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Dining Out - Pleasurable or Painful?
optom3:
--- Quote from: DavidinIndy on January 11, 2009, 12:24:24 am ---Around here the problem isn't small portions. The portions are much too large. I always have to ask for a doggie bag and I end up bringing half of my dinner home with me. I suppose that really isn't a problem, but it mystifies me why they want to serve such massive amounts of food. :-\
Hoovering waiters can be annoying too, unless they are cute... and single! ;)
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Ditto !
When we first arrived in America, I was astounded at the portion size. I was full after the bread basket and salad had been handed out. I also did not get the doggy bag concept.
Now we never have appetizers, or dessert, just the main course.
LauraGigs:
--- Quote from: jstephens9 on January 11, 2009, 01:12:35 pm ---I agree David that the portions are much too large, but it is true that you can also end up with two meals.
At one point in time I was going out to lunch pretty much every day with a group from work . . . The portions were huge. I quit doing that a few years ago. It saved me a lot of money too since that was a good $12 a day or more for lunch usually.
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Two meals is the key phrase! I don't go out often, but I love the "doggie bag concept". You have a whole 'nother meal, all cooked and figured out. I love it!!
jstephens9:
Speaking of large serving sizes, The Travel Channel just showed a place named Denny's (no not the breakfast restaurant) that serves a 15 pound cheeseburger!!!
Kelda:
that must be american. You dont really do doggy bags in the UK.
delalluvia:
I voted 'other'.
I don't really have big problems - unless I spot signs that things are none too clean :P
But the only thing I dislike is that if you're a single diner and you go out to eat, you run headon into the capitalist system at its ugliest. In the U.S. waiters make a lot of their money on tips, which means the more they turn over a table the better. I want to go out to eat and sit at my table for an hour enjoying a leisurely meal. I'm paying for it, I tip well, why am I being rushed out the door? Why am I looked down on because I didn't take a seat at the bar and leave the tables for real diners? >:(
I've had people in restaurants yell insults to me for doing this. WTF?!?!?
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