re: Laughing at stereotypes isn’t funny

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This is what happened, the server knew they were auto grating these people and doing the one tab. So they were intentionally lazy and half azzing their job.

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But with this big of a tab not announcing it right in the beginning you aren’t splitting or not keeping it organized is just very poor management.

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The reason places refuse to split tabs on big parties isn’t because they’re lazy - it’s to make sure they get paid. Here’s what inevitably happens:

- 25% of the reservation shows up early and demands to be seated.
- They order drinks and appetizers.
- The other 75% trickle in. They order drinks and appetizers. As people show up, they rearrange seating.
- Extra people show up that were not included in the reservation headcount (especially if the headcount is conveniently just below the number that requires a deposit).
- The seating rearranges again as these extras show up.
- People walk around and mingle while ordering drinks and food.
- By the time the food comes out, seating has been completely reshuffled 2-3 times.
- Small groups start wanting to leave while others are still drinking/eating/ordering dessert. They want their tab. But they “only had 2 appletinis, the third one must have been someone else.”
- Slowly, as folks leave, the remaining bill gets larger.
- The last group to leave refuses to pay for items that were actually ordered by people who have already paid.

If you have a group of 20+ who want to sit at one table with separate checks, it’s a recipe for disaster. Many places will split checks only up to a certain party size for this reason. Otherwise you basically need to treat it like bar service - open a tab on a credit card for each group.

Back in the day. My group all worked as either waiters or bartenders. We used to meet up and go out after our shifts, we would usually go a restaurant without calling ahead (no cell phones) usually one of us would go in and tell them the party size and ask if they could seat us. We would also let them know we were all bartender and waiters and that usually got us seated very quickly.

Is the restaurant being ridiculed on twitter yet for being racist? Boycott being called for? Hmmmmm..... that may work out in restaurant’s favor.

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No lemonade on receipt =

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Is been said few drinks removed,

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All the nice restaurants do that there. I assume because groups of women go to wineries all day and are too drunk to make their reservation and it screws the restaurants

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yep. Napa does the same thing. Genius !