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[TheSecondStain]

Any one that eats at Las Lagunas don't tip.


Las Lagunas will take tips from staff, even cash ones. They have a rule were the waiter has to pay 5% of the money the table they wait on pay if they are tipped.

So:

Table spends: £60
Waiter gets : £5 tip
Waiter has to give £3 to owner.

And where is this bloody awful place Beefy? Perhaps we can write something a bit damning in a Google review.

 

[Beef]

And where is this bloody awful place Beefy? Perhaps we can write something a bit damning in a Google review.

Gunwharf, amazing food but **** management. They are opening a place in Southampton soon. Hope they change the **** rule.

 

[TheSecondStain]

Gunwharf, amazing food but **** management. They are opening a place in Southampton soon. Hope they change the **** rule.

I'm serious about the Google review thing. People can point this sort of stuff out. It gets changes made. There was a pub in Eling, a few years back, with a terrible manager and all of a sudden the customers started to dwindle dramatically. It was because people started writing bad reviews in Google. It worked. Pub changed hands for the better. Should work even better with a restaurant.

 

[It’s Only A Game]

Any one that eats at Las Lagunas don't tip.


Las Lagunas will take tips from staff, even cash ones. They have a rule were the waiter has to pay 5% of the money the table they wait on pay if they are tipped.

So:

Table spends: £60
Waiter gets : £5 tip
Waiter has to give £3 to owner.

This may be getting sorted out by the Government. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/video_and_audio/headlines/36185042

 

[Number 1 Jasper]

Puts things in Perspective IMHO .


http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/36179795

 

[Number 1 Jasper]

Any one that eats at Las Lagunas don't tip.


Las Lagunas will take tips from staff, even cash ones. They have a rule were the waiter has to pay 5% of the money the table they wait on pay if they are tipped.

So:

Table spends: £60
Waiter gets : £5 tip
Waiter has to give £3 to owner.

**** that greedy bastards !

 

[Saint Helen]

Anyone been watching Hinterland which has escaped from BBC Wales to BBC4. It is a police series set in some godforsaken part of Wales that is so depressing even the sheep have to be kept away from loaded guns and sharp objects in case they off themselves. The director has learnt every trick of the trade from some book that sadly must have had some pages stuck together. No actor ever answers a question directly but prefers to brood into the middle distance....they stand looking at each other as if they are waiting for the director to yell cut or they have forgotten who has the next line.
Every actor, however small his part, has been told that he has some dramatic back story that can only be imparted by silent stares. Yes, I may be a lowly farmworker pointing out a cottage to a Police Inspector, but I am really a Polish concert pianist who can no longer play since my lover and unborn child died in a plane crash in the Alps. I am doomed to walk this windswept landscape forever giving policemen directions.
The main character tried to talk down a woman who was suicidal after killing her son...he told her that he felt responsible for the death of his daughter and you never get over it. She jumped....and I'm not even sure that was in the script. Faced with a war-damaged soldier with a loaded gun, would you a) take the gun and get help or b) join in a game of Russian roulette. I think you've guessed the answer.

I love it.

The actors' confusion could be caused by the fact that they filmed Hinterland in both English and Welsh at the same time

 

[TheSecondStain]

Anyone been watching Hinterland which has escaped from BBC Wales to BBC4. It is a police series set in some godforsaken part of Wales that is so depressing even the sheep have to be kept away from loaded guns and sharp objects in case they off themselves. The director has learnt every trick of the trade from some book that sadly must have had some pages stuck together. No actor ever answers a question directly but prefers to brood into the middle distance....they stand looking at each other as if they are waiting for the director to yell cut or they have forgotten who has the next line.
Every actor, however small his part, has been told that he has some dramatic back story that can only be imparted by silent stares. Yes, I may be a lowly farmworker pointing out a cottage to a Police Inspector, but I am really a Polish concert pianist who can no longer play since my lover and unborn child died in a plane crash in the Alps. I am doomed to walk this windswept landscape forever giving policemen directions.
The main character tried to talk down a woman who was suicidal after killing her son...he told her that he felt responsible for the death of his daughter and you never get over it. She jumped....and I'm not even sure that was in the script. Faced with a war-damaged soldier with a loaded gun, would you a) take the gun and get help or b) join in a game of Russian roulette. I think you've guessed the answer.

