"Chris French" wrote in message
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In message , Charles Hope
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In article , Tim Watts
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On 09/07/15 20:49, Mike Barnes wrote:
DerbyBorn wrote:
A nice thing about a holiday is being served properly even in an
inexpensive restaurant. Why do we put up with having to queue at the
bar with our table number in the UK?

Ha! It sounds like you haven't been to one of those places in Italy
where you have to pay the cashier without the benefit of a menu or the
ability to see or point to what you want, then take the receipt to
another counter where the food is displayed so that you can place your
order and hand over the receipt. They're a nightmare for anyone
without
reasonably good Italian.


Italy? That sounds like something from the Soviet era!

I don't think they had one of those there. It's a good way of minimising
theft.

It was a common way for the shops to be organised in Russia in those days.

It used to be the way that it worked in many shops in the UK up until the
50s

staff just weren't trusted with money and only the guy locked in the cash
kiosk could touch it

tim