I ate at a place in Budapest where the bread turned out not to be free. When you went up to pay they asked how many slices you had eaten and charged per!
In the UK at the moment it varies. Some places absorb sundries like bread & butter into the overall charges. Some add a 10% service charge which covers breakages, losses due to dine-and-dash, and sundries. Other places have an itemised charge for sundries.
The bread isn’t free in Lisbon. There’s a charge if you eat from the bread that’s put on the table.
So what do they do, just pass it around tables until someone rich eats it?
That’s EXACTLY what they do!
I ended up paying much money for BREADSTICKS that were left, because
a) I thought they were complimentary (hahahahaha)
and
b) the food took several eons to arrive and I was starving.
However, had I realised that they were more expensive, weight-for-weight, than fine rubies, I would have eaten the flatware instead.
BREADSTICKS are not even food . . . .
I ate at a place in Budapest where the bread turned out not to be free. When you went up to pay they asked how many slices you had eaten and charged per!
The little man felt very bad; one meatball was all he had. And in his dreams he hears the call: “You gets no bread with one meatball.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=li0qPwn4U8Y
Tom Pope!
The letter J in her name is pronounced like a Y, yes?
Jes!
Ja!
The same with parmigiano for your pizza. Sometimes I ask for it and it’s free. Sometimes not.
The bread is never free. But sometimes they hide the cost in the rest of the bill…
ah, my libertarian friend
Really enjoying today’s bread-troversy
Despite the T-shirt, Shelley will never live like common people.
Efogoto is right. You also pay (separately, and a lot) for any butter you may happen to want (I just got back from Portugal).
So Shelley ditched the braid in the few moments between yesterday’s strip and today?
She was working on it yesterday.
My dad was a baker and he used to braid the bread for special “French Sticks” at harvest time. You see – it all fits together…!
Dirk Gently could have told you this.
Being a female myself, I can tell you this is completely normal. Plus, in panel three of the last strip, you can see she is starting to pull on it.
If anyone here (in canada) charged me for bread, I would flip the table over.
Yes, but you’re Canadian, so you’d probably then feel bad and help tidy it up. This is why you’re loved.
Not quite so loved since the Yessica Janiv carry-on.
Come on Canada – come to your senses. You were the Voice of Reason in the North Americas, and now . . .
I subscribe for restaurant culture notes. And to find out if the blinds are really angled down.
It’s cute you think the blinds are functional.
In the UK at the moment it varies. Some places absorb sundries like bread & butter into the overall charges. Some add a 10% service charge which covers breakages, losses due to dine-and-dash, and sundries. Other places have an itemised charge for sundries.
But as Graham says, nothing is free.
As the man said, there ain’t no such thing as a free lunch. Or free bread with lunch. Or dinner. Or whatever.