Comments on: Eating Out

By: asia house cricket

asia house cricket — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 03:36:14 +0000

“Their instructions most likely are to push the drinks, appetizers, coffee, and desserts.”

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that’s how they run up the tab, esp. on alcoholic drinks. more tips for them. have some sympathy. these waiters need to pay the rent, too.

-confessions of a former cricket waiter

By: Kathleen Maher

Kathleen Maher — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 01:58:36 +0000

On the rare occasions when I eat at an expensive restaurant, meaning the food is good but not as good as what I eat at home, it wastes almost as much time as money.
Maybe I’m more restless than most. Usually, however, the time the wait staff allows for drinks, appetizers, entree selection, specials, seconds, etc.,irks me. Their instructions most likely are to push the drinks, appetizers, coffee, and desserts. I don’t drink alcohol and won’t pay four dollars for a cup of herbal tea. Moreover, I prefer to converse without competition from a party of eight heavy drinkers two tables over.

By: talcott dining

talcott dining — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 00:57:47 +0000

depends on what/where you eat. if you eat expensive sushi and huge raw oysters and lobsters and prime steaks at the chop house every day, then eating out can get quite expensive. if you eat at mcdonald’s every day, then eating out can be cheaper than preparing your own big macs and chicken nuggets, but you’ll end up lying in bed all day ‘cuz you’ll be so morbidly obese. i did not read your referenced article ‘cuz i don’t do reference articles, but i think that preparation time was also calculated in monetary value.

By: Robert

Robert — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 00:43:03 +0000

the entirety of shopping, preparation, consumption, and clean-up offer an enjoyable process

OK. Come do it here for me, then, because I hate all of the steps except for the consumption part. (OK, sometimes it’s fun to cook. About once a decade, when the servants have the night off.)