Reminds me of Olive Garden's original Pasta Pass (albeit on a smaller scale). The first year they offered it it was around $150 for about 3 months of 2 meals a day. As 22 year old who couldn't cook and had recently graduated from college, I took full advantage. Each meal came with a salad, bread sticks, a pasta dish, and a drink. I would place the order to-go and pick them up on the way home from work and have food for the next 24 hours. Actually even more, I found it was so much food that I started giving it away to my coworkers friends, even offering it to the homeless guy who busked near my apartment. Probably easily 4-5K calories a day. It wasn't the best pasta in the world but it was better than the ramen I would make at home. And not the most unhealthy thing as long as I didn't eat the full portions that were served.<p>The next year apparently they made it in-store only, probably because everyone who signed up was doing exactly what I did and they were losing their hat. I'm guessing the OP doesn't have this problem because driving by Six Flags every day isn't really practical for most people. And hey they got some free publicity out of letting this guy abuse the system!
This is impressive. This should also not be necessary to discharge a student loan debt obligation. While I respect this dude's discipline, I worry the takeaway might be "millennials should spend more than half a decade saying no to all happiness to have a chance at an economically viable life" -- as opposed to "you should have a debt payoff plan and also advocate for structural changes that make colossal student debt unlikely if not impossible"
I recall a talk by Jeff Bezos regarding starting the 'Prime' business model. He said something like: 'What do you do about people who abuse the all you can eat option?'.<p>My take is that there will always be a few outliers who take advantage of the 'all you can eat' model. But I imagine most of the time they are just outliers and those people don't affect a business' bottom line that much.<p>If anything such a model is ethical if it means people can save money. I mean, the business still gets to make money, just a little <i>differently</i> than other businesses.
Here’s the original story: <a href="https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/six-flags-dining-pass" rel="nofollow">https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/six-flags-dining-pass</a>
Wasn't there someone in China who would regularly buy first-class plane tickets, go to the airport and eat in the airline lounge, and then cancel the ticket before boarding?
The article makes it sound like this practice has continued in some form to the present, even if reduced. But theme parks in CA were closed for quite a while during the lockdown, right? I'd be curious to hear what a lifestyle transition looks like going from all six flags food to "omg the stores are out of pasta" and cheap home cooking.
Many people do this with the Costco Food Court, just saying, there is something pretty powerful about providing food as your loss leader to consistently get traffic