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You don't need to be Alan Turing in order to tot up what you've had.
Was I right to walk out of restaurant ?
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You don't need to be Alan Turing in order to tot up what you've had.
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But was it exactly 50%
Do you register on 'the spectrum'?But was it exactly 50%
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I don’t know.Do you register on 'the spectrum'?
I had a Sinclair spectrum. Does that count?
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Ah I the op he wrote
I kinda thought that all 4 of them would be eating this precocious meal.
The kids were maybe getting the scraps and a drink to share if they were lucky.
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LOL the kids that were there weren't even part of the meal order? If so then must have missed that detail!
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Absolutely you were right to have walked out, I get the whole thing about them might been extremely busy and understaffed, But how is that your problem. The majority of food places are now understaffed and its purely because the employers don't want to pay a decent wage or take anymore on..so the only good way to highlight this problem is to walk out and them not get a penny imo (the owners).
Cant believe the cheeky git threatened to call the police
Id write up some lovely reviews for them for that alone.
Cant believe the cheeky git threatened to call the police
Id write up some lovely reviews for them for that alone.
Because.....we had seen a menu to order from with the prices and we kind of added things up roughly, it's not rocket science.
Edit, beaten by @Richdog lol
Well they didn't play me did they, they were just incompetent after all they got half their money and I got all thier product, unless they are time vampires in which case they definitely sucked me dry.
To be honest we waited longer than we would because it was roasting beyond belief and a nice evening.
They put you to the absolute bottom of their priority list and made you wait 1.5 hours, treating you like a complete mug. I don't know anyone that has ever, and I do mean ever, waited 1.5 hours for a bill.
Maybe they made us wait, but as a business they want the money for thier product and got half of it for giving us everything we asked ( other than the bill !) for and was extremely good food and drink, so who screwed who?
They are not out to steal my time and cash it in with the bank of time vampires, just useless and as I said it was a nice evening, annoying by the end but was a rather pleasent evening sat outside.
Then please don't write posts moaning about having to wait a "ridiculous" hour and a half "because you have an early flight in the morning" when in actual fact "you didn't really mind and it was a pleasant evening.".
Goodness grief, talk about misrepresenting a story.
Well I did mind didn't I, hence why I left without paying in full obviously.
It just happened to be on a nice evening instead of stuck inside or outside in the cold, still doesn't excuse the fact the service was shocking does it?
Or can't I moan because the weather was nice?
We were still late back, had a short night's sleep but I can still enjoy a positive (weather) and still form a negative opinion of the terrible service( bill)
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Why has it become a trend to publicly ask for affirmation of moral decisions from one's peers about trivial matters? 
Sounds about right for £20.
Perhaps not, but I think that they may make an exception for the OP.
Four of us waited 30-35 minutes for the bill in a restaurant in Naples FL a few years back, after asking for it at least twice.
Eventually I asked to see the maître d’, and calmly and quietly explained the situation, saying that if the bill wasn’t forthcoming in 5 minutes we were leaving.
He brought it over personally, and it had a handwritten piece at the bottom, “15% gratuity added”.
I queried this, and he said that a lot of British people were unaware of the tipping culture in the U.S., so rather than take a chance on getting stiffed, he’d added 15%.
I said, “Unfortunately you’ve done that to the wrong guy, I would normally tip 18% in the U.S., but I want that 15% removed, and for all this aggravation, there’ll be no gratuity.”
He wasn’t happy, but I wasn’t unduly concerned about that.
They were told 5 more minutes after waiting 25, it took 15, so an additional 10 minutes and a total of 40.
Reading comprehension is very weak itt.
40mins is taking the mickey a bit, especially if they weren't upfront with you about any delay and then, in addition to that, lied to you by saying it would only be another 5 mins... If someone tells you it will be 5 mins then leaves you waiting for 15 mins I'd get up and walk too, it's 40 minutes at that point and you clearly can't trust a thing they're saying.