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Re: Free water

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From: Jerry N. Alexandratos
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 1994 16:35
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(Charging for water foolishness deleted)
>Let me guess -- the explanation was that the cups are used to compute
>inventory of how many cups of soda were sold (etc., etc., etc.).  From my
>...
>Worst of all, it doesn't do a damned thing to stop the pilferage, anyway.
>
>-- Jonathan Crawford

Agreed:
	I have seen some places charge you "$0.00", in order to help track
	inventory.  This was done for every beverage, with a separate charge fo
	the soda, etc.  It works the same alleged way without alienating 
	customers.

	jna.
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Subject: Re: Free water
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