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"Can we have 47 separate checks, please? Oh, and by the way, we all have Groupons..." -- (link)

Posted by znufrii Dec 20 '10, 12:47

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If I were the manager, I doubt the restaurant would still be standing. (www.servernotservant.com)

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shoot them all. -- nm - santa loosia Dec 20, 13:09
after heading off a potentially similar experience, I will never organise my work Christmas lunch ever again -- nm - Roger More Dec 20, 13:05 3
- what we do here is to arrange a set menu with a few choices ahead of time and collect $25 each before going. drink tickets are also a great idea. -- nm - zork Dec 20, 13:14 2
  - That is what I did, but some people said it was too expensive, could we order a la carte, etc - Roger More Dec 20, 13:25 1
    - nice. -- nm - znufrii Dec 20, 13:27
"I'm sorry, we can't split a check for a group this large." nm - Jim Dec 20, 13:01
That GM handled it very well, I think. Was anyone suprised by - JaxSean Dec 20, 12:51 10
- had that happen in high school once, with my friend's dad ending up picking up the slack. - znufrii Dec 20, 12:56
- not really there is always some cheap ass in the groups who gets out of paying -- nm - Remlik Dec 20, 12:55 8
  - (hence my sarcastic "shocked") -- nm - JaxSean Dec 20, 13:26
  - Confession: I dicked over a work lunch outing once. Boss says "we're going out for Christmas lunch" and we end up at a nice seafood place - kilbowl full of jelly Dec 20, 12:57 6
    - Bad move. The correct answer would have been to buy the chicken fingers meal and a bottle of tequila -- nm - Roger More Dec 20, 13:27
    - yeah, not cool. - znufrii Dec 20, 13:24 1
      - (clarification: not cool on *their* part) -- nm - znufrii Dec 20, 13:24
    - I wouldn't say you dicked it over at all... - Stephen Dec 20, 13:09 2
      - agreed. Someone tried to pull that crap on me once. I declined and just paid my own bill. -- nm - sycor Dec 20, 13:10
      - *nods* -- nm - Don Homer Dec 20, 13:09
yeah that's a total dick move...you tell the restaurant at the start of the meal that's what you're doing -- nm - Remlik Dec 20, 12:51 5
- also the separate checks thing. to have to back out each individuals order would take *ages.* -- nm - Elf Andie Dec 20, 12:55
- I was surprised that wouldn't be in the fine print on the Groupon, at least, that it must be presented before ordering... -- nm - znufrii Dec 20, 12:52 3
  - Yeah, we read that -- nm - college students Dec 20, 12:56 2
    - apparently they did, because they tried to game the "one groupon per table" condition... -- nm - znufrii Dec 20, 12:57
    - Sigh - con_carne wants it so bad Dec 20, 12:57
Oh lord - Shefox Dec 20, 12:51
won't load -- nm - Beaker Dec 20, 12:48 3
- here's the consumerist article... -- (link) - znufrii Dec 20, 12:49 2
  - serves the restuarant right for putting something up on Groupon. -- nm - Beaker Dec 20, 12:51 1
    - Yeah, it's the restaurant's fault for having a coupon and spelling out the conditions clearly. -- nm - JaxSean Dec 20, 12:53

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