ZedBanty > wrote:

>I don't know about that practice enough to comment on it as far as propriety (I
>don't defend it or condemn it at this point), but you should know that
>restaurants operate on a fairly small margin. And that margin is met by having
>a certain throughput of diners per seat through the day. If their meals are
>often shared (paella as a speciality may be especially subject to that), they
>effectively have fewer diners than they've hosted. That's both an opportunity
>cost and a real cost.

To my way of thinking, if the genre of food is normally shared
(and that would include Spanish food), it is more nonsensical
to charge for sharing.

Steve