RTP-area local music and culture

[James Hepler <jameshepler AT yahoo.com>]

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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