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[–] 10 points 14 hours ago* (3 children)

Here's a non-wine related thing often charged by restaurants: a cake-cutting fee. The restaurant offers desserts which you won't be buying, and yet they are supplying you with plates and forks, and they will keep your cake safe in the kitchen until dessert, bring it out to be admired with maybe candles and a song, or a toast to the happy couple, then they'll cut and plate and pass the slices, and afterwards they'll wash the dishes. So they charge a fee to pay for the people and supplies.

We had a birthday party at a sushi train restaurant and brought a rainbow cake. We'd agreed to pay $20 or something over the total of all the sushi everyone ate. They turned down the lights and sent out the cake as individual slices on individual plates each with a lit candle flickering on it, and the teenagers loved it, which is pretty hard to do because teenagers.

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