To continue from the last conversation partner meeting, last Wednesday, my Brazilian conversation partner and I had lunch at Sumo Sabi. Today we talked again about the food, all the protein that was in the sushi and what have you. My CP also saw the way the restaurant made their sushi and was very intrigued! Sumo Sabi apparently makes their sushi via machine, you can say that they were fastly mass producing it so that the restaurant held the same consistency and skill level in making their sushi.
My CP and I both placed our orders and we discussed about payment for the food. He asked me if I tipped the waiters/waitresses here and I told him that I did. He said that in Brazil, people usually do not tip, they view it as a required service that the employees must practice and is part of their job description. I then told him that in the states, people tipped because of good service and just left it at that because I didn't want to be culturally insensitive.
We each ate our lunch and he asked about a phrase, "see you on the flip-side." I told him that that phrase stemmed from the age where disc jockeys still used record players and once they flipped the record, the audience would not hear them. Therefore, the phrase, "see you on the flip side," meant that you will see each other again some other time. We talked more about the food and working out then we left.
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