"Janet" > wrote in message
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> Julie Bove wrote:
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> What is "stupid," IMHO, is thinking that a chain restaurant would object
> to two people just ordering drinks when part of a larger party eating a
> regular meal.

Not all chain restaurants have minimum orders but some do. The waitress at
Olive Garden pulled an attitude on me because I only ordered an appetizer
and salad. She made a big deal about how I would have to pay separately for
the salad. Well excuse me Olive Garden but if your order of gluten free
pasta didn't have 96g of carbs I might have ordered that and had a free
salad! BTW the appetizer sucked. It was flat bread with tomatoes and
cheese. And apparently when treated as they did to it, it goes soggy.
Soggy flatbread is not my thing.