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Sunday, November 23, 2003
Beer & Underappreciated Barmaids
Suzette and I went to the Saucer tonight. There was a guy there who ordered what he thought was a $2.50 draft—all North Carolina pints are $2.50 on Sundays—but the computer was wrong. Now, I'm not going to get into bashing the Saucer's sofware and web site tonight, no matter how easy that would be to do, but let me just say that it's wrong to charge the waitress for obvious mistakes. The brew was in the system as a draft, but it was a $15 bottle. The guy who ordered it probably figured that was his whole bar tab, and then some, for the evening.
Enter Fritz, the nice guy. I took the waitress aside and told her that if she was going to be hit for the compter's mistake that I'd just buy the thing. So I walked out with a 1-liter bottle of beer. Fun, but not what I'd planned.
Anyway, I got bonus points with the waitress (yes, I know her name, but that's not what this site is about) for doing the right thing. Do me a favor: overtip next time you're out. Those folks put up with far worse assholes than you, and they deserve a break once in a while.
By the way, Highland's Cold Mountain Winter Ale is a very pleasantly malty, somewhat spicy brew reminiscent of hazelnuts. And it comes in a big-ass 1-litre bottle.
Posted 11/23/2003 22:29 by Fritz
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Yes, I understand that it wasn't the "the computer's mistake." It was whoever was responsible for the data entry. But it was't the waitress's error, either.
Posted by: Fritz at November 23, 2003 10:47 PM