This is hilarious. No viable business loses money,
especially intentionally as you seem to believe.
The profit margin in that 7 dollar toast point includes overall operating expenses which do include condiments, cups, lids, utilities, and even seltzer water. Those expenses are there as an expected service that the typical customer expects as part of their purchase.
If too many customers take advantage of free seltzer water that $7 toast point becomes $9.
As is becoming more and more evident with each of your posts, you really do not understand marketplace economics.
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I’ll provide a very real example. Out of every 100-200 rolls of film that I sell, 1 customer will wait until tracking information isn’t available any more and then make a complaint that the roll they bought never arrived and demand a return of their funds, which per Amazon’s very customer service oriented policies, they get their money back.
My loss isn’t just the roll, my loss is my cost of the roll, the cost of shipping that roll, and the cost I paid Amazon to handle processing the order and handling customer service, so for that 1 roll of Arista.EDU 400 135-36 that cost me $3.77 to put on Amazon, my loss is $8.75.
It happens frequently enough that I must account for it in my pricing, just like that coffee shop must account for the fact that customers are going to expect to put milk and sugar in their coffee. The coffee shop has an operating expense that is divided by the average number of cups of coffee they sell per day, and that is then added to the cost of that particular coffee, along with the cost of milk and sugar and the profit they expect to make.
There is no such thing as free, you are paying for the total expense to provide that service in one form or another, if not, then that business won’t be in business for long