For a week, our journalist took up the challenge of consuming better for the environment. A receipt that hardly saves paper. But the store only prints it on demand. – C. Quélais / 20 Minutes
One restaurant, Tom’s Diner in Denver, Colorado (USA), adds 38 cents, or 34 cents, to a customer’s bill for each “silly question” asked, reports the American daily. Today. This supplement appears clearly on the invoice.
On a sales receipt published on Reddit, after the two dishes invoiced to the customer, the mention “stupid question” appears. “It was on the menu to make you smile,” said a former chef at Tom’s Diner in a comment below the published photo. He also states that “servers never add this supplement unless a client requests it.”
Customers disappointed not to be billed
This tax, whose price has varied over the years, appears as a supplement on the menu for more than 20 years and is the particularity of this restaurant open 24 hours a day. “Customers are often disappointed not to be charged for asking a stupid question, so they ask one voluntarily so that the waiter can add it to the bill,” said the former cook.
“The majority of customers understand that this is a joke and something fun,” said Hunter Landry, manager of the place. “When we have a funny table joining us or when they ask questions about this tax, it’s always fun to add it,” said the man who is also the nephew of the founder of the restaurant. “This is a way of not taking yourself seriously,” he concludes.
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