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But it's hard to imagine a situation where two people go to a restaurant and only one eats.
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I dined out with a group of women for over ten years, on a fairly regular basis; and one of them never ordered anything, unless someone offered to pay. Otherwise, she sat there and drank water.
I have a favorite restaurant in the city where my daughter lives. They make wonderful food for meat eaters and vegetarians alike, but they are on the pricy side.
One meatless dish that looks wonderful is a plate of black beans and rice with vegetables...but I've never ordered it because no matter how good it looks, I have trouble paying $17 for rice and beans.
I have trouble paying that for rice and beans also, so I'd expect the service to be excellent, for what I'm paying.
I paid around 20 bucks for a cauliflower steak on grains. It was so worth it, I have no idea how they made it taste so good.
We normally split plates at chains or restaurants where they serve more food than we know we should eat. We will split a hamburger and fries at a local burger place. At higher end restaurants they serve a more reasonable amount, well prepared, more expensive and it's usually date night or something, so we splurge on calories.
We split when we travel because we have to throw away and leftovers, and eating out for a few weeks will pack on pounds.
The fitness guy at DH's work posted pics of food from restaurants (Chili's, etc.) with the calories and fat. It was insane, they had to be injecting everything with lard!
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I dined out with a group of women for over ten years, on a fairly regular basis; and one of them never ordered anything, unless someone offered to pay. Otherwise, she sat there and drank water.
yeah, she really needed to be voted off the island
I paid around 20 bucks for a cauliflower steak on grains. It was so worth it, I have no idea how they made it taste so good.
We normally split plates at chains or restaurants where they serve more food than we know we should eat. We will split a hamburger and fries at a local burger place. At higher end restaurants they serve a more reasonable amount, well prepared, more expensive and it's usually date night or something, so we splurge on calories.
We split when we travel because we have to throw away and leftovers, and eating out for a few weeks will pack on pounds.
The fitness guy at DH's work posted pics of food from restaurants (Chili's, etc.) with the calories and fat. It was insane, they had to be injecting everything with lard!
Chili's doesn't care if adults order kids meals, but of course that severely limits choices. They have more choices than most places, though.
I dined out with a group of women for over ten years, on a fairly regular basis; and one of them never ordered anything, unless someone offered to pay. Otherwise, she sat there and drank water.
lol,,,this I find funny... why would she even go??
she would sit and drink water and watch others eat??
or ultimately someone would feel sorry for her and treat her??
you ladies treated her for 10 years??? you ladies are saints
that's the difference between men and women....guys would shame this guy after one outing
Me and my husband and another couple eat out on the weekends . We recently went to a local place that we have loved for years and now there is a sign up that says " no sharing of plates " . My friends were the ones who noticed first and she said that was new and I agreed .We asked the waitress when that started and she said just last week we have new owners now . Well you can certainly tell by the food that they have new owners and we have decided we wont go back and apparently we are not the only ones judging by the reviews on yelp . Wonder why a lot of restaraunts are doing this now ? , surely they know that they will loose some customers over that do they not ? how many of you have done the plate sharing thing ?
I have not noticed this. A few places charge a sharing fee But it's generally only a few dollars. Portion are huge in most restaurants.
Me and my husband and another couple eat out on the weekends . We recently went to a local place that we have loved for years and now there is a sign up that says " no sharing of plates " . My friends were the ones who noticed first and she said that was new and I agreed .We asked the waitress when that started and she said just last week we have new owners now . Well you can certainly tell by the food that they have new owners and we have decided we wont go back and apparently we are not the only ones judging by the reviews on yelp . Wonder why a lot of restaraunts are doing this now ? , surely they know that they will loose some customers over that do they not ? how many of you have done the plate sharing thing ?
I don't know of any restaurants in my area that don't allow sharing but they do post that one must pay an extra few dollars if one wants to share a plate/entree
yeah, she really needed to be voted off the island
Maybe she was broke? So you are only willing to be friends with people who have enough money to keep up with your entertainments? How was her not eating harming any of the people who were eating? You really have a twisted view of things.
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