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Tilted Cat Head
Administrator
Location: Manhattan, NY
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Originally Posted by Gilda
This is something I hadn't considered. Do people actually do that? I mean, go into a restaurant, order a $1.85 cup of tea, and take up a booth for half an hour? That seems like a very inconsiderate thing to do to me. It hadn't occurred to me that they might have thought I was camping. I don't think I was projecting a "leave me alone" attitude.
I did stiff the waitress who never came to serve me. If what you suggest is what happened, then what I did in effect was take up a booth for half an hour, keeping them from using it, and then stiff a waitress who thought she was doing what I wanted.
Damn. It's a good thing I'll never be in that restaurant again. A customer who orders practically nothing, camps, and then stiffs the waitress is probably what they like the least. Or it must at least be near the top.
Gilda
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people do that all the time, just waiting to pass time etc. One of the reasons that they have minimum service charges and time limits in some places. In NYC it's both... even McDonald's only lets you sit for 20 minutes at a table.
When I was in college I'd use Denny's to study for tests. I'd tell the waitress I'm here to study, please keep the coffee full and come every 2 hours for food... of course I'd only do that in the middle of the night and only when they where slow.
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