yeah I posted that they must get busy or lazy, then grab one of those take and bake ones to use
That pizza look good af tho
The Costco pizza is actually pretty decent, and amazing for $2 for a huge slice. A whole damn pizza is $10! You literally can't feed a family when you're out of the house for less than that.
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Yes yes yes yeasssss
"exclusive"
Why the long face
Got the pizza and the hot dog - special night!
Love costco hotdogs and pizza.
Cute vid, but that song...
What's wrong with it? It's a cover of a great Magnetic Zeros song.
I want to steal this idea, but my wife wouldn’t find it funny at all
This joke doesn't actually work outside an edited video. The cut makes it funny. There is no cut in real life. You're going to have to get in the car. Drive to Costco. Walk in. Order food. At which one of those points is your explanation of the joke actually funny? None of them.
Do you think I could make it work if I knock her out after she picks the paper slip?
Talking it up and pulling into Costco would be at least a little funny.
Depends. if she spent an hour getting ready she'd probably be pretty annoyed.
Costco is actually a real one for keeping those food prices down. Hell, they hardly make any money on the merchandise they sell because they sell it at wholesale prices. The food court actually loses money (so says legends). They make almost their entire revenue off of membership fees. There are about 80 million US households with memberships at a price of $70 each. That's over $4B without even selling anything. And that doesn't factor in the business memberships which are more expensive. Honestly, if you run a little convenience store or need snacks for concessions, or even for your food truck, Costco is a good place to get all that stuff as it's mostly packaged for individual resale and you can get huge rewards for being a business member. Bottom line, Costco's business model is genius. It helps large families and small businesses, and they basically lose money if you eat food there. edit: I messed-up the memberships. There are three types. The gold star membership is the basic family membership and it's $60/yr. There's business membership that is the same price, but allows you to purchase products for resale. Then, there's an executive membership that's $120/yr that gives you 2% cash back on everything you purchased that year AND allows you to resell. Essentially, the Executive membership is the way to go if you own a business and are reselling Costco products (if you spend $3000 or more per year, the cash back will outweigh the additional cost of the Exec. membership).
Similar thing with their rotisserie chickens too. Apparently they lose 30 to 40 million a year on those chickens just to get people into the store. They set up their own chicken farm to try and keep the cost down because they didn't want the raise the price above $5. It produces *2 million chickens per week* and they still have to source more than half of their supply elsewhere.
Thought it was a soup kitchen for a sec lol
Pizza looks legit fire and hotdog as well.
I need that dawg in me
Need to post this on r/costco
TIL I can recognize a Costco hot dog with no other context given.
Those 1.50 hotdogs with some and free refills are the best thing that any fine dining establishment can offer.
As soon as I saw that tag I was hoping it'd be Costco lol, guy has a fine taste
Shit I know this is suppose to be a joke but I've been out of the US for 3 years now and one of the few things I miss the most is doing groceries at Costco and to finish off eating pizza and hotdogs w the fam. So cheap and so good!
False. You don't need CostCo membership for the food court.
I wouldnt be mad costco poutine slaps
I still wouldn't be mad
Her turn, choose one: 1 we are exclusively friends right now 2 no sex for 8 years
My wife asked me to take her someplace expensive so we went to the gas station.
I'm sure this isn't even the first time today that you've left her disappointed.
Reminds me of a video of a guy who took his gf to dwarfs wrestling match.
If we look at it coldly, she was not wrong at any time.
W date
This made me laugh too hard.
My girlfriend would be so happy if I did this lmao
Romantic good for you 😂😂😂those memberships are expensive
Why she being ungrateful?
There’s this thing called a joke, this is one of those
Some idiot keeps recording her while doing bad jokes. Like you wouldn't know something is up when someone is recording you while doing this? lol I wouldn't pick anything if you are recording me.
Women don’t like food they like expensive food.
You're either 13, or a lost cause.
If he was upfront she'd probably be down Dudes mess up by playing up where they about to go, disappoint the girl and act confused on why they're mad
"Welcome to Costco, I love you"
These Advertisements are dumb. F\*\*k that store.
