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By now, restaurants along the marina were The bill for four topped a hundred dollars,
full, except for one next to the tender dock that which made us look twice at the tally where we
billed itself as a gastropub. Red flags were noticed a 20 percent tip had been added. The
waving frantically, but we were hungry and server, who brimmed with cheerfulness
craving real tequila in real margaritas. The throughout the meal, turned surly when we
margaritas were thirst-quenching, but the didn’t pony up an additional cash tip.
meal, not so much. The fish and shrimp tacos He dismissed the gratuity already on the
came without shredded cabbage or white tab as “just a little tip.”
sauce we love in the authentic seafood tacos It was a classic tourist trap, and we should
served in San Diego and Baja beach towns. The have known better.
meager spoonful of refried beans was cold.

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