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18th September 2014, 12:36
#1
How to get thrown out of a restaurant (and you didn’t even mention the word ‘fluoride’).
Scene in a Restaurant in Birmingham (UK)
CUSTOMER: “Could I have a glass of red wine and some water please?”
WAITER: “Tap water or mineral water?”
CUSTOMER: “Birmingham tap water isn’t water: it’s medicine. So I would like
bottled mineral or spring water please – free of charge”
WAITER: “But ..... we don’t provide free bottled water. We only have to provide
free tap water.”
CUSTOMER: “You can’t provide me with free tap water because it doesn’t exist in this City. The
Licensing Act 2003 states that you have to provide me with water free of charge if I have purchased
alcohol with my meal. However, you can’t provide me with free
tap water because in Birmingham it isn’t ‘water’ but a medicine.
Therefore, I suggest that you ought to provide me with free
natural mineral water or spring water. And please don’t suggest
table water because that’s probably tap medicine in a bottle.”
WAITER: “Duh”. ...................
MANAGER: “We’ll have to ask you to leave, sir. Please go quietly.”
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18th September 2014, 13:22
#2
I hope this was you, if so Good Lad Mark!
The courage to speak up in public is non-downloadable...
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18th September 2014, 16:32
#3
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18th September 2014, 16:51
#4
I understand what the customer's (who shall remain anonymous) point was and I appreciate that their goal was to bring attention to this matter.
However, I do wonder if going after the Indians is the best approach. We have to find the chiefs (and rankle them). The poor waiter (and these people are often working for very low wages) can't do anything about changing what's in the water - and I dare say the owner of the restaurant - all by himself can't do anything either, anymore than any of us, alone, can do anything.
Now if you organize a group of owners or a group of patrons, that might have some impact - otherwise the customer simply ruined an evening out and really didn't accomplish anything other than make themselves feel temporarily good, but what about the waiter, the owner, the other patrons who overheard and whoever the customer was with. It wouldn't have made me happy if my significant other did that on our one night out - and for what? Did it change anything or even have the potential of changing anything.
Not trying to put anyone down here, because we all do things ocassionally that in retrospect could have been handled in a more meaningful way, rather than us just taking out our grievances on someone who can't do anything about them. Sorry, am not trying to offend anyone here. Just throwing out another perspective.
Last edited by BabaRa, 18th September 2014 at 16:54.
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18th September 2014, 17:47
#5