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I have notices some parents actually encourage their kids to scream! I've seen parents play with a baby/toddler, by dangling some sort of toy, etc, until the kid lets out a scream, then they reward the child with the item I guess that's considered cute for them, but totally obivilous of others around them, trying to enjoy their meal. No, really, I don't think your little prince/princess screaming is some sort of treat!
Maybe I should respond in kind, start making obscene/weire/disgusting sounds....sorry, folks, I have Tourettes.deal with it!
They've run out of an item I ordered. If I am there at 6 or 7pm for dinner, I don't want to hear that they've run out of anything. That is prime dinner time. Everything on the menu should be available. It's not like it's 9 or 10 pm!
Servers who can't make recommendations because they haven't tried the food.
No cream for the coffee. Only milk or non-dairy creamer.
Servers who are so busy flirting or chatting with one another that you can't get their attention.
Restaurants with no sound-absorbing materials, so that the place is a din of voices, ringing cell phones, clanging dishes, cutlery, and music.
Misbehaving children.
I hate having the gratuities automatically taken out if I've been displeased with the service.
1/ I've made reservations, but still don't have a table and must wait for 20-30 minutes for one.
2/ Rude waitstaff.
3/ Place is not clean
4/ Folks near me not minding their table manners.
This is a really whiney thread,so I'll play along:
Customers who are rude to the servers
People who don't like (well behaved) children should be put on the menu (eat in one the elitist places that don't allow kids, otherwise STHU).
Now that I got that off my chest, I don't like being addressed as "guys" in mixed company and for some reason being asked how everything "tastes" bugs me. Not the fact that they're checking, that's fine, but that exact phrase for some reason irritates me. I also find forced, feigned friendliness ("welcome to Cicis!") annoying and phony.
The whole waiter system in America bugs me. I often compare it to the chinese restaurants where any waiter can help you and are usually standing around to do so. No having to find your waiter and if you forgot to ask them something you have to wait at least 5 mins to see them again since they just checked on you. And when they give you the check they run away so [unless you're paying cash with no change needed] you have to wait another 5 minutes to get out of there.
Sure the chinese waiters may not serve you with a big smile but they do their job. I'm not exactly smiling from my waiter service anyway... just be there the second I need you - that's all I ask. I thought they were the waiters, but... well, I guess joke's on us.
Yea, I know this is a "1st world problem", but this is the food forum, so tell us what little annoyances seem to happen to you every time you eat out...
Today we went to the Cheesecake Factory after 18 months. I could not remember why we hadn't gone back but I got my answer today. It took approximately 10 minutes for our waiter to get our order even when the place only had another family eating there and a different waiter was taking care of their table. Less than a minute after we got our coffees and cakes, a woman came with our bill, offering to-go boxes and telling us this was the time to order anything else we wanted to take home. DH and I just looked at each other. The woman came two more times to see if I had already left my card to charge us and made sounds of exasperation when she saw we weren't ready to leave.
I hate places that rush their customers. I simply don't go back. If they want my money they must provide a pleasant environment.
My dad had a sure-fire way of getting the check when it seemed the waitperson was clueless that he was waiting for it. He stood up and put his coat on (if he had worn one). Amazing how quickly they'd appear with the check then.
Waiters prancing to all of the empty tables around you spraying that gawd-awful commercial cleaner in huge clouds that take your breath away and infiltrate your sinuses while you are trying to eat.
I actually stopped eating at my favorite salad bar place because it had a fast table turnover at lunch and the staff was constantly holding those spray bottles full of some nasty ammonia chemicals like 2 feet above every table next to me and pumping the bottle 20 times while spraying huge clouds of chemicals all over.
I have even had them decide to clean the windows and doors next to my table with loads of Windex to remove finger prints.
How can anyone eat inside a toxic ammonia cloud?
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I guess that's considered cute for them, but totally obivilous of others around them, trying to enjoy their meal. No, really, I don't think your little prince/princess screaming is some sort of treat!
