Epic WTF

Everything's free in America....
..... for a small fee, in America.

West Side Story 1961, some things never change.

BBQ baby gem lettuce is the one. Fight me.

Also, tap water and health insurance all round please:

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Is that golf bat worthy?

In a world of infinite possibilities, there must be an overlap somewhere between musical theatre and golf clubs, but I suspect it's pretty small.

uh: https://www.backstage.com/magazine/article/golf-musical-16354/

In Luxembourg there's no requirement to give water for free in bars and restaurants so many don't. Want water with your meal, buy a bottle of it, rather than a glass from the tap. Lots of places do provide it, but it's not a legal thing, just a "We think water shouldn't cost 5 euros" sort of thing.

What, remembering a lyric from an old musical?

Nope, but the original bill (check if you're Murcan) is worthy of a baseball bat, preferably to the testicles.

I find the water chat odd.

One thing I loved about living in the States is that as soon as you sat down you'd get a large glass of ice and they'd bring a jug of waw-der. Bam. Straight off the bat. Never had to pay for it. Just repeat yourself 5 times when asking for a refill because you pronounced the 't'.

Everything else in the restaurant would cost a fucking fortune obvs.

I'm sure that was to pay their staff a decent wage

There's a decent wage and a decent wage though.

TBH I find the earnings of NYC waiting staff ridiculous. It's not like I want them to be on the breadline, but they're just bringing you food or opening a beer cap. I'm not sure what the logic of their earnings is.

It’s spectacularly expensive to live in NYC. It doesn’t surprise me that waiting staff demand high pay. Lots of people there have to work more than one job to get by.

Forgot to put sarcasm tags...

AFAIU waiting staff get paid dogshit and the customer is expected to top them up with tips

The whole percentage of the bill style tipping winds me up too. A 10 dollar plate tales as much effort to carry as a 200 dollar plate

worth getting massively irate on an Internet forum for.

"Everything is"...

don't they use clubs for golf, not bats?

mooching around just-eat while procrastinating about just-cooking some dinner when I came across this gem.

even if it has three 1/4lb burgers in it £15 for the burger alone is plenty wtf but then they want more than £6 for chips and a drink. further investigation shows this is the norm for their meal upgrade across the board.

wtf is going on at wimpy.

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I think the high wages are to compensate for the sort of people they have to deal with.

Wimpy is still going? I thought they went bust years ago!

I hope it’s still served on a plate.

Probably resuscitated by Sports Direct like every other 80s brand.

Indeed, why can’t they simply eat cake?

Nah, that is weird. Americans have a weird ice obsession

It's long been an international brand. Success elsewhere let them build back up a little here from their lowest point in the U.K. I once heard that Wimpy first popularised the beanburger, a product their Indian franchises came up with ffor obvious reasons.

Some drought stricken states/cities have outlawed that now. Can’t serve tap water until the customer asks for it.

The owner of that supermarket is german-chilean, also his father was a ss member of nazi party and escaped to south america.