Monday, September 21, 2009

I Ordered Food From Where?

Tonight, I had to work a little late. While delaying my arrival home is sad, it is sometimes fun to order food from a new restaurant on the client's tab. The firm has an online ordering system where we pick one of about two hundred restaurants, click what we want on the menu, and the restaurant brings it to us. I don't generally order anything fancy - and today, I just felt like some cheap New York diner food. I picked a diner that I had never heard of, and the menu was filled with all sorts of cheap little items. They were really cheap. I don't know why I care about ordering relatively cheap - it's not my money...and if the client is paying my fee, they could really care less about the cost of my dinner. I ordered a variety of little things - a chicken burrito, nachos and a taco. That came to only about twelve bucks with tax and tip (a small fraction of my budget). In New York, that's really, really cheap (it's the least I've ever spent ordering on dinner). The food took forever to arrive. About forty-five minutes after ordering, I got a call and went down and picked up my food. The delivery guy handed me a brown paper bag that was stapled and stuck inside a plastic bag that was tied shut. After getting back to my desk, I tore open the bags. Inside the the two outer bags was a third bag - a Taco Bell bag. Yep, this "diner" just found a local Taco Bell, ordered my food, and brought it to me. Not such a great deal after all.

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