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Gina Went out to Dinner - Pay by Seat From January 19th, 2026 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: We went out to dinner last night for Daddy Gary's birthday.
• 0:05
  Speaker 2: All right, you had the dinner at home yep, on Saturday,
• 0:09
  Speaker 2: and then went out to dinner and it was his choice.
• 0:11
  Speaker 3: He got two dinners and was it his choice where
• 0:15
  Speaker 3: we went?
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: No, my sister planned it, which it was great. We
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: went to Hearth and Hill and Sugarhouse.
• 0:21
  Speaker 3: It was good.
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: But you know, it's all us kids and our spouses.
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: It's a big group, a lot of people, and it's
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  Speaker 1: all and.
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  Speaker 3: We've we've how many do you think?
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: Two thirteen, fourteen people?
• 0:35
  Speaker 3: That's a big group.
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  Speaker 1: But we've decided because Daddy Gary usually like.
• 0:42
  Speaker 3: Pays and for everybody.
• 0:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and we are all but we are all damn adults.
• 0:48
  Speaker 3: Yes, and.
• 0:50
  Speaker 1: It's time for Daddy Gary to stop paying.
• 0:53
  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: So before we went out to dinner, I sent out
• 0:57
  Speaker 1: a text to all the siblings and said, we are
• 0:59
  Speaker 1: all paying.
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  Speaker 3: For our own food.
• 1:02
  Speaker 1: But then you go out to eat and it's this
• 1:05
  Speaker 1: big cluster of and you feel bad telling the white
• 1:10
  Speaker 1: staff do you mind if? And it was all your fault,
• 1:14
  Speaker 1: but it's still but it's it's always a problem. So
• 1:17
  Speaker 1: as we're talking about this last night, trying it and
• 1:19
  Speaker 1: somebody has cash and other people have and it's just
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  Speaker 1: a My sister was telling me about a restaurant in
• 1:26
  Speaker 1: Vegas that they went to and it was a group
• 1:29
  Speaker 1: of friends. They were down and they went they went
• 1:30
  Speaker 1: to go to the NFR down there, the National Finals rodeo.
• 1:34
  Speaker 1: So it's a bunch of different couples out to dinner.
• 1:37
  Speaker 1: And after they delivered the food, the waiter said, there's
• 1:43
  Speaker 1: a QR code on the table. Scan that QR code
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  Speaker 1: anytime you like, and it is set up where you're
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  Speaker 1: and it says on the code you're sitting in seat
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  Speaker 1: number one. So when you're and when you're with the
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  Speaker 1: big group of people, sometimes you don't all get up
• 1:59
  Speaker 1: and leave at the same time. You want to leave
• 2:01
  Speaker 1: at different times. When you're ready to go, you just
• 2:04
  Speaker 1: scan your seat number and it's already figured out. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: you were sitting there. You add a glass of cabernet
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  Speaker 1: and a steak. It's all figured out. And so you
• 2:14
  Speaker 1: just pay for your So do you pay at at
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  Speaker 1: at a No, just on your phone. You just pay
• 2:21
  Speaker 1: with your phone. The waiter never comes back. I think
• 2:25
  Speaker 1: that's genius. Every restaurant should have that. You just here's
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  Speaker 1: your bill for your seat right here.
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  Speaker 2: Then you have to hire some tech nerd to keep
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  Speaker 2: that thing running for you.
• 2:36
  Speaker 1: What it's just an app. You have to hire a
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  Speaker 1: tech nerd to do anything.
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  Speaker 3: Pretty complicated. To do all of that. The app complicated.
• 2:47
  Speaker 3: It's already built. When the when.
• 2:49
  Speaker 1: The waiter comes a lot of restaurants have this. When
• 2:52
  Speaker 1: the waiter comes to table and you have they have
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  Speaker 1: like a little handheld thing that they take well they do.
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  Speaker 3: That almost almost exclusively now, so it's.
• 3:00
  Speaker 1: Easy when they're taking your order, like okay, you're in
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  Speaker 1: seat number one, this is seat number one's order.
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  Speaker 3: And I think it's a genius.
• 3:07
  Speaker 2: So my wife was in Europe a year ago, two
• 3:10
  Speaker 2: years ago, and she said, every place you go in
• 3:13
  Speaker 2: Europe they have that where the credit card never.
• 3:17
  Speaker 3: Loses leaves your site. You're right there.
• 3:20
  Speaker 2: And the main reason they've done that is to try
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  Speaker 2: and prevent credit card fraud. And so that you're right there.
• 3:27
  Speaker 2: The waiter just gives you the little machine and you
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  Speaker 2: put your card there and you see it.
• 3:32
  Speaker 3: All happen right there.
• 3:33
  Speaker 1: But I love this that you never ever again have
• 3:36
  Speaker 1: to go, Okay, well I had this and you had that,
• 3:39
  Speaker 1: and I'm going to give you twenty dollars and you
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  Speaker 1: pay with your credit card, none of that.
• 3:44
  Speaker 2: I remember the bills. I now remember the last time
• 3:47
  Speaker 2: that happened to me. It was a big family gether
• 3:49
  Speaker 2: and it was so long ago. It was it Tokyo
• 3:51
  Speaker 2: boys and sushi, and it was a big group of
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  Speaker 2: us and it was you know, the mother in law
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  Speaker 2: and the mothers and the and I forget what the
• 4:01
  Speaker 2: event was, but we had a pretty big bill. And
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  Speaker 2: so everybody then starts arguing about who's gonna pay what
• 4:07
  Speaker 2: and how's gonna play. And finally, finally Uncle Todd and I,
• 4:12
  Speaker 2: you know Todd and Narron Todd, Uncle Tod and I
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  Speaker 2: just said hold it, everybody, stop, we're taking care of this.
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  Speaker 2: No stop, we stop, We're taking and just the two
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  Speaker 2: of us went and we just split it between two
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  Speaker 2: credit cards.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, because it was.
• 4:28
  Speaker 1: Just it does it gets it gets it makes it
• 4:31
  Speaker 1: so you don't want to go out with a big group.
• 4:33
  Speaker 3: Of people like that.
• 4:34
  Speaker 4: I don't like going out with a big group of
• 4:36
  Speaker 4: people anyway. Yeah, for any number of reason. Last time
• 4:40
  Speaker 4: we went to dinner, we just went with another couple
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  Speaker 4: that we know, and we just we do what we
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  Speaker 4: usually do, and that is order what you want and
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  Speaker 4: we split it down the middle.
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  Speaker 3: And hand them to credit cards. But you had more
• 4:54
  Speaker 3: than I did. What you had was more than I had.
• 4:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so, uh, we didn't go anywhere. We just made
• 5:02
  Speaker 4: your spaghetti sauce.
• 5:04
  Speaker 3: How that it turned out real good. He's the soy
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  Speaker 3: sauce as the ingredient.
• 5:09
  Speaker 5: No, no, yeah, my thought was that it should be
• 5:15
  Speaker 5: actually Worcester, but no, we did do the soy sauce,
• 5:17
  Speaker 5: but it is in the original recipe.
• 5:20
  Speaker 1: I heard from a couple other people. Uh, Mama Barberi's
• 5:24
  Speaker 1: pasta sauce has taken on a life of its own.
• 5:27
  Speaker 1: I got emails from people saying we made it over
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  Speaker 1: the weekend. It was great.
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  Speaker 4: It got its own Instagram page.
• 5:32
  Speaker 3: Now what was her first name? Anita?
• 5:34
  Speaker 2: I think Anita is probably looking down from heaven right
• 5:37
  Speaker 2: now and saying, most of you are doing it wrong.