They should honor their ads in the paper. However....
Personally, I've learned to not expect much of a meal from a "buy one get one free dinner" ad by a couple of these clubs here. Regardless of what restaurant it is, cheap or expensive, it costs money to put out a dinner and call it "free" with the other one bought for under $10 as people expect here.
Going on an ad for Mallory once, for a $8.95 special for "Barbecue platter" with some visiting friends who saw the ad and said "let's try it", it was an embarrassment and a waste of $8.95. The "platter" had a scoop of pulled pork, andthree kinds of canned food i.e. mac & cheese, applesauce, instant mashed "potatoes" etc, and everything was in a little round ice-cream scoop shape looking like something that a diner on the railroad tracks would have served in 1950 for 25 cents.
It was further proof that "you pay for what you get".
My parents and grandparents were 100% right in always reminding us:
"There's no such thing as a free lunch." (or dinner at a country club).
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