June 01, 2006

• Sorry, whining about how your customers pronounce items on your menu is just childish.
• Complaining about people coming in just before closing time is childish, too. You are open until 11. That does not mean customers are not allowed in after 10:30. If you don't want customers to come in after 10:30, then you should close at 10:30.
• See also... slightly NSFW due to the word "asshole" in rather large type.
• wingnut - There are people who come in at closing time, eat and act like normal restaurant customers. Then , then there are people who come in at closing time and make a fucking game of it. These people have eaten more spit, spooge, snot and god knows what else than they'll ever realize.
• Sometimes I pay with credit card and tip in cash. I always hate writing 0 on the tip line because of what it implies. Is that no big deal to waitstaff? Lately I've been writing "cash" on the tip line.
• Rolypolyman, writing O.T. (on table) is how I've understood to handle that situation.
• Anyway, this asshole knew how annoying it was for bartenders to make frozen drinks, but loved to show his power by requesting them. To top it all off, he NEVER tipped. He ordered a frozen drink! OMGZ! Yeah, better teach this guy a leason with "double doses of prescription laxative" in his drink. Sweet!!!~!
• The people complaining about pronunciation complain when people say the words in an American accent, but also when they try to say the word in the original language. In other words, the customer is always wrong. I do hate reading these sites. I relised that servers deal with people all day long and through sheer numbers will have to deal with many difficult people. Ranting is a good way of dealing. But when do they write about the polite customers? Do they notice them? And where are the blogs for teachers to tell us how horrible children are? For doctors to complain about all those annoying sick people who want treatment? Frankly, some of the worst treated people in our society aren't servers in restaurants (who tend to have some autonomy in their job, can deal with different customers), they are maids and contract cleaners. I've served in a cafe, cooked in a restaurant, and never had to put up with half of what Jan Wong did (reporter who did a month as a maid in Toronto).
• It's only natural to vent about the worst people you have to deal with - people you have a positive experience with leave you with no psychological need to vent. I've worked in both retail and food service, and unfortunately the customers who stick out in my mind are the bad ones. The good ones go without saying - doesn't that mean that we EXPECT the best from our fellow men, and are only surprised when we get the worst?
• jb, you probably aren't looking hard enough! Google is your friend.
• champagne for brekkies! yes, I'll take ten I have no fear of serving-men they say pasta fazool and I say fazooli but when I do so I do it coolly for this charming waitress could care less if a cuthtomer lithpth when he utterth an eth wait-staff are always good to me they know I'll tip over easily
• A gentleman dining at Crewe found a large mouse in his stew; Said the waiter, 'Don't shout and wave it about, or the rest will be wanting one, too.' -- Anon
• There are very few places to eat here in the boonies, and the places that are here have some pretty surly waitresses. I've been tempted to hie off to the bank and get twenty dollars in coins--twenty of the one dollar silvers--and leave a really good tip. Except I'd superglue them to the table. WHOOT!