Bangalore: We have a special relationship with food and restaurateurs know this fact all too well. Restaurants use this information to reap financial rewards. To us, eating out with friends and family is a private affair. But, to restaurateurs, it’s a purely monetary one. Restaurants have many tricks up their sleeves to camouflage their intentions of making us spend more and we will let you in on a few of them. Since, there are exceptions in all cases, not all restaurants behave in such a way. Still, kicking this old habit is hard. So, here are such unbeaten tricks given by MSN money –

1) All You Can Eat

All You Can Eat buffets are the culinary dreams of food lovers. To such people, gluttony is a very desirable sin. Granted that one knows such meal deals tend to be costlier than other types, it is still an old and successful trick of restaurants to make people pay more. Firstly, such buffets have entrees which are costlier and of a smaller proportion than regular meals. People tend to get carried away by these gastronomically delightful mini food items. So, they tend to eat these more and feel quite full before the main course. Secondly, cooking a big batch of these sly beauties is way cheaper for the restaurant as only a small percentage of people go for additional helpings of these. These special are great gimmicks to draw a good number of people on slow business days. Moreover, eating a lot obviously dries the throat and this is just another way of the restaurant to sell its over-priced drinks.