Thanks for the follow-up, I got too deep in trying to figure out how a quarter of the carb cost made sense to see the point that it’s not meant to make sense it’s to obfuscate the various mark-ups so the customer is cool with it… I think, if I’m getting it now at least.

Maybe they realize they don’t need to? A cyber-uck that realizes the inflated price probably has the money and chalks it off to “the mega-screen amenity surcharge”, the “charging station premium”, and/or the “retro-futurist diner experience”.