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Beating the Check: How to Eat Out Without Paying
Pissed-off restaurant worker Mick Shaw lets fly at the restaurant industry in this heart-felt manual, and reveals all the techniques for Beating The Check he has learned in his years of low-paying wage slavery. Here are a few of the schemes and scams he reveals to you:
-- When and Where to Attack. The best restaurants to use these tricks against, and the best times to use them. Which restaurants you should never try to scam.
-- The Simplest Scams. How to complain and what to complain about. Letter writing and phone calling. How to scam a restaurant you've never even eaten at.
-- How to leave without paying, and what to do if you are caught.
-- Penny Shaving and Playing "Accountant" with the bill.
-- How to use children as pawns when you are eating for free.
-- The Missing Phone Number, The Fake Injury, Getting Kicked Out, and The Object in the Food: More Difficult Scams.
-- The three best weapons for restaurant scammers to use.
-- And much more.Beating The Check is a book that can greatly reduce your food costs -- plus, it's fun, and you will have great stories to tell! So take a tip from Mick Shaw and devour this book today. Sold for informational purposes only.
-- When and Where to Attack. The best restaurants to use these tricks against, and the best times to use them. Which restaurants you should never try to scam.
-- The Simplest Scams. How to complain and what to complain about. Letter writing and phone calling. How to scam a restaurant you've never even eaten at.
-- How to leave without paying, and what to do if you are caught.
-- Penny Shaving and Playing "Accountant" with the bill.
-- How to use children as pawns when you are eating for free.
-- The Missing Phone Number, The Fake Injury, Getting Kicked Out, and The Object in the Food: More Difficult Scams.
-- The three best weapons for restaurant scammers to use.
-- And much more.Beating The Check is a book that can greatly reduce your food costs -- plus, it's fun, and you will have great stories to tell! So take a tip from Mick Shaw and devour this book today. Sold for informational purposes only.
66 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 2000
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July 25, 2012
I think anyone who's ever had the dubious honor of waitressing in a chain restaurant at the mercy of horrible and cheapass customers, and with no backup from your corporate employer would enjoy an ascerbic thumb-through of this little piece. Even though this is well and stridently written, with impeccable grammar and lashing wit, and one of the atrategms even involves math that I haven't figured out how to solve, I still am pretty sure this was written in one weekend by someone who was most definitely really really stoned and slightly unhinged. Which is probably what made me like it.
April 30, 2008
I love Loompanics. All their books have the same aggressive, cynical tone that makes them a delight to read. I have an abiding respect for food service workers and I wouldn't pull any of the capers suggested in this book, but it's just a lovely object to own and I'm so glad fringe things like this could see print.
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