NEIGHBOR blogger Simon wonders about the striking disparity in service and charges between fancy restaurants such as a noted one in Tarlac and the hole-in-the-wall beerhouses of Metro Manila.

With the first, you wait interminably for your order and get billed stratospherically when you pay; with the latter, you are treated like a king from your first step inside their unassuming interiors and pay only the most reasonable of charges — with discounts to boot!

Makes you want to come back again and again, Simon says.

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