It's been said that your typical professional hockey players are amongst the most miserly millionaires to exist on planet Earth. It's a heresy assumption, but this story from Edmonton, Alberta is pretty strong evidence there may be something to that belief.
Apart from the bigger story (over-serving alcohol in a licensed establishment), I was amused to read that the players from the Edmonton Oilers were said to have gone "ballistic" when they received an $18,000 bill for the food and drinks. I thought it one hellova tab until I realized that it wasn't for a table of four, but for a group of *45* players.
If your math is bad like mine, here's the breakdown. Assuming there's a 10% gratuity (which is low), the original bill works out to $360 per player, which for a five star restaurant, with all the reported food (and especially) the numerous bottles of alcohol consumed, it's actually a pretty good deal.
Apparently the Oilers and the restaurant manager settled on 12 grand, which without any gratuity included, works out to just $267 per player.
What a ridiculous story - from the government "investigating" the dinner, to the abhorrent cheapskatery of those hockey players.
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