May 25, 2007
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crazy hippies!
Have you ever had to give a credit card in advance with restaurant reservations? I just got asked to. On the plus side, the name she has for me is not the name on the card, and she totally didn't get the entire credit card number. For some reason, I just don't feel real motivated to correct her on those points.
still ... how very odd.
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Ew.
) That's offensive on more levels than I can think of. 
) Do you think it's just an obnoxious policy, or do you think it's part of a scam? You see articles in the paper all the time about that kind of thing at restaurants... the last one I specifically remembered was at the little garden cafe at the FW Botanic Gardens a while back, but it's pretty common.
I'm pretty sure it's an obnoxious policy - it's for a pretentious teahouse that you have to make > 24 hr in advance reservations for "so they can bake enough". Is it so hard to sell extra pastry?
But damn - I'm willing to handle some pretentiousness to have a fancy ass tea party!
Ah, okay, I can kind of see that. ;o) What happens if they try to bake a truckload of petits-fours for you and you don't show?
) I tried making petits-fours for the last tea party I went to... they were horribly ugly, but remarkably delicious. They were not cosmetically worthy of making it to the tea party itself, but evaporated very quickly at work. 
) Good luck with your tea party! 
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So...are they going to try and charge you if you're a noshow? I find that kinda scary.
yeah, they say they'll charge 20% (of 14.95/person, 3 people) for no shows. since i don't intend to no show, AND they don't have my cc # I'm not worried. But I think I would deliberately fake a # if I ran into this again...
They are definitely structuring this to be welcoming to parties - so when you're scheduling a whole bridal shower or something, I can see that this makes sense. but for small groups who just want tea, it's just dumb.
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