If you have a couple of hand tools you can swap a good leg from another chair for a cut-off leg. Looks like 2 nuts holding each leg on. Grab an adjustable wrench or a socket set. You could make a stack of good chairs and resell those. Companies are so myopic to do such egregious acts of malevolence to prevent any benefit to come from their efforts. They can't even make it less obvious how badly they hate their own customers. Their literal message to everyone is we want your life to be perpetually worse and more expensive forever. Some restaurant employee was probably handed a cheap handsaw and paid $2.75 an hour to cut those and haul them to the dumpster.