Maybe you didn’t even realize you wanted more water, or were ready to tell your server what you’ll be ordering for dinner, but among good waiters, the practice of reading a table means they’ve got a sense of what you need and when you’re ready for them. [More]
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How To Split A Restaurant Check
By 3.16.11
Are you going out to eat today? The Awl provides this helpful guide to splitting the check at a restaurant. Writer Neel Shah helpfully devises different rules for people over and under the age of 25. Or maybe for people who are or aren’t poor. Whatever the case, there’s a social contract involved, and if you only pay what you owe down to the last cent, you’re sort of a cheap jerk. Or under 25. [More]
Comcast Spends 42 Cents to Mail You a 13 Cent Check
By 1.13.09
It could be worse; they could have just charged him the difference and called it a day. Full Comcastic Check inside. [Thanks David!]
