Not Tipping and Not Getting a Menu

We live here and eat breakfast out 3 or 4 times a week. Conditions permitting, we spend 3 hours working out and need a shower and food FAST! Other meals we cook, because we love to.

Some restaurants have laminated menus that are wiped down between use. Trust me, we watch. A very few others, Carmelita's and El Patio come to mind, that point to the code thing that take a smarter phone that ours.

At El Patio, we just said, "No tenemos un telefono," and a menu immediately appeared, and when we have visited since, they always bring us one, unless we say we don't need one, we know what we want. Their French Toast is amazing!

At Carmelita's, where we go to have the car cleaned out and washed, they roll over a huge board that has a menu on it. Great!

It is a great way to try to keep contact to the minimum, but they do work with the system. For us it has always been easy.

Relax, enjoy. Life is great, just be respectful of others.