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I think what happens is sometimes a customer will ask for steak and chips. Then if you give them a steak and a chips separately on the plate, it doesn't count the same as steak and chips meal which you get for combining a steak and chips.
Thinking back it probaly would have made more sense if you just had to place the different parts of a meal e.g. steak and chips on the plate instead of having to combine them.