Waiter rant on a waiter blog: [link]

Ask for the check. Sounds simple right? It's considered rude for a waiter to drop a check without the customer asking first.

I did not know this.

PAY IN CASH! – If at all possible pay in cash. The owner will love you. The waiter will love you. Why? Credit card companies charge a fee for every transaction. (Some unscrupulous owners take the transaction fee out of a waiter's tips. It's illegal but it happens.)

Nor this.

A friend of mine always tips in cash, even if he pays the bill with his credit card, for just that reason.

The Medieval Bestiary

I want a barnacle goose.

Barnacle geese come from trees that grow over water. These trees produce birds that look like small geese; the young birds hang from their beaks from the trees. When the birds are mature enough, they fall from the trees; any that fall into the water float and are safe, but those that fall on land die.

also,

The catoblepas is a four-legged bull-like creature with a very large and heavy head. Because of the weight of its head it can only look down (catoblepas is Greek for "that which looks downward). It has a long mane that hangs over its eyes, which are red and bloodshot. If the beast were ever to look up it would be deadly, because anyone who looks into its eyes will die immediately. It also has a foul and dangerous breath from eating poisonous plants.

for ita:

The he-goat is a lascivious beast, known for its lusty nature. This nature makes the he-goat so hot that its blood can disolve diamond, a stone neither fire nor iron can harm.

the founder of Habitat for Humanity at number six

Jimmy Carter is not the founder of Habitat for Humanity. The founders are Millard and Linda Fuller. Jimmy was brought into the organization I think 7 years in and is , of course, the most famous volunteer for them, especially considering his Work Projects which focused blitz building on one community each year.

Thanks, msbelle. I was going to say something but I had to go and work or something.

PAY IN CASH! – If at all possible pay in cash. The owner will love you.

I think the bigger issue is that it's harder to fudge how much you claim for taxes when it's coming on a charge slip. I still prefered cards anyway just because it was simpler than dealing with the mountains of cash you'd end up with by the end of the night. From an owner's perspective, yeah, it's a three percent hit, and AmEx is/used to be higher. I'd bet that passing it on to the waiter is a violation of the card terms, though. ETA, not that that means people don't do it.

Also, I know in Gloria Steinem's report on going undercover as a Playboy Bunny they had to give 50 percent of charge tips to the house.

It's considered rude for a waiter to drop a check without the customer asking first.

Depends - there are ways you can tell if people are ready. But if you want your check right away after your plates are gone, then yeah.

Yay new job, Kat!!

I guess the quotation marks refer to how trivial it is to find, once you know how, and is casting aspersions on the development team and the integrity of the publishers.

That's ass, though -- you have to download something separate! I'm not saying it's hard, but a three-year-old banging on the controls will not randomly end up watching porn.

It's considered rude for a waiter to drop a check without the customer asking first

I did not know this.

Yeah, some customers see it as being rushed out the door. Sometimes it *is* an attempt to rush the customers out the door.

This is what I learned from reading Tom Sietsema's chat on the Washington Post website. However, I never heard about paying in cash!

But, also, why is a three-year-old messing with GTA unsupervised anyway?

Ask for the check. Sounds simple right? It's considered rude for a waiter to drop a check without the customer asking first.

I did not know this.

I don't think this SOP in most restaurants I've been in.

But, also, why is a three-year-old messing with GTA unsupervised anyway?

Because no one but manufacturers is responsible for what people see.

There are a lot of restaurants here that don't take cards at all.

I guess bringing you the check is like hurrying you out of there so they can seat sopmeone else? Because whenever a waiter brings me my check they say "No hurry on this, I'm just leaving it here, take care of it when you're ready". Which works well for me.

The credit card thing I'm not gonna worry about. Most of the places I eat, the total is not enough for the fee to be much (if it's done as a percentage, if it's a per transaction fee the restaurant can tack on a credit card use fee to the bill, or not accept credit cards), and if it's somewhere expensive, I'm sure my overtipping covers the credit card fee. If I have to get cash before I go to dinner, I probably won't be able to impulsively get extra appetizers or dessert, my bill will be lower, and so will the tip (in absolute terms).

Sorry about your throat, msbelle.