It wouldn't change my mind
that time. I'd pay for my food, eat it, and grumble (or, more likely, listen to DH grumble
) but the
next time we were picking a place to stop on a road trip, you bet it would be somewhere else.
But the
perception is vastly different. A discount for going at a certain time is a bonus. - If you know the regular price,
don't know about the discount, and
happen to go there at the right time, you feel like the universe smiled on you. Yet a surge at particular time,
higher than the "regular" price you are familiar with, will make you
feel like you're being treated unfairly.