Originally Posted by
superangrypenguin
You'd be surprised! My employer gives me $100 to spend on food a day. If I don't spend it, I don't get to keep it.
However, most of the FFers I speak with get a per diem. So if they get $50/day, and they spend $5 on food, they pocket the $45.
That could explain why.
What I meant was that, with such strong aversion to using forks that have been in other mouths and glasses that have touched other lips, I found it hard to see how dining at a big-boy restaurant was even possible.