Saturday Six – Episode 178

Last Updated on December 30, 2023

And you thought I had forgotten, didn’t you!

Actually, a bad experience at a restaurant earlier this week ended up inspiring the theme of this week’s questions. I’ll give you specifics of the bad experience in the next post.

Before this week’s questions, my friend Rick of “Mmmm, That’s Good Coffee…” was first to play last week. Congratulations, Rick!

Here are this week’s “Saturday Six” questions. Either answer the questions in a comment here, or put the answers in an entry on your journal…but either way, leave a link to your journal so that everyone else can visit! To be counted as “first to play,” you must be the first player to either answer the questions in a comment or to provide a complete link to the specific entry in your journal in which you answer the questions. A link to your journal in general cannot count. Enjoy!

1. As a general rule, how much of a tip do you leave on a normal night of satisfactory service at a restaurant?

2. What happens when the service and/or the food is completely unacceptable: how much of an impact does that have on your tip?

3. What was the last food you picked up from a restaurant and ate at home?

4. Take the quiz: What’s your pizza personality?

5. What was the last dish you tried to cook yourself based on a dish you sampled at a restaurant?

6. How close to the original recipe did yours get?

If you have a Reader’s Choice question you’d like to see asked (and answered), send me an email! I’d love to be able to include it in a future edition of the Saturday Six.

MY ANSWERS:
1. Normally about 20%.

2. If the service from the server is the problem, I’ll drop the tip to about 10%.

3. Mexican.

4. Pepperoni Pizza

Robust and dominant.
When you go for something, you go full force.
You tend to take control of situations easily.
And in return, you get a ton of respect.

5. New Orleans Pasta, from O’Toole’s in Richmond

6. Actually, I managed to do quite well with it, even though I left out the shrimp.