Eating Out Picking Up The Tab
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