I love it.

From the description you've given it seems as though you love it in spite of yourself.

 

[TheSecondStain]

Puts things in Perspective IMHO .
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/36179795

I think it's important what he says of the NHS. The fact that they do great work despite being screwed around endlessly by Govt.

 

[fran-MLs little camera]

From the description you've given it seems as though you love it in spite of yourself.

I like Scandi-crime which is equally dark and brooding. I also strangely love sub-titles, though Hinterland is mainly in English on BBC4.

 

[Number 1 Jasper]

I think it's important what he says of the NHS. The fact that they do great work despite being screwed around endlessly by Govt.

Agree 100% ref the NHS . Though I agree with PIE that it's not just the Torys that meddle with it ( I am Labour BTW ) . the NHS should be treated far better no matter who is in power . We will ALL miss it if it ever goes !

Talk about you don't know what you have until it's gone ...........

 

[TheSecondStain]

I like Scandi-crime which is equally dark and brooding. I also strangely love sub-titles, though Hinterland is mainly in English on BBC4.

About sub-titles, I have the familiar initial dislike of them, but oddly, once I get into them I do enjoy programmes with subtitles. I classic case would be the Italian detective Inspector Montalbano stories that I started watching because of withdrawal systems of there being no more [Aurelio] Zen episodes.

I've tried to watch the dark and brooding Scandinavian stuff but it doesn't take. With or without sub-titles.

 

[TheSecondStain]

Agree 100% ref the NHS . Though I agree with PIE that it's not just the Torys that meddle with it ( I am Labour BTW ) . the NHS should be treated far better no matter who is in power . We will ALL miss it if it ever goes !

Talk about you don't know what you have until it's gone ...........

Indeed. It's why I said screwed around by Govt, and not screwed around by the Govt.

 

[fatletiss]

Uh oh - I suppose it would be unfair to tell you I just had a late brunch and am sitting down to do the crossword with a large coffee, good music playing in the background .......

 

[fatletiss]

Gunwharf, amazing food but **** management. They are opening a place in Southampton soon. Hope they change the **** rule.

There's one in MK too. I've been there twice. Food was ok not amazing.

 

[Number 1 Jasper]

Indeed. It's why I said screwed around by Govt, and not screwed around by the Govt.

Realised that

 

[TheSecondStain]

Bank Holiday shopping ... I don't deserve this

Uh oh - I suppose it would be unfair to tell you I just had a late brunch and am sitting down to do the crossword with a large coffee, good music playing in the background .......

Pretty much the same here. Just relaxing all day really. FLT has my sympathies.

 

[fatletiss]

Puts things in Perspective IMHO .


http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/36179795

I didn't realise he has to stop playing. He's 26. FFS.

Poor young man, but at least they've spotted it and he is alive.

 

[Number 1 Jasper]

I didn't realise he has to stop playing. He's 26. FFS.

Poor young man, but at least they've spotted it and he is alive.

Not only has he stopped playing, but any exercise may kill him.

 

[Schrodinger's Cat]

Uh oh - I suppose it would be unfair to tell you I just had a late brunch and am sitting down to do the crossword with a large coffee, good music playing in the background .......

Sounds like my day too . Am having some homemade mozzarella filled meatballs (Angus beef, wild boar and pork salami mix) with fresh pasta and a tomato sauce to die for, along with some olive n sun-dried tomato foccacia for tea later. Not a shop in site all day.
Cheers for the pint yesterday by the way Dave, nice to put faces to names