Return-Path: Received: from GS37.SP.CS.CMU.EDU by K.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa16630; 25 Oct 93 19:25:35 EDT Date: Mon, 25 Oct 93 19:24:44 EDT From: Erik.Seligman@GS37.SP.CS.CMU.EDU To: bovik@GS37.SP.CS.CMU.EDU Xref: cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu pgh.food:1357 Newsgroups: pgh.food Path: cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!eriks From: eriks+@cs.cmu.edu (Erik Seligman) Subject: DON'T eat at Sweet Basil in Squirrel Hill Message-ID: Sender: news@cs.cmu.edu (Usenet News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: gs37.sp.cs.cmu.edu Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon Distribution: pgh Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1993 19:04:50 -0400 Lines: 32 Tonight I went to eat with two friends at Sweet Basil; we had one of those Entertainment buy-one-get-one-free coupons. When the bill came, the waiter had subtracted the smallest of the three, rather than the second highest, so I asked him to subtract the other one. He said he didn't know about that stuff, and got the manager. The manager explained that in the 'fine print' it says that if >2 people eat, the smallest value at the table gets subtracted. While I didn't like this, it was no big deal (only a $2 difference), but being a mathematical type, I thought I'd explain to him the illogic of this: Me: "But you realize that this means that by bringing you more business, we get a smaller discount..." Him: "Well, we're pretty crowded tonight, I'm not short of business." Me: "True, but if, for example, just one of my friends had come, we would have bought less and gotten a bigger discount." Him: "Listen, I'm tired of this hassle, and [angrily walking away] I DON'T NEED YOUR BUSINESS." Like I said, I had not even raised my voice or anything, and as we spoke I had been getting out my wallet to pay. Yet this manager would act like that over a question involving $2.00?!? I assumed that the store owner would want to know about his incompetent employees, so as the guy was walking away I asked his name. "You don't need my name. I'm the owner, and I don't want your business." But if the owner of a restaurant is that rude, I'm certainly not going back.