eat it and beat it v. phr.— « Whatever happened to the local colloquial term for running out on a restaurant tab—“chew ‘n’ screw”? Or the more universal phrase: “eat it & beat it.”» —“IHOP loses bid to get drop on...
langostino lobster n.— «Olympia Snowe has asked that restaurants be banned from calling a certain kind of shellfish lobster as it has taken millions of dollars from Maine fisherman as well as deceived the public. Many restaurants now use...
autograt n. a tip that is included as a charge on a restaurant bill rather than left to a diner’s discretion. Etymological Note: From automatic gratuity. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
autograt n.— «The only way to fairly and legally deal with autograt is to make it truly automatic and not up to a server’s discretion. If a server chooses to grat green people and not purple people, or short people and not tall people...
grat v.— «The only way to fairly and legally deal with autograt is to make it truly automatic and not up to a server’s discretion. If a server chooses to grat green people and not purple people, or short people and not tall people, the...
auto grat n.— «Ad grat, or auto grat, as it’s know in the biz, is a restaurant standard that means gratuity is automatically added to a check. Generally the gratuity is 18 percent, it’s added on the pre-taxed total for large parties...