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  • From: James Hepler <jameshepler AT yahoo.com>
  • To: RTP-area local music and culture <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: Note to waitpersons
  • Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 06:23:34 -0800 (PST)

Maybe they think you're "new money" and don't know the
appropriate procedure!

My question is, do they ever ask you that when your
change amounts to less than 15% of the tab?

Hep

--- grady <grady AT ibiblio.org> wrote:

> Would you think it odd if they asked you if you
> needed a fork, or a
> napkin? How about if you dropped your fork on the
> floor, would you find
> it strange if they said "do you need another fork?"
> and seemed reluctant
> to make the extra trip to get you one?
>
> I can understand "do you need a box?" if you have
> leftover food, because
> some people want to take home leftovers and some
> people don't, and
> once the box is on the table you've either got to
> use it or it needs to
> be thrown away, and that would be a waste of a
> perfectly good box.
>
> As for change, I quite often need it, because I live
> in enlightened
> times when two people dining together split the
> check, and the change is
> often necessary to get the details of that worked
> out. Doesn't mean the
> tip is going to necessarily be less than the total
> of the change; it
> might just as easily be *more*.
>
> The point is that the waiter/customer interaction is
> so limited and
> codified that every utterance takes on layers of
> additional meaning, and
> it's hard to read "do you need change" as anything
> other than "don't
> waste my time getting you change; that money is
> rightfully mine," and
> that's a drag.
>
> xo
>
> Ross
>
> p.s. yes, I'm a crank. I would assume that would go
> without saying (I
> know it does for Bo, but there may yet be others
> reading this), but if
> not, there you go.
>
> Bo Williams wrote:
> > This is, honestly, the first time I've ever heard
> anyone complain
> > about wait staff asking if you need change. As far
> as I can remember,
> > it's something they've always done in more-fancy
> places where odds are
> > either a) you're paying with a card or b) you
> actually don't need
> > change.
> >
> -- ch-scene: the list that mirrors
> alt.music.chapel-hill --
> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/ch-scene
>




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