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restaurant not to far from our lab that serves cheap curry that's |
restaurant not to far from our lab that serves cheap curry that's |
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pretty good. It's called Shaan Curry House (1489 Merivale Road, |
pretty good. It's called Shaan Curry House (1489 Merivale Road, |
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228-9759). We love them, and we think they love-hate us. We make large |
228-9759). We love them, and we think they love-hate us. We make large |
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orders. The largest to date occurred on November 21, 2004, and had 20 |
orders. The largest to date occurred on October 5, 2005, and had 30 |
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individual orders. To put this in perspective, Shaan Curry House is |
individual orders. To put this in perspective, the dining area in Shaan |
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maybe the size of a master bedroom in a house. </p> |
Curry House is maybe the size of a master bedroom in a house. </p> |
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<p> A curry is seven dollars. This makes for a difficult time if |
<p> A curry is seven dollars but we charge eight for the order. |
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people don't have exact change. So, to get around this, we've started |
The surplus dollar goes to our charity fund, the receipient of which |
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printed curry cash. If you only have a twenty dollar bill, then we will |
changes every three or four months. The profits from our curry orders |
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give you change in curry cash -- which can be redeemed for future curry |
and our chocolate drive often reaches several hundred dollars by the time |
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purchases. </p> |
comes to switch charities.</p> |
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<p> We've taken to tracking our orders. Our order history can be |
<p>Because the people in our lab rarely if ever have exact change for |
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found <a href="curries.png">here</a>. </p> |
orders we've come up with a way by which we don't need to worry about |
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paying for curry on a weekly basis. Our solution is to offer curry cash. |
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This cash comes in the form of a poker chip emblazened with "UI" that may be |
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exchanged for one curry. The cost, of course, is eight dollars. This allows |
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people to pay for weeks worth of food up front and also creates a twisted |
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little economey where favours are traded for poker chips.</p> |
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<p>For a time we tried tracking our orders but we enevitably fell behind. |
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Some subset of our history can be found <a href="curries.png">here</a>. </p> |
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