Some years back I was down visiting someone who had a summer job in a bar in Dorset. The owner would take a busload to Paris every year - he spoke French and knew his way around. The bars around the area they were out in were notorious for overcharging tourists, but the thing is the way things work over there are that the waiter is self employed and pays back the cost of the drinks to the bar.

They walked into a bar, he organiser checked the price with the waiter, 40 of them sat down, drinks arrived, bill went down on the table, the organiser took one look at the bill told everybody to stop drinking, they all put their drinks down and left the bar - left the waiter to pay the bill.
On Tue, 8 Jun 2021 22:10:36 +0100, ARW
wrote:

On 08/06/2021 21:39, Tim Lamb wrote:
In message , Chris Bacon
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On 08/06/2021 19:30, ARW wrote:
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Since when did uk.d-i-y turn into a crapposting group? Thank God for
filters, plonk.

Lighten up, Chris. The rest of us are struggling to avoid endless** OT
tit for tats:-(

The stupid **** is likely to block his own posts.

My brother informs me:

'Some years back I was down visiting someone who had a summer job in a
bar in Dorset. The owner would take a busload to Paris every year - he
spoke French and knew his way around. The bars around the area they
were in were notorious for overcharging tourists, but the way things
work over there is that the waiter is self employed and pays back the
cost of the drinks to the bar.

'They walked into a bar, the organiser checked the price with the
waiter, 40 of them sat down, drinks arrived, bill went down on the
table, the organiser took one look at the bill told everybody to stop
drinking, they all put their drinks down and left the bar - left the
waiter to pay the bill.'