Stormy
07-31-06, 01:19
Brasserie Petanque.
San Telmo.
Defensa 595
4342 7930
This experienceis a very mixed bag and I wish it did not have to be so. Brasserie Petanque is French, in the style of Alsace, I guess. A tavern with some pretty darned good food. I particularly enjoy the charcut, a mix of sausages and saurkraut and potatos and some lively mustard. There is a full bar and and a lot of traffic outside so you don't have to worry about catching a cab back. The wine list is decent and not expensive with a Santa Julia Vognier at 24 p and my main at 26 p.
The problem was with the bill and the lies that came after. As with Nixon, it is not in the deed, but lying about it. When the bill was brought, it was for 72.50 but did not add up to that. There were three additions at the table between me and my dining companion who is not in the least bit foolish. The bill added up to 70.00. We pointed this out and they brought another bill, this time for 72.50
Again, and with an adjustment, 2.50 more pesos had been added on as cubierto (cover charge) For whatever reason, chief among them, that the employees were ripping the place off, and the manager for the evening, I guess, was sitting in the table just ahead of us, I pointed out to him that we had gotten a different bill than we started with. The hostess, vigorously denied that it was possible to change anything and that we had not gotten a second bill. Had we not added up the bill three times by two people, I would have let it go. But this kind of lying thieving corruption by the hostess really offended me. I doubt the manager was the owner and he had been drinking heavily all the time we were there. He said "The computer doesn't lie." At this point, the battle was lost. He was either drunk and / or incompetent. No, the computer does not lie, but employees do and they had gotten into the system for some small continuous graft, I suspect. Why else would someone deny something over such a small amount. The hostess insisted that she had not changed the bill but she had.
Frankly, I regret the decision to raise a fuss, because I cannot go back there and a good charcut is a terrible thing to waste.
In this case GDAP (General Dickhead Accounting Principles) were applied
but management rejected the conclusions. It may be a bit naive to think that management even wants to know.
San Telmo.
Defensa 595
4342 7930
This experienceis a very mixed bag and I wish it did not have to be so. Brasserie Petanque is French, in the style of Alsace, I guess. A tavern with some pretty darned good food. I particularly enjoy the charcut, a mix of sausages and saurkraut and potatos and some lively mustard. There is a full bar and and a lot of traffic outside so you don't have to worry about catching a cab back. The wine list is decent and not expensive with a Santa Julia Vognier at 24 p and my main at 26 p.
The problem was with the bill and the lies that came after. As with Nixon, it is not in the deed, but lying about it. When the bill was brought, it was for 72.50 but did not add up to that. There were three additions at the table between me and my dining companion who is not in the least bit foolish. The bill added up to 70.00. We pointed this out and they brought another bill, this time for 72.50
Again, and with an adjustment, 2.50 more pesos had been added on as cubierto (cover charge) For whatever reason, chief among them, that the employees were ripping the place off, and the manager for the evening, I guess, was sitting in the table just ahead of us, I pointed out to him that we had gotten a different bill than we started with. The hostess, vigorously denied that it was possible to change anything and that we had not gotten a second bill. Had we not added up the bill three times by two people, I would have let it go. But this kind of lying thieving corruption by the hostess really offended me. I doubt the manager was the owner and he had been drinking heavily all the time we were there. He said "The computer doesn't lie." At this point, the battle was lost. He was either drunk and / or incompetent. No, the computer does not lie, but employees do and they had gotten into the system for some small continuous graft, I suspect. Why else would someone deny something over such a small amount. The hostess insisted that she had not changed the bill but she had.
Frankly, I regret the decision to raise a fuss, because I cannot go back there and a good charcut is a terrible thing to waste.
In this case GDAP (General Dickhead Accounting Principles) were applied
but management rejected the conclusions. It may be a bit naive to think that management even wants to know.