Things you always wanted to know the answer to [Vol. 2]
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FiF said:
Jesus thought this had died a death some pages back.
It was a four star in a very good location and not exactly cheap.
Problem with your theory is that with pop up toasters or manual eg Dualit, it's easy to manage, guest just takes their toast out when it's done. There is the risk they forget and set a smoke alarm off however.
With the conveyor ones the guest doesn't know if the setting is to their liking until they've run one batch through. Adjust. Run another batch. Results in waste of bread and time I.e. throughput rate.
Presumably the hotel should set the machine at some setting to get a medium result. But ime, which isn't in doss houses, too many of them get it wrong. Maybe they do find it as difficult as setting up a F1 car for some unfathomable reason. They shouldn't but they do.
It's a vexing issue...I've stayed at an otherwise nice 'golf' hotel outside Bodmin where the kitchen offered fresh scrambled egg, but could not deliver it on fresh toast. The customer has to do his own toast. Even though customer has no idea when the toast would need to be ready to meet the fresh scrambled egg. But kitchen resolutely could not provide the toast. Mind boggling.It was a four star in a very good location and not exactly cheap.
Problem with your theory is that with pop up toasters or manual eg Dualit, it's easy to manage, guest just takes their toast out when it's done. There is the risk they forget and set a smoke alarm off however.
With the conveyor ones the guest doesn't know if the setting is to their liking until they've run one batch through. Adjust. Run another batch. Results in waste of bread and time I.e. throughput rate.
Presumably the hotel should set the machine at some setting to get a medium result. But ime, which isn't in doss houses, too many of them get it wrong. Maybe they do find it as difficult as setting up a F1 car for some unfathomable reason. They shouldn't but they do.
On to the question - why does the M6 toll provide a VAT receipt but Dartford crossing doesn't?
The Don of Croy said:
On to the question - why does the M6 toll provide a VAT receipt but Dartford crossing doesn't?
Quick Google of "dartford crossing vat receipt" suggests that VAT is not charged at Dartford: http://www.accountingweb.co.uk/anyanswers/dartford...The Don of Croy said:
It's a vexing issue...I've stayed at an otherwise nice 'golf' hotel outside Bodmin where the kitchen offered fresh scrambled egg, but could not deliver it on fresh toast. The customer has to do his own toast. Even though customer has no idea when the toast would need to be ready to meet the fresh scrambled egg. But kitchen resolutely could not provide the toast. Mind boggling.
Funny you should say that. Recently stayed in the Sheffield Mercure. Nothing to do with this toast saga.Anyway there was a counter where the chef would do the special orders on show in the breakfast area. Grilled kippers really nice, and so on.
Poached eggs on toast. Do your own toast. Wtf. So you rock up with your plate with two buttered slices, only to find the chef serves you two eggs on a second coldish empty plate so you have to transfer somehow. It's not rocket science.
FiF said:
The Don of Croy said:
It's a vexing issue...I've stayed at an otherwise nice 'golf' hotel outside Bodmin where the kitchen offered fresh scrambled egg, but could not deliver it on fresh toast. The customer has to do his own toast. Even though customer has no idea when the toast would need to be ready to meet the fresh scrambled egg. But kitchen resolutely could not provide the toast. Mind boggling.
Funny you should say that. Recently stayed in the Sheffield Mercure. Nothing to do with this toast saga.Anyway there was a counter where the chef would do the special orders on show in the breakfast area. Grilled kippers really nice, and so on.
Poached eggs on toast. Do your own toast. Wtf. So you rock up with your plate with two buttered slices, only to find the chef serves you two eggs on a second coldish empty plate so you have to transfer somehow. It's not rocket science.
A mate used an expression yesterday which I hadn't heard for a long time "farting like a trooper". It got me thinking as to where the expression came from. I sort of assume it comes from the cavalry rank of trooper. So I got to wondering if there is any historical evidence that a trooper farted more than a Lance Corporal or a Sergeant; or for that matter officers. Something to do with diet perhaps?
I think doing anything like a trooper implies that one is doing it well, with gusto, or something of that ilk.
The Don of Croy said:
Clearly there is a need for 'Toast Advisor' (now trademarked - www.toastadvisor.com) - a website you can post up toast reviews so travelers know what to expect...
I clicked it sc0tt said:
Why when you walk in to a supermarket is the heating there blowing directly down on you for that one second as you cross the threshold?
Is it to make you feel warmer without them heating the store?
It's an air curtain or air door, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_doorIs it to make you feel warmer without them heating the store?
markmullen said:
sc0tt said:
Why when you walk in to a supermarket is the heating there blowing directly down on you for that one second as you cross the threshold?
Is it to make you feel warmer without them heating the store?
It's an air curtain or air door, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_doorIs it to make you feel warmer without them heating the store?
Went to the local Tesco Metro a few days ago.
Really hot sunny day. The air curtain on the front door gave a blast of cool chilled air. Felt great.
Yet after acclimatisation to the internal temperature, on exit that same air curtain felt distinctly warm compared to the interior before the blast of the outside heat.
It's all relative one supposes.
FiF said:
Tangential to this.
Went to the local Tesco Metro a few days ago.
Really hot sunny day. The air curtain on the front door gave a blast of cool chilled air. Felt great.
Yet after acclimatisation to the internal temperature, on exit that same air curtain felt distinctly warm compared to the interior before the blast of the outside heat.
It's all relative one supposes.
Went to the local Tesco Metro a few days ago.
Really hot sunny day. The air curtain on the front door gave a blast of cool chilled air. Felt great.
Yet after acclimatisation to the internal temperature, on exit that same air curtain felt distinctly warm compared to the interior before the blast of the outside heat.
It's all relative one supposes.
Similarly I usually have the climate control set in the car to 20, which I find comfortable, and down as low as 16 or 17 if it's scorching outside.In a cab in Cyprus where it was 42 degrees outside the driver had it set to 26, which felt lovely and refreshing, yet I'd feel far too warm at 26 here in the UK.
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