waiting for restaurant to take payment - how long reasonable

antrobus

tir21 wrote: »

but the conversation had moved on from the scenario in my original op. ....

And there was I thinking that your OP was a description of an actual event, rather than merely a 'scenario'.:)

antrobus

tir21 wrote: »

...well £ 1. 99 is three whisper bars (with 19 p change)

(1) It's a Wispa bar.
(2) They're £1.79 for four in Tesco, but a bit cheaper in ASDA.
(3) They're often on special offer at £1

So if you bided your time, you should be able to get eight for that kind of money.:)

tir21

(1) It's a Wispa bar.!

i really should have known that given the amount i eat

tir21

antrobus wrote: »

And there was I thinking that your OP was a description of an actual event, rather than merely a 'scenario'.:)

no i made it all up. im not really wicked enough to diddle £ 10 from a national restaurant chain

VitaK

tir21 wrote: »

the bill should have actually been £31.99 so im still £1.99 to the good

If you feel it is appropriate for whatever reason, you can go into the restorant and give them the £1.99.

Pollycat

tir21 wrote: »

no i made it all up. im not really wicked enough to diddle £ 10 from a national restaurant chain

You didn't diddle a national restaurant chain out of £10.

It was - by your admission - a 'diddle' of £1.99 because they had a £10 voucher and a £20 voucher.

Edit - £20 voucher, not £210.

OlliesDad

Pollycat wrote: »

they had a £10 voucher and a £210 voucher.

Woah.. that is a rip off

gozaimasu

I think Tesco are slightly to blame in this mess.

When you order rewards vouchers (or Boost, as they are now called), they send you all the codes via email, in the SAME email and tell you that you must print out the email and take it to the restaurant to redeem them.

So, how do you stop a restaurant from using the codes you don't want if you have way more codes than the value of the meal?

Please pass feedback to Tesco on this one, and until they do something about allowing you to use your codes separately, ensure that you order £10 per points exchange. More hard work for them, but you'll have a separate email for each £10 that you can freely spend separately.

tir21

thanks goz

that is the downside to this new system tesco have introduced. but the upside is that you don't have to wait as long

harz99

gozaimasu wrote: »

I think Tesco are slightly to blame in this mess.

When you order rewards vouchers (or Boost, as they are now called), they send you all the codes via email, in the SAME email and tell you that you must print out the email and take it to the restaurant to redeem them.

So, how do you stop a restaurant from using the codes you don't want if you have way more codes than the value of the meal?

Please pass feedback to Tesco on this one, and until they do something about allowing you to use your codes separately, ensure that you order £10 per points exchange. More hard work for them, but you'll have a separate email for each £10 that you can freely spend separately.

Surely you can simply print as many copies of the email as there are codes, obliterate codes on each copy to leave you one of each code and use them that way - a little faffing about but perfectly easy to do.