Re: Restaurant Rules as written by your server

jmcquown wrote:

Michael "Dog3" Lonergan wrote:


"jmcquown" <jmcquown@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> hitched up their panties and
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Michael "Dog3" Lonergan wrote:


"jmcquown" <jmcquown@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> hitched up their panties and
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Jude wrote:


Pete C. wrote:



Additionally, when two tables that were seated after my table are
served before my table,


Oh, I forgot that one. That never makes me happy! Even worse, when
the people who came in and wer still waiting when you were seated
are FINISHED AND LEAVING just as your entree arrives.


Now you've got me on a tangent! LOL I've been on both sides of
the fence, folks, but there is no excuse for a party seated after
another to be served later unless they ordered later.

Jill


Depends on what each table ordered. Maybe everyone at the table next
to you ordered salads while your table ordered steaks, burgers etc.

Michael


We ordered bacon & eggs; they ordered all sorts of stuff and I won't
go into it but it was a case of "reverse" discrimination. We tipped
the server (well) for the coffee and walked out.

Jill


Well here's one for ya'. Steven and I used to suffer through the
Symphony with his father and step mother. Now, one evening the folks
invited 5 other couples to join us for dinner (pre Symphony mind
you). We went to a very nice place at the Chase. The place was
mobbed. The other 5 couples all insisted on separate checks. The
server complied but you can imagine how the food came out of the
kitchen with 6 different checks for one table. The other 5 couples
did nothing but bitch when all of the plates did not arrive at the
same time. I mean they really bitched. Last Symphony I ever attended
with Steven's parents. Steven suffered through it again but I would
always politely decline.

Michael



Okay, I hate it when people I'm dining with do nothing but bitch. Still,
having been a server, separate checks should not pose a problem. The guest
checks should be attached together and submitted to the expeditor as one
batch. It's not at all a difficult concept. As the food comes up, it's up
to the server to make sure it's all together and take it to the table at one
time (with help if there are a ton of plates). It's common sense.

One thing that *really* bugs me as a customer is when the server arrives at
the table, gets this blank look on their face and has to ask, "who had
the ---?" The rule is simple. When taking orders, start at the outside
left and work your way around the table, clockwise. Label the tickets 1, 2,
3, 4, like that. Then when you take out the food you know who gets what
without having to ask, although you may need to consult the tickets if the
party is a large one.

Jill




That reminds me of a recent disaster which I have actually been trying to forget. A couple of weeks ago I was at a farewell dinner for a prominent fish in my little professional pond. Cost $125 per head, and the whole thing was abominably badly organized. I won't go into all the gory details, it's not good for my blood pressure.

I have an allergy to seafood. Well, I thought, there shouldn't be a problem. At functions like this you try to have a fairly neutral menu, and anyway there will be quite a few people of the Jewish persuasion who don't eat shellfish either. So of course the mains were chicken stuffed with prawns, fish in a lobster bisque and filet steak with pancetta (more or less tournedos rossini). I never have steak when I'm out, steak is something I can cook for myself, but I had no choice.

I ordered it medium, and my neighbour, a nice woman but a bit daffy, ordered hers well done. "I suppose the chef will be upset," she simpers with girlish charm that she has been practising for at least 30 years.

She wasn't at the table when the plates arrived. I told the waiter that mine was the medium. You guessed it, it was well done. At first I was inclined to blame the kitchen. When my neighbour returned, she got stuck into hers, no complaints. After a while I had a close look at her steak (not difficult, the restaurant had jammed us in to the tables like battery chooks). It looked decidedly pink.

"I think you've got the wrong one, that looks medium to me."

"Oh, do you think so? It's quite nice, perhaps I should try it like this again."

"No, no, dear, you can't possibly be forced to eat the wromg one. I've hardly touched mine. No, no, I don't mind that you've eaten half of yours, they're too big anyway, I'd never be able to eat the whole thing anyway."

I then took my fork and swapped steaks. I was desperate, my entree had been a modest caesar salad which had taken two hours to arrive.

Christine
Who only really enjoys bunfights which she had organized herself.
.

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