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pltrgyst <pltrgyst@spamlessxhost.org> wrote in
news:mrnue0tf0oluge2la7efislfshgb7vioqg@4ax.com: 

> Well, it's clearly your fault for not drinking enough wine to begin
> with, or you wouldn't be here rousing rabble.

You know me better than that, Larry! But I suppose I'd be better off if I 
started drinking before I go into the restaurant :-)

> But seriously (hi, Archie), I notice this too in approximately one
> third of the "better" restaurants we visit. Not the IaLWs, or the
> Charlestons, but the second tier.

I'm gonna have to start taking notes to get a better idea of where/when 
it happens. 

> I wonder if they want you to have a cocktail first? And if you did,
> would the wine list arrive tout suite without request following
> delivery of the drinks? 

Well, one might naively expect (knowing what their markups are) that they 
make more profit on a bottle of wine than on a single pre-meal cocktail.

I'm still wondering what the _business_ case is for not just handing you 
the darn thing with the menus.

-- 
Archie

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