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Original poster

to think that "bring your own drinks" in Indian restaurants refers to alcohol only?

213 replies

areaGL51 · 18/08/2013 23:41

We often go to an unlicensed Indian restaurant and I can't believe the number of people who bring their own soft drinks. Big bottles of Coke etc. I think this is really unfair. "Bring your own" clearly means alcohol only!

OP posts:
ilovesooty · 19/08/2013 18:53

I often see BYO too.

Ninja claimed to understand the concept but I have my doubts.

expatinscotland · 19/08/2013 18:54

It's very simple to stop the tight-fisted pisstakers. 'If you wish to drink alcohol, please provide your own.'

There, meaning clear.

ilovesooty · 19/08/2013 18:54

You're recommending that others buy a dictionary?

Seriously?

Ninjahero · 19/08/2013 18:55

The meaning is not blatantly obvious.A meaning that is obvious would be in the dictionary.I suggest eveyone the disagrees with me purchase one.

ilovesooty · 19/08/2013 18:56

I think my last question has gone over your head somehow.

OnTheBottomWithAWomensWeekly · 19/08/2013 18:56

Another dictionary? Thanks, but as said, we all know the meaning. Since you love yours so, could you perhaps look up obtuse and awkward?

LRDPomogiMnyeSRabotoi · 19/08/2013 18:58

I quite fancy obviouse meanings. Sort of like obvious, but with a French twist, yes?

TBH I don't think this is a right/wrong issue, it's just that some of us are familiar with the sorts of places where they provide tap water ane genuinely mean you must bring your own if you want anything else, and others of us are familiar with places that mean they don't have a booze license.

I have never, to be honest, encountered a successful restaurant where every member of staff was so tongue-tied with politeness that they'd be incapable of clarifying, so I suspect the restaurant the OP is talking about don't give a shiny shit.

ilovesooty · 19/08/2013 18:59

They're very helpful for all sorts of things.

Ninjahero · 19/08/2013 19:01

Yes I am serious.

Alisvolatpropiis · 19/08/2013 19:02

Love, I think your dictionary is broken.

The dictionary provides the meanings of individual words not phrases/sentences

If I said "I'd rather shoot myself in the head with a bolt gun than do xyz" would you be emailing MNHQ concerned I was going to do myself harm? Or would you understand the inferred meaning of what I'd said as being that I really really don't want to do xyz?

ilovesooty · 19/08/2013 19:02

Irony obviously lost on you then.

expatinscotland · 19/08/2013 19:04

The restaurant can also ban repeated pisstakers. One place did that to a couple of blokes who were abusing the buffet offers.

Ninjahero · 19/08/2013 19:06

That's ok because I am NOT a pisstaker.

Viviennemary · 19/08/2013 19:10

It wouldn't have entered my head that they meant soft drinks. I would have understood bring your own alcoholic drinks. Can't believe people turn up with their own bottle of coke.

Alisvolatpropiis · 19/08/2013 19:10

That'll be up to the restaurant owners to decide won't it?

OnTheBottomWithAWomensWeekly · 19/08/2013 19:13

Are you sure you're not? Have you checked the definition of pisstaker?

BackforGood · 19/08/2013 19:18

I don't like Indian food myself, but know there is one near here that my ds goes to with groups of friends. They are all 6th formers, and they take in their own pop, as the restaurant are very happy for them to do. Point being, they are on limited budgets, and know that when they go there it's going to cost the fixed price, which they can budget for, and not be stung for lots of extras which add up once you start buying drinks in restaurants. Lots of young people and local families use the restaurant all the time on that basis - it means the customers know what they will have to pay out, and therefore the restaurant gets lots and lots of repeat business which obviously suits them.
I'd have thought that if they only wanted people to bring alcoholic drinks then the notice / website / however they tell people things would - as ex-pat said ^^ - write "If you wish to consume alcoholic beverages, please bring your own as we do not hold a licence". It doesn't, it says "Menu - fixed price - bring your own drinks".

limitedperiodonly · 19/08/2013 19:25

Stunned.

Obviously the people who think they're welcome to take Coke to a BYOB restaurant are the same ones who offer me a drink only for me to check myself and think: 'You mean tea or coffee, don't you?'

Alisvolatpropiis · 19/08/2013 19:31

BackforGood

There may be an element of that restaurant noticing the needs of it's customer base more than anything. Which is good obviously.

There's only one Byob place near me. They most certainly mean alcohol and have asked people to leave previously for bringing their own soft drinks. Can't remember the signage. I went to another in Tenby last week, I think the sign said byob at the top and then had pictures of bottles of beer and wine underneath, just in case Grin

limitedperiodonly · 19/08/2013 19:33

Or BYOB of cleaning fluid in case you're sick on the table.

Ninjahero · 19/08/2013 19:38

Alisvolatpropiis
I think the sign said byob at the top and then had pictures of bottles of beer and wine underneath, just in case.

But if the sign has BYOB I would still bring coke because even if it has pictures of wine and beer it DOSN'T mean you can ONLY bring beer or wine.I would only not take coke if it said "Alcohol only".

KellyHopter · 19/08/2013 19:39

How is purchasing a drink at the price stated on the menu being 'stung for extras'?
Is purchasing naan bread being 'stung' for extras? Or just buying something you are about to consume?

limitedperiodonly · 19/08/2013 19:40

stung for extras

It's a fucking restaurant.

You know in those countries like Cuba where desperate people invite you round to their house to eat lobster on the quiet or you can bargain someone in Egypt down to 25p on a t-shirt - is that what we're becoming?

expatinscotland · 19/08/2013 19:40

If you don't like the price of the drinks, don't buy one. Or ask for tap water.

Ninjahero · 19/08/2013 19:44

But if the sigh says bring your own,why not bring your own.