On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 08:10:22 -0700, sf wrote:

> They aren't stupid. They
> don't want you to walk out of the restaurant and down the street to
> the ice cream shop when they could have made a few more $ if they had
> some plain vanilla to put in a bowl and serve you.

A popular Chinese restaurant doesn't want you and your little brats
hogging up a table to eat ice cream with a $.25 markup while they
could be serving other customers at that table.

-sw