[C19fan]

You can tell you are deep in the Northeast corridor when restaurants stop offering free refills.

[Bobalu]

I’m frugal (fancy word meaning cheap)
I eat where they don’t care if you refill your drink until you explode :-)

[MachIV]

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.

[Responsibility2nd]

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/

[Hatteras]

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...

[Bob434]

[[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-

[posterchild]

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.’

[Dr. Sivana]

I was a Pizza Hut cook in the early '80s, when nobody was giving free refills, and McDonald's largest cup was 22 oz. for 40 cents. Addung insult, McDonald's default was to fill the cup 3/4's with crushed ice.

We filled the Pizza Hut cups for sit down similarly, and we had no free refills except on coffee and tea. The manager wanted to wring more money out of the poor customers, and had the waitresses fill the $2.29 PITCHERS with some amount of ice that I forget. That ended pretty quickly when a customer found he only got 2 1/2 cups out of a whole pitcher.

[I want the USA back]

Free refills are prepaid refills. You pay for all in the price of the first filling.

[small business owner]

Several restaurants in Sarasota are now charging for each cup of coffee.

[Oatka]

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.