To the person below that has a complaint about split checks; let me lay it out for you.
If the management at La Strada were to openly allow split checks for large parties on Sunday brunch, your service would be a lot slower. Sure they could hire more waiters and go to smaller sections, but then the compensation for working a grueling Sunday brunch shift that starts at 9am and often doesn?t end until after 7pm would be considerably less.
With large groups, especially on Sundays, there are people ordering drinks left and right. Some people are together on a tab while some claim to be alone. Problem is, the place gets so packed that when it comes time to pay up, someone could easily slip out of the door unnoticed. This has happened many times before and is the reason this new policy was implemented. If the check was indeed split, it would absolve anyone else at the table from having to pay the other portion of the bill. I have heard the phrase ?those weren?t MY drinks!? more times than I can remember.
When it boils down to it the no split checks rule on Sunday is more about holding the group as a whole accountable for their least honest member, than it is about laziness or lack of better hardware.
You should check your friends if you?re really worried that someone at your table isn?t going to step up and admit to a fair portion of the total unless they are assigned a specific amount. Or perhaps if you?re really concerned that you are going to spend a few extra dollars on a portion of the bill that was not yours, then maybe you should act your wage and abstain from Sunday funday at La Strada.
Oh and criticism about someone typing from a blackberry using ?U? instead of ?you? from someone who doesn?t know the difference between ?there? and ?their? is rich?thanks for the laugh.
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