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  JN> From: jwnagle@alw.nih.gov (Jim Nagle)

  JN> Last Friday my wife and I were travelling to VaBch and stopped at the
  JN> Ashland exit on I95 just north of Richmond and went into a Popeye's
  JN> right off the Interstate. The approximately $1-1.50 higher price on a
  JN> std 3 piece chicken dinner for a resturant right off the Interstate I
  JN> was not pleased by but not surprised by either. What did surprise me
  JN> was being told that water would be 0.20 (for the cup)...

  JN> Comments? I've seriously considered writing to both the syndicate
  JN> headqtrs for Popeyes and to the establishment in question basically to
  JN> ask them if they really think that the practice described above is a
  JN> good way to do business.

I agree with your feeling of being offended.  But... if it's basically a stop
off a busy freeway, they're probably saturated with people who drop in and
either want ten-cups-of-water-nothing-to-eat, or
one-piec-eof-chicken-ten-waters.  And I do have to sympathize with their
/problem/ (but not their solution!), if that's what prompts their behavior.

Locally, I've been to a few places that offered water free with purchases of
over $X (where "X" was a low number), and to a few that charged.  I won't buy
it, if they charge.

You might suggest to Popeye's -- both the local outlet AND the national
management -- that the existing policy is unfriendly and unfair.