"Nancy Young" > wrote in message
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> On 7/30/2013 10:04 AM, jmcquown wrote:
>> On 7/30/2013 8:21 AM, Nancy Young wrote:
>
>>> So ... if the woman is paying, she's just got to trust the
>>> final bill? Hope it's not a huge surprise? Not that you're counting
>>> your pennies if you're eating at a place like that, but do they
>>> still think it's the 50s there?
>
>> Now that he knows, if she's going to pay they could just swap menus.
>
> I hope he didn't peek at the prices!
>
>> The practice is rather archaic.
>
> I don't really see a place for it. I have only encountered that once,
> and it was a shareholder's meeting at a fancy Manhattan restaurant and
> the majority shareholder requested he be the only one to see the prices.
>
> I suppose it's okay in a business situation.
>

As a shareholder, I would want to know how much of the corporations assets
were being squandered at a fancy Manhattan restaurant.