Buying a Round for the House

The 90s are dead we just missed the obituary.

I lot of that going on was just getting charged to company credit card, company expense accounts, or people re-imbursing (improperly) through work, I would imagine.

One of our sales guys used to do that on lunches when we'd go out . . he'd buy a round for the whole joint, it'd be like $1K or $5K, and he didn't care, it wasn't his money.

The Gov't started cracking down on that shit . . business expenses are more scrutinized . . and the rest is history.

As for individuals, I recall one guy at work who made $20K day trading one morning, sold the stock, then took like all 20 of us in the department out to lunch, same sort of thing. Money was more flush those days.

I've only heard of this in movies. I've never seen it happen.

It's a lost art form. Dominic is right - business expense accounts enabled a lot of this. I remember being a kid and my dad having an account like that. He told me one year he spent 75K just taking people out to eat. I also remember when his company car needed new tires, they would just send him a new car.

Those were the days!!!!

Ya if you knew more drug dealers you would get to experience this. Untaxed drug money is ideal for this. It helps lower the guilt of not paying Uncle Sam his dues. It's like the business owner who didn't pay taxes for 7 years however he decided to donate the same tax amount to an orphanage.

That guy also went to jail ):

I once bought a round of lap dances for all in the joint. The place was dead and i was feeling bad for the girls working. There were only 20+ girls as it was early evening and dances were cheaper then, like $20 a piece. But that was a long time ago.

Was it some shot special or could you order your own drink?

Don't mention it - you're welcome.

I heard Juice once bought a round at a KFC.

^^^^No juice caught a round at the KFC drive by

^^^^that's why he hasn't been posting lately

^ oh ok

Juice: "everybody have an extra crispy drumstick on me!!!"

. Lone_Wolf --> "Was it some shot special or could you order your own drink?"

I'm not the OP, but, in the salesguy's case, he'd just tell the waitress to buy everyone 1 or 2 rounds of their last drink order. So if you had a $2 draft, that's what you got. If you had a $10 mixed drink, that's what you got. I guess if you were drinking coke/pepsi/water maybe you got screwed (you just got the well drink, maybe). He wouldn't do upgrades. "If you won't pay for it; I'm not paying for it" is what he used to say. Or " if you're a cheap ass mofo, then so am I." I mean, if someone was already drinking a 18yo or a 25yo Scotch, he would have bought the same. It really was "a round of your last drink order."

Now, there may have been some shenanigans going on between the waitresses and some of the regulars, vis a vis, to get a drink upgrade. But, when a $1K or a $5K sale was on the line, you can bet your ass the place did whatever they could to not piss off the guy buying the round. Because trust me, had they pissed him off, he would have said FUCK YOU, and walked out, leaving the tab / disputing the charge.

Good points. The days of writing those rounds against the company are long over.

Papi, think Juice did that at KFC when the buffet was discounted. :)

Speaking of drug dealers, one time was sitting next to one and he wanted 2 of his girls to dance only for me, guess he wanted to get rid of them for awhile.

I am tea teetotaler so got a free water. :(

See. Point proven. If anyone of you ever wants to meet up in denver I will stand behind you at the table and make it rain. Pinky promise. Then I will tell the dancer she better take good care of my friend and then I will walk away.

I once saw a guy buy a round of lap dances for the house.

It was Cheetah Atlanta a few years ago. They do a 2-4-1 walk out where the girls wear gowns and give two nude air dances at your table for $10. So they had the walk out and there are aprox. 95 girls on the 3 stages. I don't recall the exact number but it was between 90 and 100, so I'll call it 95. Usually the girls circulate to find a guy to pay them for the 2-4-1. But the DJ announces that a guy at club just closed some business deal and made a fortune, so he bought the dances for everyone. And he tipped the girls double so it was normal price. So he paid $1,900 (95 x $20) for all of the dancers to strip and dance two songs. There were maybe 50 customers so lots of guys had two dancers. I thought that was nicer than buying everybody a drink.

Sounds like a niggr buffet

I remember that happening once a couple years ago at this one dive bar when I was there, but other than that, it had been eons since someone did that, at least in a SC.

Didn't buy a round, but this sure felt good!

The other day, my wife and I entered a local eatery for lunch. Bought lunch for six Air Force members in uniform. They were very gracious and thanked us. "Thanked us?" We returned the the thanks two fold!

Wow, the 90s sure was a different animal back then. Unfortunately I was a youth then so I didn't experience any of that. But one day I hopefully plan to take the boys out to t he strip club all on my bank roll, but no popping bottles. Pop pussy or get out.

I was in a Phoenix, Arizona club in 2001, the year the Diamondbacks won the World Series. When Gonzalez hit the looper over Jeter's head to win the series, the owner/manager announced a round of drinks on the house! The place was slammed too.

Many of us here buy rounds all the time - for strippers that is.

I was in a restaurant near a large military base. There were several military men and women in uniform. The guy I was dining with discretely asked the manager if he could buy all of the servicemen and women lunch. He put it on a credit card and told the manager to just tell them that the meal had been paid for by a customer who thanked them for their service. He didn't want anyone to know it was him. He was a regular at the restaurant but told me he had not ever done it before. I loved that he did it anonymously.

Buying a round for the servicemen/women is great. We should do this more.