I usually whisper, “I’ll flip every table in this joint if you don’t take my card, including the one with that child at it”, and while it has a 100% success rate, I can’t help but feel terrible about it, later. What are some alternatives?
I usually whisper, “I’ll flip every table in this joint if you don’t take my card, including the one with that child at it”, and while it has a 100% success rate, I can’t help but feel terrible about it, later. What are some alternatives?
I feel I am too european to understand this; We pay before eating.
Europe must be in a bad neighborhood
I bet all the silverware is chained down, too.
Where in Europe is this? I’ve never paid before eating at a restaurant anywhere I’ve traveled in Europe. You pay at the end when the bill comes except at places where you order at a counter, same as the US.
I’ve lived in multiple European countries, and visited and dined in many more. Never once paid before a meal. Where in Europe are you from?
Here in Aotearoa it depends where you are eating.
Cafe where you order at the counter = pay first.
Restaurant where someone comes to your table to take your order = pay later.
That’s how it is everywhere.
You order everything up front and pay up front? What if you decide you’re having a good time and you want to add on another drink?
In Germany we don’t.
Maybe at a café where you order something small and then sit down wherever, but never in a restaurant.
This whole „giving your credit card to the waiter“ thing is weird though.
Honestly asking. Yes, American, but I didn’t experience that in the UK or Germany …
That sounds better honestly. I don’t think I’ve ever in my life decided to order anything else after my plate arrived, except of course at a bar where the amount of drinks I’m ordering is variable, but then bars make you pay for drinks up front…
At a bar I usually open a tab and don’t pay for drinks up front