Sentence examples for run a tab from inspiring English sources

You could run a tab, pay by the week or month.

"You can run a tab," he told the bartender, and added, "I could use some water, too, when you get a minute".

During the 1920s, department stores started issuing charge plates or coins -- round or rectangular and mostly made from metal -- to encourage loyal customers to run a tab.

Like a good bar, which in some ways it resembled, Serendipity allowed customers to run a tab and pay more or less when they wanted.

Drivers still request their initials on license plates, sandwich shops let regulars run a tab and Mayor David N. Cicilline greets residents by name and lists his home number in the phone book.

If you are sitting at the bar you always run a tab and pay at the end (rather than by glass), so that's when you include a gratuity if you want to.

I'm running a tab here, James.

The administration is running a tab without disclosing what the costs have been..

Mr. DiBartolo said he is such a steady customer that the city runs a tab for him.

In place of credit cards, the management still runs a tab for regulars and mails a bill at the end of the month.

Lerman and Foy were compulsive accumulators, haunting the junk shops under the Third Avenue el, running a tab at Vito Gallo's antique store, where they were in friendly competition with Andre Leon Tally and Andy Warhol for the best finds.