[Ads-l] Check/bill

[Peter Reitan]

Janet Nguyen's piece about restaurant check/bill has been posted on marketplace.org

https://www.marketplace.org/2022/08/05/check-please-but-wait-isnt-it-a-bill/<https://www.marketplace.org/2022/08/05/check-please-but-wait-isnt-it-a-bill/amp/>
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Midwesterner here, long time food service employee (family owned a tavern);
waitstaff call them tickets, as in the piece of paper with the order
written on it.  Customers can ask for the bill or check, but check is most
common word.

On Thu, Aug 4, 2022 at 7:42 AM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Around here it's a "ticket."
>
> JL
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> On Thu, Aug 4, 2022 at 8:13 AM Ben Yagoda <byagoda at udel.edu> wrote:
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> > For what it=E2=80=99s worth, in Britain you still ask for and are hande=
d =E2=80=9Cthe
> > bill.=E2=80=9D
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