[Ads-l] Check/bill

[Peter Reitan]

More on the details of using a check to order a la carte, as opposed to the traditional table d'hote format.

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/107241838/courier-post/
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Peter Reitan <pjreitan at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Janet Nguyen's piece about restaurant check/bill has been posted on marke=
tplace.org
>
> https://www.marketplace.org/2022/08/05/check-please-but-wait-isnt-it-a-bi=
ll/

Thanks for the link Peter.
Here is a citation in 1891 in which a =E2=80=9Cdinner check=E2=80=9D appear=
s to mean a
ticket that one buys which enables the bearer to obtain a meal (as
discussed in my previous message).

Year: August 29, 1891
Periodical: Harper's Weekly
Article: The Canoe Meet at Lake Champlain
Author: C. B. Vaux
Database: Google Books Full View

https://books.google.com/books?id=3DzkJaAAAAYAAJ&q=3D%22dinner+check%22#v=
=3Dsnippet&

[Begin excerpt]
He is quite likely to buy a fifty-cent dinner check and get a "square"
meal at the mess-shed before the day is over.
[End excerpt]

Garson

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