What annoys you at restaurants?Follow

Managers that look like they haven't showered in a week coming to your table for a chat.

It's always great to see someone that is supposed to be professional look like trash.

If you were a real boy? You could do forward somersaults as you lie to yourself. Much enjoyment, and a possible 911 call would ensue.








I just used the word ensue... The boys at the peterbilt shop will be proud!

It could be worse. When my dad was engaged to his current wife, they went to dinner at some diner with her parents. Her parents are southern baptist and very....strict. Anyway, the watiress comes over to take their order, flirts with my dad, and then sits down on his knee. If you knew my dad, picturing this in your head would make you laugh. Alot.

He said his first instinct was to let his leg go slack so that she would fall onto the floor on her butt. I dunno why he didn't.

So you got pissed that a waitress sat down with you and, in retaliation, you made some Mexican busboy's next hour of mopping and cleaning miserable.

Well, that makes sense, I guess.

Edited, Sun Dec 18 11:40:55 2005 by Jophiel

... and just where is your avatar missy?

The only thing that bugs me when I am out to dinner is other patrons. I really can not understand how some people can give a waiter a hard time for "not warm bread."

The lack of respect that some people show to a server is amazing. No need to flip out and mock the person serving you. (unless he/she 100% deserves it) I am glad most of the time they get ***** or spit served a la carte.

Ed Debevic's is a strange place. Their entire gimmick is to be as rude as possible. When I was there, one waitress walked over a table carrying a pot of hot coffee.

Your husband should have replied, "Why did your fat *** eat everything off the dinner menu?"

I don't think that is the case, not the way he said it. And I am not sure what middle eastern joint you are talking about, there are alot of places to eat a "few streets off Bourbon!"

Hey, I remember that place! I ran head-first into a big green light pole nearby...

I've begun to have a problem more and more with waitresses lately. I understand that they make less than minimum wage and I understand that the management jerks around with them. However, I've never been able to determine why that is my problem.

That being said I almost always tip 20%. The food isn't the waitresses fault, unless she splits some of the tip with the cooks... then she might have to whip some as[/i]s.

My biggest pet peve is when my drink doesn't get refilled. Keeping my drink from hitting the bottom ensures at least a 15% tip. Don't complain about that either, fuc[/i]kers. Where I'm from 10% is the bare minimum, 15% is average, and 20% is a reward. I am in no way bound to reward someone for what I consider an average level of service.

What really gets my goat is when you know the waitress has given up on the tip long before the end of the meal. That is just plain disrespectful. Case in point: the other night I went out to eat at Gilligan's (never eat there, btw) and she gave us poor service from the word go. A degree of situational awareness would have probably earned her around $18-20 for her hour's work in tips. As it was I don't think she quite managed $10, if that. Why? She saw a group of late teens/low twenties and blew us off. If she had paid attention she would have noticed (from the huge freaking ring) that I'm a college graduate, that I'm married (from the other ring), and that I can afford a pretty nice engagement ring from the one of my wife's finger. Instead, we had poor service all night. I had nothing in my glass from the time the salads arived until the end of the meal. Part of my order was left out and I could go on. My wife was nice enough to give her a 10% tip... though I would hardly describe what we got as "service".

I've done my time in foodservice where there were no tips, just long hours behind the counter, I have sympathy but no desire to give a handout. I don't ask for that much, but my level of generosity decays rapidly.

I put myself thru college and helped raise a couple babies with tips.

Let me just say that some people, no matter HOW much they may tip, are worth sucking up too.