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Many restaurants (quite possibly most) take away the menus after you've ordered and traditionally had to bring them back if you wanted dessert/another round of
by Arainach 3y ago
Many restaurants (quite possibly most) take away the menus after you've ordered and traditionally had to bring them back if you wanted dessert/another round of drinks/etc. If they left menus, they're fighting space on what is often a table barely large enough to hold a plate for everyone seated at it
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- bluGill 3y agoThey took menus away to discourage changing your mind
- addandsubtract 3y agoWho changes their mind after ordering?
- cortesoft 3y agoNo they don’t. They take them away to make room on the table for your food.
- prmoustache 3y agoUsually the waiter take back the menu right after you ordered so I doubt it.
- bluGill 3y agoThat is why the waiter took them away. Wome seem to interput what I said as why some are taking away paper menus, not what I meant
- prmoustache 3y agoMost of the time the only reason is there is just no room on the table for the menus to be kept. There are a few places (usually burger joints) where the menu is a piece of paper that actually serve as a placemat that the waiters won't take back from you. I doubt a lot of people are changing their mind. I've rarely seen that.
- eszed 3y agoNah. They take away physical menus because they need them for the next guests. Restaurants never - even high-end ones (which might be surprising, but high-end restaurants have more-expensive to produce menus) - never have enough menus. Owners skimp on printing menus because they're as penny-foolish as any other out-of-touch manager. At the worst places waiters hurry guests' orders, and hang around trying to intercept menus from each other. It creates a whole load of unnecessary stress: just make some more damn menus! Source: waited lots of tables in lots of restaurants.