This list is about the tricks that restaurants use to – often – trick you in to buying more than you intended to buy.

Source: Upselling Tips: 26 Phrases Servers Say for Bigger Sales – Buzztime

Upselling is when sales people use tricks to get you to add more to your order – or buy more than you wanted or needed.

In the restaurant example, employees are trained in how to manipulate you – basically, a form of propaganda messaging used to persuade you to buy more.

(One business we no longer shop at is Best Buy. They are notorious for upselling the customer, and if that doesn’t work, then they sneak in odd stuff like … a computer anti-virus contract – and tell you that you won’t pay anything if you never activate it. You never activate it … and they still bill you for it. Upsellers are scummy businesses and are best avoided.)