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Is this an age related thing?
| Thu, 04-12-2007 - 9:45am |
(Totally OT, not SAH/WOH related, so feel free to not respond)
I went out with 5 other women to dinner last night.

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Erin
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POST 488
You said you cannot code, so you can't prove it
Very good point. I have worked in the service industry a few times and I went out of my way to be helpful to customers. My job was to serve them and make their experience a pleasant one. I made very good tips by conducting myself in this way.
Robin
You refused to respond to any of my questions about the back end of your program, getting bent out of shape like I was asking for sensitive banking information. If you do not respond, then you do not know how the back end works like you claim.
Why do you not want to prove anything?
whew! i had to go back a bit to figure out what was going on LOL.
when i posted that repsonse i had misunderstood what the poster was saying. i thought that the waitstaff automatically split checks without being asked to do so - something that i find to be presumptious. think about it, a server not spiltting a check for a married couple, but assuming a homosexual couple would want seperate checks not realizing they are together - that sort of thing.
however, when a party goes out to dinner together, it is more than reasonable for the resteraunt to assume that it will all be on one tab, unless otherwise indicated - as that is customary when dining out.
if the resteraunt wants to have a policy that allows for splitting checks, and they want the waitstaff to ask before starting the check (i would guess thats what would have to be done depending on the computer system they have) then thats OK too. around here, we don't do that (split checks for large parties).
then again, in most of the resteraunts i have worked in, or dined at the idea of splitting a check even for a small party is thought of as odd, unless itsa business lunch or something to that effect. there really is no reason for splitting the check, and in the high end upscale resteraunts splitting checks and/or asking for prices is considered about as rude as belching at the table.
"I'm pretty sure I've seen checks that weren't split, yet were listed individually on one check - so by seat number but we didn't ask for separate checks."
Yep, the pub example I gave - oh a hundred or so posts ago I think - had software that did this. And this was also years ago. All we had to do was find our unique meal/drink combo to know our total. I personally knew the waitresses there and have watched them use the software, and it was so easy to use
There is no reason to explain the back end of my program to you to prove that it is virtually impoosible to hit a split checks button and certain orders will be split. You have to tell the computer what you are going to split then you can hit the split button.
Like i said from the very beginning there is more to splitting chceks then a hit of one button as you calim.
BTW i was not bent out of shape, your assuming.
I should not have to prove to you that you cannot split a check with one hit of a button, it should be common sense that it takes more than a button to actually split the orders inot eight seperate checks if you really knew how to split checks.
What is there to debate. Are you saying that, after you feed the computer the information of what orders are being split onto one check, then you hit a split scheck button? Im not arguing that. Iam telling you you cannot complete that task of splitting checks with one hit of a button.
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