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[novapsyche]

Yesterday, two of my co-workers invited me out for lunch. After going around and around about which restaurant, we finally decided on Bennigan's. It's just a few parking lots over from ours, so I think proximity played into the decision.

Our server, after taking our orders, told us of this program of theirs called "Lunch Time Crunch". There was a stopwatch on our table, and he started it after explaining that if we didn't have our food in the time allotted (which was 15 minutes), it was free.

I was keeping a pretty close eye on the time during that last minute. When our server returned with our food, he said, "Let's see how we did."

"You were so close!" I said as he picked up the stopwatch. "You missed it by 30 seconds."

"Yes. Well, that means your food is on us. I'll get the manager to come out here and verify with you that your meal is free." He didn't seem terribly excited that we were getting a free lunch, but at least he tried to keep a straight face about it. (I wouldn't be surprised if he's somehow penalized for every deadline missed.)

We left him a nice tip, as he still made a good effort to check in with us. (My co-worker left him a generous tip primarily because he was "cute".)

A nice break in an otherwise long workday.

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[zendifferential.livejournal.com]

*laugh*

this is funny.