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The server acts like they're in a hurry because they are in a hurry. While your rattling off a list of 10 things that you need, food may be sitting in the window getting cold, they may have salads or desserts that need to be prepared, they may have other customers waiting on drinks or a million other things that need to be done.
Serving is like a balancing act and if one table tries to monopolize all of your time it can throw everything off.
The server acts like they're in a hurry because they are in a hurry. While your rattling off a list of 10 things that you need, food may be sitting in the window getting cold, they may have salads or desserts that need to be prepared, they may have other customers waiting on drinks or a million other things that need to be done.
Serving is like a balancing act and if one table tries to monopolize all of your time it can throw everything off.
Yeah I wouldn't be surprised if the OP came back and ranted on about how a server was spending so much time with customers at another table and all she wanted was an extra fork.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't...
OP is the glass half empty type. Those people you don't try to impress, you just get out of the way and let them move on.
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Spring, your check doesn't stay with the server, it has to be read by the chef or someone who expedites orders. A kitchen is hectic enough without trying to wade through an exhaustive list of all your wants and desires. Servers, need to tell bartenders what you want now, not what you want later, chefs need appetizers, and entrees in that order, desert later!
I rarely eat at a restaurant, never on my own accord. All the crap that goes on behind the scenes is sickening. Why would I want my food cooked by apathetic teens or people so angered by their lot in life, and then sit and eat in public with dozens of people I don't know or care about?
Spring, your check doesn't stay with the server, it has to be read by the chef or someone who expedites orders. A kitchen is hectic enough without trying to wade through an exhaustive list of all your wants and desires. Servers, need to tell bartenders what you want now, not what you want later, chefs need appetizers, and entrees in that order, desert later!
Get a job in a restaurant and you'll get it.
If the OP gets a job in a restaurant, we should all go there and make all the same demands he thinks are so reasonable.
I rarely eat at a restaurant, never on my own accord. All the crap that goes on behind the scenes is sickening. Why would I want my food cooked by apathetic teens or people so angered by their lot in life, and then sit and eat in public with dozens of people I don't know or care about?
I NEVER said 25 things. I said 4-7 things or even at much as 10 things.
It's easier, because they can do that kind of load in ONE TRIP, that's why.
YES, "BA" for bag, "BO" for box" "CH" for check. Do you think they'd really have to truly write down the entire words and not abbreviate?
They do if they have time to go back and forth. They have time to chit chat asking how you are doing, doodling on the check drawing smiley faces and writing "thank you" on the check, bussing tables, etc. They have time because it's faster doing it the way I am saying.
NO, you are saying if I need all of those things for me to just say "extra napkins" and them leave. Then when they come back, I need spoons and bags. Then when they come back, some dressing.
It's not easier, because all of those things can be gotten in ONE TRIP.
I am talking about that list you just said, like a 4-7 item list. My typical list is a box, a bag, the check, containers for my condiments, and a to-go coke. That's 5 things you listed. HOW is this ANY DIFFERENT than what I said, huh?
Getting items for multiple tables makes things NOT faster, it's actually CUTTING for that 1st table that now waits A LOT LONGER for the items they asked for. That's not fair you CUTTER!
That's not fair to serve in that manner, because it's cutting in front of the 1st table's turn.
Then that means my turn takes LONGER. Do you not have any common sense?
NO, because I go by TURNS to be fair and I wouldn't make the 1st table wait longer for their items because I wanted to be too lazy to write down a list of items and do each table one at time. It's faster for the 1st table to get all of their items in one trip. That's common sense.
I'm sure if you ever were a server you would know that your method is highly inefficient. The best servers know that each time they go to the kitchen or drink area they should be gathering items for multiple tables--NOT one at a time. Each time they are on the floor they should be delivering items to multiple tables or checking on multiple tables. It's called efficiency. You are not considering the amount of time that would be wasted walking back and forth to get each individual table what it needs.
And "cutting" on tables at a sit down restaurant? I've never heard of such a thing out of the mouth of an adult.
This really is one of the most ridiculous "great debates" I've seen. It's more like a selfish, 10 year olds rant.
Some people have no shame about trying to get free stuff out of restaurants. We sat down at our favorite table in our favorite Mexican place once, and there was no salt shaker on the table. The waiter said people steal them all the time. Ditto for flatware. That's why some restaurants don't put sweetener packs on the tables....people pocket all of them. Once all the managers in our department took our secretaries out for Administrative Professionals Day to a nice buffet in a major downtown Atlanta hotel. I noticed my secretary doing something down in her purse, which was sitting on the floor between us...she had a gallon size zip loc bag in her purse, and was filling it up with ribs from the buffet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OP, it sounds like you are one of these people. Maybe no one ever explained this to you...the prices on the menu are for the meal as served in the restaurant, which includes the price of buying the food, cooking it, washing all the dishes it is served on, paying the person who cooks it and the one who serves it. The price also includes the cost of operating the building including AC, lights, and a clean restroom stocked with free soap and TP. They even build in a little cost for people who want a take out container.
But then here you come asking for food to go, with all the condiments, in little individual cups with tops, inside a styrofoam to-go container, in a plastic bag. Thats at least a couple of dollars worth of containers, plus the extra cost for a styrofoam cup (you already used a glass at the table), a lid, a straw, and the drink to go in it.
No wonder you don't get good service. They would be saving money to ban you from the restaurant.
I must confess, my grandmother, when she was alive, used to steal all the little jelly packs on the table. She'd scoop them out of the little holder and hand them to me, saying "Here, ocnjgirl, put these in your purse". In her defense, she went through the Great Depression, lol.
Believe it or not, I can top your rib story, as disgusting as that is...I used to work in a casino in AC that had shrimp on the buffet. I can't even tell you how many people put shrimp in their purse, carry it around the casino and on the 2+ hour ride back to NY
I didn't think it was possible to write a rant this long about how long waiter/waitress remain at your table, well done, I have never had this problem and never plan to.
Spring, your check doesn't stay with the server, it has to be read by the chef or someone who expedites orders. A kitchen is hectic enough without trying to wade through an exhaustive list of all your wants and desires. Servers, need to tell bartenders what you want now, not what you want later, chefs need appetizers, and entrees in that order, desert later!
Get a job in a restaurant and you'll get it.
Most resturants...other than the very smallest of diners....use a computer system. The server enters it in the computer screen...it prints out in the kitchen or at the bar. I have not seen a hand written check at a restaurant in ages.
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. In her defense, she went through the Great Depression, lol.
