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	stella_polaris 2007-08-21 01:34 am UTC (link)
	I think it's wanky of a restaurant to charge a non-eating person when they're in the company of people who do order food. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	gynocrat 2007-08-21 01:37 am UTC (link)
	Dude...that like a hooker charging for both guys, when one of them just wants to watch. :/ Don't you know that entitlement isn't free. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	stella_polaris 2007-08-21 02:01 am UTC (link)
	More like a hooker charging for both guys while one of them waits in the car. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	gynocrat 2007-08-21 03:23 am UTC (link)
	Don't they usually do business in cars? I'm so out of touch. >.> (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	stella_polaris 2007-08-21 08:51 am UTC (link)
	Can't say I'd know :P (Reply to this)(Parent)

	hallidae 2007-08-21 01:48 am UTC (link)
	Is that what happened? I didn't check the original post, so for some reason, I thought she was by herself. In that case, yeah, that kinda sucks, because it's not like she was wasting a table. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sashenka 2007-08-21 01:51 am UTC (link)
	(The issue is that in tex-mex restaurants, they give you a lot of free shit for the table and often charge people who don't order. She's complaining because she couldn't eat the stuff they wanted to charge her for. I'm not justifying it, but a lot of restaurants do that.) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	hallidae 2007-08-21 02:38 am UTC (link)
	But it's still sort of a good argument. If she didn't eat anything at all, why is she the one having to pay? Why not just split the charge and tack it onto the tickets of the people who did eat chips? (Reply to this)(Parent)

thexphial
2007-08-21 04:41 am UTC (link)

I wouldn't normally care, but I was in so much pain (day 7 & 8 suck, btw) and the very idea of eating a chip or salsa was completely out of the question. I understand the fee, but I was pissy because I really WANTED those things and couldn't eat them, so being basically accused of lying by the waitress when my mom said I had eaten nothing really got on my very last nerve.

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	jat_sapphire 2007-08-21 05:23 am UTC (link)
	Wow, they should totally have known what day post-tonsillectomy you were and changed the rules for you!!!! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	thexphial 2007-08-21 05:25 am UTC (link)
	I would have settled for a parade in my honor. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	seeshellirun 2007-08-21 05:09 pm UTC (link)
	exactly what I was thinking. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	serai 2007-08-21 01:57 am UTC (link)
	I wouldn't say it's wrong, but it would be way LESS wrong if they'd post their policy right out where people could see it. Like before they sat down. Hiding it in little type on the menu is pretty lousy. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	stella_polaris 2007-08-21 02:00 am UTC (link)
	Pretty much, yeah. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	amyheartssiroc 2007-08-21 02:10 am UTC (link)
	It makes sense; if the restaurant puts out lots of free chips, etc. on the table, they might have a problem with, for example, a party of five coming in, ordering two meals, and filling up on chips. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	stella_polaris 2007-08-21 02:28 am UTC (link)
	True, and in that situation I'd understand it. But when it's one person, it's kinda... wanky. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	suzycat 2007-08-28 01:23 pm UTC (link)
	Couldn't the restaurant, you know, not put free things on the table? Problem solved! (Reply to this)(Parent)

sesana
2007-08-21 03:03 am UTC (link)

This is actually somewhat timely, for me. In one of those advice columns (you know, Dear Abby or something) last week, a waitress posted about large groups of people that would come in during peak dinner hours just to hold their committee meetings, without ordering anything. The advice was to add a minimum charge. So my first thought was that this particular place had similar problems in the past.

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	onyxnoir 2007-08-21 04:23 am UTC (link)
	Excuse me. I just have to drool on your icon for a couple of minutes. I'll clean up after myself. :D (Reply to this)(Parent)

	stella_polaris 2007-08-21 08:51 am UTC (link)
	Indeed, and that's just rude of the people coming over to hold tables, but I was talking about charging a single person in the company of people who do order. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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