Let's see if we can make it to 100. I'll start.
1. Snapping fingers - The waiter/waitress didn't tell you there name to be snapped at. Did it occur to you that perhaps they weren't ignoring you, but helping the other folks they was speaking to?
2. Cell phones - In the middle of anything that the waiter/waitress is doing if your cell phone rings, do not hold up your index finger and take the call.
3. Tipping - It's just the way it's done in America. If you want European style dining then go to Europe or prepare to pay a heck of a lot more and receive way worse service.
Have fun y'all.
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Beach Fanatic
4. If you are in a large party, attempt to combine requests of the waitstaff so that when they bring 1 extra salad dressing, another individual doesn't ask for some extra butter, thereby sending the poor server on a "one item relay". If they are only serving your table, no problem. But the poor 4-top right next to you hasn't seen a server all night.
SoWal Expert
5. Eat the entire dish, then claim something was wrong with it and want it taken off the bill.
Beach Fanatic
6. Be insensitive to the service folks and fellow diners.
Beach Comber
7. If you have a large party and everyone sucks their drinks down and request immediate refills before the server has had a chance to put the last drink down, don't get mad at the server for your tummies grumbling.
Banned
8. Order milk to drink. It's just wrong.
Beach Fanatic
9.Ask the server what their favorite item on the menu is. Chances are they have eaten everything on the menu so many times that they would rather eat a Whopper.
Beach Fanatic
10. Dont ask, when the check arrives, why there is an addition charge for a substitute item, when it is clearly stated on the menu the additional charges. Take time to read the menu...most servers are more than happy to give customers extra time to go over it.
SoWal Insider
11. Just plain rudeness! UGH Don't do it.
Beach Fanatic
linger at a table for hours on a weekend night when there is clearly a long wait.
Moderator
13. Ask a server to split a huge check AFTER he / she has brought it to the table at the end of the meal. Do them a favor and ask before everybody orders.
Beach Lover
Use a toothpick at the table.
Beach Lover
In response to the comment of paying more and receiving worse service in Europe. It has not been my experience at all. Perhaps in the tourist traps of the big cities( Paris, London, Madrid), but in general I found the service to be better. I prefer to have my tip be included in the bill and and my meal to be priced perhaps a little higher so the wait staff can earn a living, decent wage. I wouldn't like my livelihood based on the whim of diners and the skewed ideas of the restaurant lobby. Which are the people who actually maintain this archaic, exploitive system. And yes I have waited tables (right here on 30A and elsewhere), but not one day longer than I had to.
Beach Lover
In response to the comment of paying more and receiving worse service in Europe. It has not been my experience at all. Perhaps in the tourist traps of the big cities( Paris, London, Madrid), but in general I found the service to be better. I prefer to have my tip be included in the bill and and my meal to be priced perhaps a little higher so the wait staff can earn a living, decent wage. I wouldn't like my livelihood based on the whim of diners and the skewed ideas of the restaurant lobby. Which are the people who actually maintain this archaic, exploitive system. And yes I have waited tables (right here on 30A and elsewhere), but not one day longer than I had to.
Well-said.
beats on hood
beats on hood
5. Eat the entire dish, then claim something was wrong with it and want it taken off the bill.Helllllz to the Yeah! Right on, sistah!
SWGBAuthor
#16. Have the dish drastically changed and then complain that it doesn't taste right.
Beach Lover
Dont blow your nose at the table. Im always seeing thee old men get thru with their meals and pull out a reusable snot rag and start honking down. Gross
Beach Fanatic
Dont blow your nose at the table. Im always seeing thee old men get thru with their meals and pull out a reusable snot rag and start honking down. Grossewww... and a first for me last night.. child with nose bleed and the parent asked the server to take away the bloody napkins. Do I look like I want to touch THAT? And then look totally offended when latex gloves were worn back to the table. Do you get offended when you see an EMT or cop put on gloves when possibly having to come in contact with gross fluids?( I mean at least they were kinda flesh colored ones.. not those purple ones,lol)
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Beach Fanatic
ewww... and a first for me last night.. child with nose bleed and the parent asked the server to take away the bloody napkins. Do I look like I want to touch THAT? And then look totally offended when latex gloves were worn back to the table. Do you get offended when you see an EMT or cop put on gloves when possibly having to come in contact with gross fluids?( I mean at least they were kinda flesh colored ones.. not those purple ones,lol)
:shock: inexplicable...
SoWal Expert
8. Order milk to drink. It's just wrong.
It all depends - I have been places where you get asked which kind of milk you want and get free refills. I personally think drinking Coke at meals is just wrong.
Though after I got a mini carton plopped on the table at Bud & Alleys, I figured out not to try and drink milk w/ meals out around here.
SoWal Expert
ewww... and a first for me last night.. child with nose bleed and the parent asked the server to take away the bloody napkins. Do I look like I want to touch THAT? And then look totally offended when latex gloves were worn back to the table. Do you get offended when you see an EMT or cop put on gloves when possibly having to come in contact with gross fluids?( I mean at least they were kinda flesh colored ones.. not those purple ones,lol)
I am glad they put on gloves~! Screw those nasty rude people who questioned following BASIC precautions for dealing with BLOOD!
SWGBAuthor
It all depends - I have been places where you get asked which kind of milk you want and get free refills. I personally think drinking Coke at meals is just wrong.
Though after I got a mini carton plopped on the table at Bud & Alleys, I figured out not to try and drink milk w/ meals out around here.
Those cartons are ultra pasteurized and last for months. You could have probably asked your server to go to the kitchen and ask for some milk. I wouldn't trust a kitchen that doesn't have a basic ingredient like milk.
Beach Fanatic
I am glad they put on gloves~! Screw those nasty rude people who questioned following BASIC precautions for dealing with BLOOD!
ABSOLUTELY!
It's stunning that they would be offended by the gloves... in an eating establishment of all places.
SoWal Expert
Those cartons are ultra pasteurized and last for months. You could have probably asked your server to go to the kitchen and ask for some milk. I wouldn't trust a kitchen that doesn't have a basic ingredient like milk.
I wasn't worried about the freshness, more the fact that I got a carton. Guess I thought for $30 an entree they could have actually put it in a glass. :roll:
Beach Fanatic
I wasn't worried about the freshness, more the fact that I got a carton. Guess I thought for $30 an entree they could have actually put it in a glass. :roll:
I get where you're coming from... it grosses me out to drink from cartons, plastic cups, etc. Were you at least provided a glass to pour the carton contents into?
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