On Wednesday, February 24, 2016 at 4:57:38 AM UTC-5, sf wrote:
> >
> I hate it when they come at me with that gigantic pepper grinder.
> This isn't the 60s. Unless they are stuck in a time warp, everybody
> has at least one pepper grinder now and nobody is impressed by that
> huge thing. I'm actually embarrassed for the waiter who has to do it,
> because it's so silly and pretentious.


MY guess would be that since even small fancy restaurants have at least ten(?) tables, the management doesn't want the waiters to waste time by constantly refilling the grinders. That would be one reasonable explanation for the size, anyway.

Lenona.