Re: [SLUG] Another place to eat
Try www.austlii.edu.au if you want legislation. However this sounds like a regulatory kinda thing. -- Rev Simon Rumble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.rumble.net Think: In which world is speech most free: 1) A world where you can send single personal messages to anyone, but can't send multiple copies of the same message to people who haven't authorized you spending their resources that way. 2) A world where you only can send messages to people who have explicitly authorized you to do so. If we win the fight against spammers, we get world 1. If we lose, we get world 2. - Per Abrahamsen on slashdot -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Another place to eat
On Tue, 26 Feb 2002 10:30, Michael Lake wrote: > Jon Biddell wrote: > > They can charge, I think, a MAXIMUM of $0.20 for a glass of water - > > I remember seeing it somewhere in the Fair Trading Act when I was > > studying Law - I'll try to find the reference for curiosity > > value...:-) > > Good luck :-) As an exercise yesterday I went to > http://www.nsw.gov.au and tried to find the dept that was > responsible for this. I entered various search criteria to > do with water, clubs, restrauants, food, and even the the > Dept Fair Trading, as the serving of water in night club > venues was an issue some time ago. Alas no luck. It will be > interesting to find out how you find it using the means > available to a normal citizen :-) Ummm. I wrote the original www.nsw.gov.au site - they fscked it up last year using a Domino database at the arse-end of it... I'm pretty sure it will be Fair Trading. -- Jon - "There are 5.6 billion people in the world, and approximately 400 million installed operating systems. That means 5.2 billion people have yet to choose their operating system, and we have to get to them before Bill does." - Jon "maddog" Hall -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Another place to eat
Jon Biddell wrote: > They can charge, I think, a MAXIMUM of $0.20 for a glass of water - I > remember seeing it somewhere in the Fair Trading Act when I was > studying Law - I'll try to find the reference for curiosity value...:-) Good luck :-) As an exercise yesterday I went to http://www.nsw.gov.au and tried to find the dept that was responsible for this. I entered various search criteria to do with water, clubs, restrauants, food, and even the the Dept Fair Trading, as the serving of water in night club venues was an issue some time ago. Alas no luck. It will be interesting to find out how you find it using the means available to a normal citizen :-) Mike -- Available signature space taken up by legal waffle, insufficient space for normal signature. CRICOS Number: 00099F DISCLAIMER = This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views the University of Technology Sydney. Before opening any attachments, please check them for viruses and defects. = -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Another place to eat
> - order the water, specify normal tap water, and if they charged for > it on the bill at the end refuse to pay (just the bit for the water), > you might have to argue a bit but they always give in eventually (in > my experience anyway). They can charge, I think, a MAXIMUM of $0.20 for a glass of water - I remember seeing it somewhere in the Fair Trading Act when I was studying Law - I'll try to find the reference for curiosity value...:-) > (not that I've had to do that for a while, charging for water seems > to mainly be a Sydney thing, in Adelaide it's increasingly popular > for restaurants to automatically supply (free) a jug of water and > glasses) It's a very "American" thing - as soon as you sit you have a jug of water and glasses - but then again, Adelaide is slightly (!!) more classy than Sydney... Why do you think they have the best Red's in the world (Hill of Grace !!!) -- Jon - "There are 5.6 billion people in the world, and approximately 400 million installed operating systems. That means 5.2 billion people have yet to choose their operating system, and we have to get to them before Bill does." - Jon "maddog" Hall -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Another place to eat
Isn't it the other way round, where it's illegal or rather ill advised to provide tap water, ever since the water incident that happened few years back? Rgds, H T Wijaya - Original Message - From: Pete Ryland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sunday, February 24, 2002 5:38 pm Subject: Re: [SLUG] Another place to eat > On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 11:00:58AM +1030, David Fitch wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 09:28:56AM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > > Do they charge exorbident prices for their drinks, and a > $1 for a jug > > > of tap water? > > > > either: > > - take a small plastic bottle with you (like the 500ml orange > juice ones) > > and fill it from the sink in the dunny, or > > - order the water, specify normal tap water, and if they charged > for it > > on the bill at the end refuse to pay (just the bit for the water), > > you might have to argue a bit but they always give in eventually > > (in my experience anyway). > > > > (not that I've had to do that for a while, charging for water > seems to > > mainly be a Sydney thing, in Adelaide it's increasingly popular for > > restaurants to automatically supply (free) a jug of water and > glasses) > IIRC, in a place which serves either alcohol or food, it's > actually illegal > to 1. refuse to provide tap water to customers or 2. charge for it. > > Pete > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Another place to eat
On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 11:00:58AM +1030, David Fitch wrote: > On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 09:28:56AM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > Do they charge exorbident prices for their drinks, and a $1 for a jug > > of tap water? > > either: > - take a small plastic bottle with you (like the 500ml orange juice ones) > and fill it from the sink in the dunny, or > - order the water, specify normal tap water, and if they charged for it > on the bill at the end refuse to pay (just the bit for the water), > you might have to argue a bit but they always give in eventually > (in my experience anyway). > > (not that I've had to do that for a while, charging for water seems to > mainly be a Sydney thing, in Adelaide it's increasingly popular for > restaurants to automatically supply (free) a jug of water and glasses) IIRC, in a place which serves either alcohol or food, it's actually illegal to 1. refuse to provide tap water to customers or 2. charge for it. Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Another place to eat
On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 09:28:56AM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: > Do they charge exorbident prices for their drinks, and a $1 for a jug > of tap water? either: - take a small plastic bottle with you (like the 500ml orange juice ones) and fill it from the sink in the dunny, or - order the water, specify normal tap water, and if they charged for it on the bill at the end refuse to pay (just the bit for the water), you might have to argue a bit but they always give in eventually (in my experience anyway). (not that I've had to do that for a while, charging for water seems to mainly be a Sydney thing, in Adelaide it's increasingly popular for restaurants to automatically supply (free) a jug of water and glasses) Dave. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Another place to eat
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Nicholas Reese wrote: > I don't know how packed the Marigold (just around the corner from Gang > Spew) gets on a Friday night, but I have had Yum Cha there many times > and their service is good and the food fantastic. They also have two > massive floors of space so getting a table should be easy. Do they charge exorbident prices for their drinks, and a $1 for a jug of tap water? -- --- #include Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Another place to eat
Although I've never been to dinner with you guys, but if you need suggestions to chinese restaurants, then those that come up to mind are Kam Fook @ Haymarket Golden Century @ cnr of Sussex St & Goulburn St Silver Spring @ 1 level above the Australian Post Haymarket branch HTH Rgds, H T Wijaya - Original Message - From: "Nicholas Reese" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Saturday, February 23, 2002 4:05 pm Subject: [SLUG] Another place to eat > Hi all, > > I don't know how packed the Marigold (just around the corner from Gang > Spew) gets on a Friday night, but I have had Yum Cha there many times > and their service is good and the food fantastic. They also have two > massive floors of space so getting a table should be easy. > > Regards, > > Nick Reese > > Linux earns mindshare, Microsoft buys it... > > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
