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Vanyel The Imperious Leader Premium Fellow member

I just got back from a dinner party celebrating my parents 50th Wedding Anniversary and my cousins and I started wondering what you call that folder.
Re: What do y'all phone call the folders the waiter/waitress puts your nib in
I usually try to telephone call it somebody else's trouble.
Re: What practise you call the folders the waiter/waitress puts your bill in
A little Googling suggests information technology's called a waiter wallet.
Re: What practise you call the folders the waiter/waitress puts your bill in
I call it indigestion.
Alidar Jarok Everything in moderation but moderation Moderator

Re: What do you call the folders the waiter/waitress puts your bill in
Equally a erstwhile server myself, I tin proudly say "I haven't the slightest idea." I'chiliad trying to remember what I ever called it if it came up. I probably simply referred to it as a "thing."

That'due south not to say I didn't learn what things were when I worked there. I certainly didn't know what a ramekin was earlier I started waiting tables.
Re: What do yous telephone call the folders the waiter/waitress puts your bill in
I'd call it Phil.
Re: What do you call the folders the waiter/waitress puts your bill in
It's technically called a "bank check presenter," though nosotros in the industry just telephone call them "books."
Re: What do you lot call the folders the waiter/waitress puts your bill in
I always called them "check-holders," or "covers."

I local eating place uses onetime paperbacks as the check-holders. While I was waiting for them to pick up my credit carte du jour, I got to thumb through a very dilapidated copy of "War of the Worlds."
Re: What do you call the folders the waiter/waitress puts your bill in
It's not a eating house nib unless it comes in a faded-green plastic tray with a flake in it and with the bill you get a couple peppermint haed candies that've been sitting in the bottom of a box for a month.
Re: What practise you call the folders the waiter/waitress puts your pecker in
It never occurred to me until this thread that I never fifty-fifty considered a name for them, despite the countless times I've been given i to pay the pecker. I guess if I had to call information technology something, I would use "billfold." I'd but ever said "laissez passer me the cheque" and whomever was sitting nearest to it would hand the bank check and the folder to me, so I never actually needed a separate name for information technology.

Now I'm trying to think of some other examples of commonly used items where you never really consider the proper proper noun for it.
Alidar Jarok Everything in moderation but moderation Moderator

Re: What practise you call the folders the waiter/waitress puts your bill inYep, thinking back, I remember I would say "volume for the check" or something like that. The merely problem with "books" is someone might confuse information technology with "checkbooks."
Vanyel The Imperious Leader Premium Fellow member

Re: What exercise you call the folders the waiter/waitress puts your bill in
"Cheque Presenter" sounds expert.

I as well, worked in a eating place while in college. I never gave a idea to what they were chosen. I'd just print up the check, grab one of those things from the stack at my station, put the check in then become and gently put it on the table and say "give thanks you lot."

If there was no stack I'd inquire someone for those "things for the cheque."
Re: What do you lot call the folders the waiter/waitress puts your bill in
A folder.
Re: What do you phone call the folders the waiter/waitress puts your bill inI mean, it's 2014. The only people conveying checkbooks around are 90-years quondam...and most restaurants don't accept checks anymore anyway.
Only seriously, guys, they're called "cheque presenters." That'due south what it says on the box when you buy them.

RoJoHen - restaurant manager
Re: What exercise you call the folders the waiter/waitress puts your bill inDon't leave me hanging.
Don't feel like looking it up.
Vanyel The Imperious Leader Premium Member

Re: What practise yous telephone call the folders the waiter/waitress puts your bill inIt's a little bowl. You tin can melt some stuff in it or utilise it for condiments or salsa similar in Mexican Restaurants.
Re: What practise you call the folders the waiter/waitress puts your neb in
Ramekins:

W. breakfast in them.
Re: What practice you call the folders the waiter/waitress puts your bill in Now you lot've done it! I'grand hungry.
Re: What do you lot call the folders the waiter/waitress puts your bill in
^ That looks similar a cup of awesome.
Check presenter sounds like what you would call someone who hands you the behemothic novelty checks on game shows and lottery broadcasts.
Alidar Jarok Everything in moderation simply moderation Moderator

Re: What do you telephone call the folders the waiter/waitress puts your bill in
A Ramekin is also the metallic little cups that restaurants would put sauce, ketchup, or salad dressing in.