item of food from your plate on the back of your fork at one time. As I stated, I’ve done this unthinkingly since forever. My question is whether that practice is generally considered to be a breach of good table manners.

before they ordered or only at check presenting time? Lots of issues that need to be sorted out. Either way, if its a breach of contract issue, that is a civil matter not a criminal one.

The restaurant is just being up front about their breach of contract. The price differences are indeed hefty and ILLEGAL if the resto has entered into a contract with the card companies (thieving bastards that they are.) In the...

breached the ball and it leaked into the water – wouldn’t taste anything at that point). The balls were a shade better than the ones I usually get from the Super 88, but hardly what I would expect from a great Chinese...

The bagel and cream cheese thread got me to thinking about the ways in which we chowhounds are a contradictory lot—so open-minded and adventurous in some ways and so vehemently opposed to what we consider breaches of cultural...

Shrimp Puffs, at the Chinese restuarant (Fung Lee??) at the International Food Court in the San Francisco Airport. When I passed thru the AP on the way home, I breached airport security by going back to the food court I bought 2...

I officially nominate Sam for sainthood... I am in a bit of a bind when someone just buys a pre-made food item and puts it on the table, like a premade dip, or microwaveable canelloni or stuff like that...

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place and meet you there. I just don’t see this is some egregious breach of etiquette. It’s not like they had reservations.

of ceviche, and commenced my “roach patrol” and whack 10 or 20 after I flipped on the lights. In Texas, they are called “tree roaches” to minimize the grossness and to provide an easy excuse that one of...

something like this. If the diner refuses to pay the “unspecified” special price, the restaurant can sue for breach based on course of dealing — i.e., there is an accepted custom and practice in the restaurant...

. But it would a breach of etiquette to even discuss anything to do with a gratuity; so I don’t tell them that I forward my gratuities — in all cases — to the staff that’s backing me up and helping me make...

, just because of all of the food safety breaches we’ve had lately. The Japanese grocery store near me carries a lot of things that are product of China, if you read the original label, but then the English label all say...

've posted on this topic before; while I’m really put off by guests' failure to reciprocate it is something that we tolerate and move beyond. But that does not mean that these friends are not committing and ongoing breach...

a freshly baked aromatic atrisan baguette and you don’t like frazzled pretzels, that’s a breach of contract on the part of the restaurant, not to mention false advertising. The customer is justified in refusing to...