From UPI.com:
LONDON, Feb. 4 (UPI) — A London restaurant said it has begun a monthlong promotion to allow customers to skip the bill and pay only what they feel their meal was worth.
The Little Bay restaurant said all patrons who dine during the rest of February will be asked to pay whatever they consider to be a fair amount instead of receiving a bill, Sky News reported Wednesday.
Little Bay owner Peter Ilic said the promotion is aimed at easing the stress of the economic downturn.
“Anything between a penny and 50 pounds ($72) will make me happy, it’s entirely up to the customer to decide,” Ilic said. “It just seemed the right thing to do with everyone under the cosh and feeling pretty miserable.”
“Customers have already paid 20 percent more than the original price,” the owner said. “People want to be polite and would be embarrassed not to pay enough.”
Somehow I don’t think this kind of scheme would work very well in Malaysia… I think alot of people would go to the restaurant, eat, then say,
“Umm… the food only so/so lah, I’ll give you RM5 ok? Thanks! Bye!”
The restaurant would be out of business in no time at all. Haha… [Photo from Flickr: Neubie]
Pinkydog, 3 years ago
Yalo..It won’t work in Malaysia…Ehem…
Alexis, 3 years ago
I agree with Pinkydog! Ppl tend to take advantage of situation like this.
ian, 3 years ago
Malaysians will really take the advantage no doubt about that.
William, 2 years ago
Thanks for the comments everyone… maybe sometime in the future Malaysian’s will be able to do something like this? But probably sometime in the distant future…
Maybe 2020 and beyond in my opinion… oh well. =)
NOVA Caterer Fusions, 2 years ago
I have to say, I’m not sure how this would go over here in the U.S. I think most people feel food is to expensive to begin with. It would be interesting to see though.
William, 2 years ago
I think they bank on the ‘guilt factor’, people don’t want to seem cheap with others around watching them…
You eat a good meal and lay down 1 dollar? Imagine the dirty looks they would get… haha.