🥪 Corporate Lunch Rush Specs

⚡ The $7.50 spec: two slices, a drink, and a drive-thru bell on Vernon Ave

Flingers Pizza Pub runs the most precisely published lunch deal in Bloomington-Normal, and the whole thing is built for a lunch hour with a hard stop. Every weekday from 11 AM to 1 PM, the Lightning Lunch works like this: drive-thru slices are hot and ready when you arrive, you ring the bell, tell them what you want, pay at the window, and go. Five combos, all under the $15 line, all priced on Flingers' own specials page — pulled this morning, not remembered.

📋 The Spec — Flingers Pizza Pub, 1503 E Vernon Ave, Bloomington

• Spot: Flingers Pizza Pub · 1503 E Vernon Ave · (309) 820-8838 · flingers.com
• Window: Lightning Lunch, Monday–Friday, 11 AM–1 PM — dine-in and drive-thru pickup window; not available for delivery, per Flingers' own specials page.
• The slices: Four hot options every weekday — a multi-topping meat slice, a vegetarian slice, pepperoni-only, sausage-only. Slice: $2.70. Side salad: $5.50.
• Order / Total (combos, from their own page, plus tax):
  • Combo #1 — 2 slices + a soft drink: $7.50
  • Combo #2 — 1 slice + 1 side salad + a soft drink: $9.00
  • Combo #3 — 2 slices + 1 side salad + a soft drink: $10.50
  • Combo #4 — 2 Flinger Rolls (2 toppings) + a soft drink: $10.50 — the rolls are made to order, and Flingers times them at about 6 minutes, which they count as still Lightning-fast enough.
  • Combo #5 — 3 slices + a soft drink: $9.50
• The dine-in wrinkle: order a glass of draft beer with your dine-in Lightning Lunch and the slice is free — their words, their page.
• Tuesday upgrade: Roll Call runs all day Tuesdays — two 2-topping Flinger Rolls for $9.00, pickup or dine-in. Not offered through online ordering, so call it in: (309) 820-8838.
• Full source: flingers.com/specials

Decision it changes: the noon question stops being "where can we even get in and out" and becomes a standing order — Combo #1 at $7.50 plus tax, bell, window, back at your desk with the hour still yours.

🗒️ The desk note — who didn't make this sheet, and why

The spec sheet's rule is the reason it's short enough to trust: no own-menu price, no spec.

• Wok to Bowl (716 S Eldorado Rd) — the south-side build-your-own bowl shop describes its full menu on its own dine-in page — fried rice bowls, Thai and Indian curry bowls, noodle bowls, your choice of base, protein, sauce, and heat (woktobowl.net/Dinein-menu-bloomington-il) — but publishes its prices only inside menu images, with no readable totals to quote. The day a bowl total is readable on their own page, it gets a spec with the total printed.
• Eurest at State Farm Corporate (sf-corp.catertrax.com) — the campus caterer publishes catering menus with per-person prices and group minimums (boxed lunches from 6, trays from 15–20). That's meeting food ordered ahead, not a walk-in lunch rush — different sheet, not this one.
• The Rock (Uptown Normal) — fully priced daily specials on its own site, fries and drink included, tax in. Excellent numbers, wrong turf: it's an Uptown lunch, so it's held for the Uptown sheet rather than stretched into this one.

Next sheet

Corporate South empties onto Ireland Grove and the south-side corridors every noon, and this sheet grows one verified spec at a time — each one priced from the restaurant's own page the week it runs.

Send this to the one person on your team who still loses 40 minutes to a drive-thru line at noon — their whole order is Combo #1 and a bell they haven't rung yet.

One word back: your Corporate South go-to, in one word. The top answer gets spec'd next week — prices pulled from its own menu, total printed, or it doesn't run.

📋 Share card — copy, paste, post

• ⚡ Flingers Lightning Lunch, weekdays 11–1 on E Vernon Ave: slices $2.70, Combo #1 (2 slices + drink) $7.50 + tax — drive-thru bell, pay at the window: flingers.com/specials
• 🍕 Tuesday all day: Roll Call — two 2-topping Flinger Rolls for $9.00. Call it in, it's not in the online ordering: (309) 820-8838
• 📋 The Bagel's spec rule: a lunch only gets a spec when the price comes off the restaurant's own menu that week — spot, order, total, nothing guessed: theblonobagel.com