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Should Diners Be Rewarded For Well-Behaved Kids, Or Should That Just Be The...
(reddit) We’ve seen the joy that can spread when restaurant employees type in an personalized discount on diner’s receipts — perhaps complimenting the customer or simply giving a discount to wish a...
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This Waffle House Adds 20% Surcharge To Pay For Security
The Waffle House lists the 20% as a “property management surcharge.” Used to be, if a business wanted to spend money to bolster its security, it would have to eat that cost or pass it on to the...
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Restaurant Uses Twitter To Shame People Who Blew Off Reservations
The owner of L.A. restaurant Red Medicine said he decided to Tweet the full names of no-shows after losing out on business last Saturday night.Allowing diners to reserve tables can be a risky...
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After A Dine-And-Dash, Is It Legal For A Restaurant To Take Money From A...
(resonanteye)It’s a story we’ve heard any number of times, both professionally and from friends in the restaurant world. A customer splits without paying the bill, or doesn’t leave enough to cover the...
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Restaurant Calls Police In Dispute Over Price Of Vegan Pasta Brought In By...
(The Consumerist)A New Jersey couple who brought their own vegan pasta to a restaurant were not thrilled to find out they were being charged more than if they had just ordered off the menu, leading to...
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Owners Of Amy’s Baking Company Say Yelpers Are Endangering Their Lives
Amy of Amy’s Baking Company on My 103.9 in Phoenix this morning.After their appearance on Gordon Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares catapulted them from being the cranky owners of a Scottsdale, AZ, restaurant...
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Reporters Kicked Out Of Amy’s Baking Company After Complaining About Flies In...
After a couple weeks of intense media scrutiny and claims that Yelpers were endangering their lives, the owners of Amy’s Baking Company in Scottsdale, AZ, re-opened last week with virtually no drama....
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NYC Restaurant Tells Customers That Tipping Is Not Allowed
(From ThePriceHike.com)As we’ve discussed here many, many times, restaurant wait staff often rely on tips because their base pay is generally far below the minimum wage level. Since tipping is an...
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Restaurant Uses Mini Helicopter To Deliver Food To Tables
The iTray at work at the Yo! Sushi in London.In what could be a breakthrough in foodservice technology or one of the most ill-advised ideas ever, a restaurant in London has begun using a miniature...
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If An NYC Restaurant Isn’t Showing Its Health Inspection Grade, It Probably...
NYC restaurants are supposed to post letter grades in a conspicuous spot near the entrance.Three years ago, New York City began requiring that all of its 24,000+ restaurants post huge letter grades...
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The Argument For Abolishing Restaurant Tips
(afagen)As any Consumerist reader knows, tipping is a hot-button topic, with some people arguing that they will only leave a tip when they receive excellent service, while others point out that most...
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Sick Of Losing Dinner Reservations To Bots, Engineer Creates A Better Bot Of...
Like tickets to a Justin Bieber concert, dinner reservations at some restaurants are so desirable that people will go out of their way to insure they get a table. But while many of us just wait until...
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Food Truck Worker: I Was Fired For Calling Out Customers Who Didn’t Tip On...
The Tweet heard ’round the world.While sit-down restaurant diners customarily leave tips, gratuities are much more rare in the to-go food business. But when an eatery goes out of its way to accommodate...
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Another Restaurant Hops On Kid-Banning Bandwagon
We’ve told you before about restaurants that established bans on screaming youngsters, kids under 6 years of age, and anyone younger than 18. Now a Houston restaurant has decided that after 7 p.m.,...
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Are Food Trucks Siphoning Customers Away From Bricks-And-Mortar Restaurants?
(nffcnnr)Food trucks have soared in popularity for two very simple reasons: They allow entrepreneurial operators a relatively low-cost, small-staff way of launching a business, and they can instantly...
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Google Patents Method For Splitting Restaurant Bill & Other Shared Expenses
Many of us now have smartphones, and almost all of us know how to use the calculator on these smartphones. Even so, not many of us are pulling out the calculator to itemize restaurant bills at the end...
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Waitress Who Claims She Got Anti-Gay Receipt May Not Have Donated Money As...
The receipt on the left is the version the waitress posted to Facebook, which shows no tip and a note saying the customers disapprove of the waitress’ “lifestyle.” On the right is a copy of the receipt...
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The Second-Cheapest Bottle Of Wine Has The Highest Mark-Up & Other Restaurant...
(Matthew Wild)Many of us have been there, especially in our early to mid-20s, on a date and being asked to pick a wine. You don’t want to look cheap, so you rule out the least expensive bottle on the...
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Where Does The Negotiation Start When You Tip?
(avitania) When you dine out and have to calculate a tip, where do you start your calculations? Everyone has a different method, but in this country most people start their mental calculations at 15%...
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3 Tips To Writing A Yelp Restaurant Review That Is Worth A Read
(amyadoyzie)As helpful as crowdsourced review sites like Yelp can be, not every write-up is of use to a consumer trying to figure out whether a restaurant is worth the trip. Sometimes it’s because the...
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