Eat for free in the restaurant
03/03/2014
A nice gentleman enters a restaurant on an unspecified street. He sits down and a waiter immediately comes to bring him the menu. Satisfied, the man begins to study the menu, then he pauses.
He calls the waiter over. "Waiter, your food costs something!"
Now it's up to the restaurant employee to look puzzled. He replies politely: "Yes, of course our food costs something, we prepare it with a lot of effort and use good ingredients. And our employees have families to feed."
But this doesn't impress the guest. He says: "But just now I was offered free sausage, bread and olive oil in the store around the corner". The waiter replies: "That may be true, but the store staff are doing this to sell products, so to speak as a promotional aid and with the aim of having more visitors in the store."
"I don't care," says the restaurant visitor, who is now getting angry, "it's free and I don't mind that I don't get enough and can't choose what I'm offered".
Finally, the now no longer so nice gentleman leaves the restaurant and is convinced that he has been treated badly because he didn't get a free meal. Although he is still hungry, there is no way he wants to pay for a meal because, after all, it should be free everywhere ...
An absurd story, do you think, dear reader? Perhaps, but this is exactly what happens to us Zwischengas makers time and again. You simply have to replace "restaurant" in this text with "Internet platform", the food with information (text, picture, etc.) and the waiter with the journalist ...
