Servers who clear away plates too early. (meals, chicken, dinners)
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I was raised to not clear plates until everyone had finished. I was the slowest eater in the family, until, my brother in law joined the family! I was surprised that my mom has gotten lax on this policy, especially, while eating out. I do realize this is a different experience than at home.
Last edited by Rangerdude_Charlie; 06-23-2015 at 03:05 PM..
I was raised to not clear plates until everyone had finished. I was the slowest eater in the family, until, my brother in law joined the family! I was surprised that my mom has gotten lax on this policy, especially as eating out. I do realize this is a different experience than at home.
Exactly! To remove someone's plate before others are finished is tantamount to saying "Hurry Up" which is extremely rude.
Interestingly, the egregious breach of etiquette the author of the article committed in not pacing his eating to match his dinner partner remains unaddressed.
Why would the faster eater have to eat slower than to match the other person? That's silly. He eats fast; the other person eats slow. It's not rude to eat faster than someone you're out to dinner with as long as the people continue making conversation and the faster eater doesn't begin making love to his iPhone as soon as he's finished eating.
Honestly when I'm done I don't want my empty plate on the table any longer. So I put my used utensils on top and push it to the nearest corner off side so it can be removed. If I don't get asked within 5 min I'll call for it to be cleared. My companions can take however long they choose.
About once a year I get asked if I'm done with food still on the plate. I don't say anything just give them a look, never had to do anything else. I'm a generous tipper but lord help the rude wait staff I'm the type of person that has no problem making a scene.
I was under the impression a plate shouldn't be removed unless the guest has placed his/her utensils in the three o'clock position with the fork/spoon faced down.
I guess when you're trying to increase table turn-over for better profits, it really doesn't matter.
If the serve staff are correctly trained NO ONE gets their plates removed until the last person finishes.
Yes. I often wonder if the kitchen is running out of clean dishes. As for an empty plate sitting in front of me, it's MY plate so what does it matter?
And then there's the over-eager server who, as he/she is removing one empty plate while others are still eating, asks brightly, "Will you be having dessert?"
I just will sort of yell at them to leave the plate as I'm not done. (Even if my food is done, sometimes I like to keep the plate if a dinnermate has some food they want me to try or we split a dessert or what not)
I don't get this often, thankfully. I could imagine it would become quite annoying.
What I've encountered from servers that bothers me are the ones who clear your table, ask you if you'd like anything else, to which you politely reply "no thank you", and they proceed to take an additional 10 minutes to bring you your bill. I can understand it happening if it's jammed packed, but most of the times when it does, the places aren't that busy. I still give them 20% if they were friendly and did a good job. The ho-hum nonchalant ones go down to 10% if they pull this particular stunt. Now if they were awesome the whole time we were there, and bring the bill early, I'll usually leave about 30%. I don't really consider myself to be an impatient person, so to speak, but I want to be able to pay my bill and leave once it's been established that I don't require anything else from the restaurant/bar..
Last edited by wvtraveler; 06-23-2015 at 09:50 PM..
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