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Eating Out Picking Up The Tab

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Cook onion 2mato, small chilies in olivoil for 6m.   Add basa steaks  or any white fish. Cook for 5m. Garnish with leaks. Eat with rice. Eating out.   Great food.   Great something to do when there’s nothing to do, but who picks up the tab? Why is it called a tab?   Is it because the waiter puts it on the table?   Never mind. Restaurants should have two menus: green and red.   The green menu will be for normal people. 1.        Diners who tell the waiter to charge the four people at the table separately, which means four credit cards of all colours will be fished out of from bulging wallets. 2.        Diners who split the tab four-ways, which is a problem if they are paying cash.   Who pays the tax?   Do they split the 8% or 14%?   The cash situation can be a nightmare for waiters, while grown-up men and women pass around twenty and ten dollar bills, even silver.   ‘ Mine is $12.47 because I had the ceasar salad and water,’ says the local Scrooge. 3.        People who

Public Indecency on Yonge and Bloor

  The subway train raised an eyebrow When it saw the public indecency On the southbound platform on Yonge and Bloor It coughed to show its disgust The jolt forcing passengers to sandwich each Twitter friends online But enemies in real life The train shrugged and limped along Leaving the public indecency still in my arms Which I could not stop kissing.   ©Nonqaba waka Msimang 16 April 2015  

No Questions Asked Restaurants

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I’m thinking of investing the few resources I have in the restaurant business.   How few those resources are, is private and confidential.   Period. I need partners of course, but my terms will be rather difficult to meet because they might be anti-social and violate some constitutional clauses. Naming ceremony first.   Children born in Africa are super important.   They have elaborate ceremonies to give them names. The name of the restaurant chain will be : No questions asked.   No answers provided .   Make that No-No for short.   People who enter No-No restaurants will sign the waiver that they will not ask the following questions.   1.        Can I substitute the French fries (also called chips) for a salad? 2.        Are the anchovies in the Salad Niçoise fished in pollution-free oceans? 3.        Can i have two plates because we will share a meal? 4.        Do you have bottled water from the Swiss Alps? 5.        Can I have the Fettuccine Alfredo witho