Posted on 08/26/2019 9:26:04 AM PDT by C19fan
A hot day in a foreign country.
You sit at a café. You order something to drink. You get 350 milliliters of liquid — roughly four thirsty sips, if you want to be technical — and if you’re still dry you need to order another 350 milliliters of whatever it was you were drinking, and they will keep track, and you will pay for each 350-milliliter installment.
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I’m frugal (fancy word meaning cheap)
I eat where they don’t care if you refill your drink until you explode :-)
I have wondered if IHOP has essentually meter-stopped the servings of coffee they dish out by use of the finite decanter they leave on the table. I have never seen anyone ask for that thing to be filled up and I never would myself considering our local IHOP always serves stale coffee to begin with.
If/When I pay #2.75 for a glass of tea or soda - I WILL be getting as many refills as I want.
Or some dumb waiter won’t be getting a tip/
I asked for free refills at the bar. Even brought my own mug from home. Apparently they have never heard of such a thing around here as well...
[[You can tell you are deep in the Northeast corridor when restaurants stop offering free refills.]]
meh- whenever i was there we always got refills- course that was in the smaller towns-
I do like glasses etched with a volume line. Too many servers now seem to think ‘pint’ is synonymous with ‘container of some random volume.’
We must’ve drank at the same bar. I begged and they still refused.
Free refills are prepaid refills. You pay for all in the price of the first filling.
I was in England back in May this year.
It was annoying at this particular hotel to have to go to the bar for ice for the room. And wait 5 minutes for the ice as the bartender did ‘more ‘important’ stuff.
No machine to make ice that we had access to.
I noticed now on flights, you don’t even get the full can of soda anymore.
Luckily for me, I quit soda. But still.
A couple of restaurants we frequent now serve soft drinks by the can. It's no big deal, the cost is about the same for the volume I usually drink at a restaurant.
Yeah, they want to just give you the cup and keep the can, but if you tell them to fork over the can, they will give it to you.
Up North if you order tea they’ll bring a 6 oz cup and a tea-bag. Here in North Texas when you order tea they ask sweet or unsweet then they’ll bring a 16 oz tumbler with ice and keep topping it up until you ask them to stop (it’s a tip getter).
Some restaurants charge $3.50 for “endless reflls” of coffee. Since I only drink one cup, I order water. You can see their faces drop.
In UT you get not only free refills but also free “one to go”, That is true almost everywhere here.
Profit margin is high. Or they wouldn't do it in the first place.
The all-you-can-eat buffet is based on the same business model.
Never go to an all-you-can-eat buffet.
That is subject matter for another thread entirely.
The first time our German exchange student got a restaurant soda, he was upset they cheated with all the ice. We explained about free refills and he just couldn’t believe it. And free condiments. And free take home plastic drink cups. We sent him back with a bunch of plastic drink cups.
He also couldn’t get over the size of steaks in Texas or that bacon was more than just a flavoring ingredient.
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