NYC XYZ wrote:
> Say, what's this crazy fee for sharing that, apparently, some
> restaurants charge??
>
> There is this spanish restaurant that charged me some kind of penalty
> fee for sharing a pot of seafood paella (or whatever the hell it's
> called) with my date who doesn't eat much. The pot of boiled rice and
> seafood bits (big deal!), a salad, and two soups was like $30 already,
> and the manager charged me like another $6 for sharing! WTF is up with
> this??? Is this a very common practice in hoity places?? el senor
> claims it's for having to wash the "extra" dishes and ultensils...?how
> do you say WTF in espagnol? I dine rather widely and have never heard
> of this BS.

I guess you don't get out much, as sharing fees have been on the menu
for decades. Often the wait staff doesn't enforce the sharing fee,
especially if the total order per person is sufficiently high. Other
restaurants implement a minimum order amount per person, which I think
is a fairer way of ensuring that seats are not used by people that
aren't ordering enough to cover the fixed costs.

The Spanish restaurant we go to on occasion, requires two orders to make
a paella, they won't do it for one person.