Reply #282: Aye, we should come bowing and scraping the floor [View All]

[Rabrrrrrr]

in front of the waiters, for we who go to a restaurant are submitting ourselves to a luxury, and we should feel lucky that people are there who will bring us food.

I hadn't responded to OSD's post yet because I found it so proposterous, I just didn't know how to respond.

I had long thought *I* was doing the restaurant a favor by helping to keep them in business and giving them my money so they could show a profit. Turns out, I'm wrong. I guess somehow the waiters get paid more if I'm not there or something. Apparently the profit curve is a hyperbola, which goes to infinity where the number of customers approaches zero.

profit = 1/x, where x is the number of customers