# Spaghetti in restaurants

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spaghetti-in-restaurants/683178>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 8, 2014, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spaghetti-in-restaurants/683178 "2014-03-08T06:55:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2014, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spaghetti-in-restaurants/683178/17 "2014-03-08T09:19:54Z")

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I don’t think any of the places you mentioned qualifies as a restaurant. The standard that my friends and I use for a restaurant is, if you pay your bill before you eat it isn’t a restaurant. It may be somewhere between McDonalds and a restaurant but it isn’t a restaurant.

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