Shucks, in the inimitable style of innkeepers throughout history (including Bethlehem, where for an additional bronze coin, Joseph could have gotten the bridal suite instead of paying holiday rates for the room next to the boiler, the one with a hay carpet), the joint had figured out a classic con....

Only two out of every ten parties will be equipped with an careful auditor of the check (while in 3 of 10 cases, the host will be befuddled by drink), and with 7 of 10 sneaking through, double-gratutificated as it were, the manager can afford to give away appetizers to the wary from now unitl the damming of the Golden Gate to assure adequate potable and irrigation water for the Bay area (or the inevitable calamitous 'quake, whichever comes first.