From the depression times let me have bread and gravy with a glass of water (no charge for that) to the distasteful taking your kid along and pretending half way through the meal that the food made your child sick in order not to pay the bill, Patty Inglish highlights In How to Reduce Your Restaurant Bill (Hubpages), many ways to slash your restaurant bill in a recssion.
In London (UK), Peter Ilic of the Little Bay restaurant group adopted the Radiohead approach, Benedict Moore-Bridger reports in The pay-what-you-like restaurant (Evening Standard, February 2009).
Laura M.Holson takes a look at business recession etiquette in At the Power Lunch, the Check Is Kryptonite (NY Times, February 11) and we find out that instead of fighting over who pays the check, people are trying hard not to pick the tab or in the case of book publishing moved the lunch meeting from power spots to the local diner or even fast food joints…
Where have the perks gone?
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