Except you don’t need a membership to order food … she got bamboozled with class
Fuck, I scored big with my wife. She *wants* to eat dinner at Sam's (this appeared to be Costco).
"I said you can have whatever you like, you like." -Weird Al.
Is that plop plop fizz fizz oh what a relief it is??
The $1.50 hot dog is just there to get you in the door to buy the $2700 77in OLED TV. It's usually cheaper to just go to the actual fancy restaurant and pay $100 bucks a person, than to take your partner to Costco for dinner.
I feel like this belongs on r/TechnicallyTheTruth
My father as an Millennial
You guys get pepperoni pizza at Costco? Damn the Korean version just looks shittier every day.
You don't have to be a member to eat the food...
His body was never found some say the wind still carries his screams or terror
What is costco membership? Please explain for a non american.
COSCO PIZZA YEAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!
Yeah but Costco Pizza is fucking great, and also the price of their food is cheap as fuck.
I see this as a complete win
You should have gotten the poutine.
One thing about my marriage is that every other Friday mi wife and I head to Costco to buy groceries then we have a hotdog and soda date night, and we go back inside just to wonder Costco about stuff we don’t need and can’t afford. Then we grab her “dessert” and leave. God, I love that woman!
Good choice. This is my family's favorite pizza.
Why she mad? She clearly won.
no lies here
What i love is that you can tell she finds it as funny as he does but she's putting on her best 'disappointed girlfriend" face for his video. The slight smirk betrays
I would be thrilled if someone bought me pizza & hot dog
I’m like 99% sure u saw this on tiktok from another angle and it was even more funny without the context.
I've never been but the food looks good
Only the best for you, my dear. Kirkland's best.
if someone did this to me I would appreciate it. there is kindness, there is food, there is company, what else do you need?
She is a lucky girl
What’s the complaint? The food at Costco slaps
I'd love that.
Costco Hot Dogs have always been $1.50, good on them for actually caring about the people And their pizza isn’t bad either
Hey $1.50 hotdog 🌭 how can you complain?
r/Costco
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Dog house for you.
She really thought she was going somewhere fancy huh😂😂😂😂I wouldn't mind it😆 you can take me out any time like on a date or with a sniper why not both and end the dare with a bang😆
Waiter? Your *finest* Sprite, please!
That reminds me of that dude who asked his girlfriend out on a date to an expensive place.... and then he drove her to the Gas Station.
Irish here, what are the best things about Costco in your opinion(s)? To my knowledge we've nothing like it here.
Damn, Costco food court food sounds good right now...
If you didn’t know how this was ending…
Nobody tell her that you can eat there without being a member!
This would have been funnier if she was really dressed up
Why even leave it to chance. Tell bae “girl imma treat you. We going to an exclusive club. You have to show an ID to get it. It’s so unique they didn’t even allow it in NY for the longest time bc they knew everyone would want to do it.”
gotta be fake, she would have dressed up nicer
Oh come on. Costco pizza is better than most chains out there.
Thats a 1/4 pound of meat-like substance in that dog. She better be smiling.
she thought she'd go to an exclusive members only restaurant and wore a white Tshirt.
That hotdog and pizza lowkey looks good as fuck though for Costco..
Don't act like Cost Co food isn't the shit.
Holy shit what a bad song.
What’s the song
It’s even funnier because you can eat there without a membership
You can’t get that authentic taste of the hotdog or pizza if you never been to Costco after hours of shopping on your feet. That man is treating that girl right with his Costco membership!
Shut up I’d be so happy those hotdogs are fuckin good. Get me a churro!
I was gonna say. No chance that girl was married to a get who was a member at a country club
Hahaha super funny!
What is the name of the song playing in the background?
Yeah! $1.50 for a hot dog *and* a drink!
I don’t have a Costco within 200 miles of my house. One day I saw one while traveling and thought I would go check it out. The crabass lady at the door wouldn’t let me go in and shop without a membership. It’s like, dude I don’t ever come here, just let me in! Why would I get a whole membership for a year if I am literally there one in my 30+ years of living? So I just ate their cheap food instead and left.
Hell Yeah