What was wrong with her? Rude? Inefficient? Probably both and then some if she was the Worst. Waitress. Ever.
My least favourite though are waiters who however around being overly friendly. I like to meet polite, friendly staff in whatever situation, but when you're trying to eat something you don't want someone hovering about and making false sounding chit chat.
In two weeks I'm going out as well, for the first time in quite a while and I still have to decide on a restaurant. On one hand, I'd like to try something new, on the other, I like to know that I'll like the food and the surroundings.
Well, I'd had a couple drinks, and I'm a wicked lightweight these days, so possibly she wasn't the worst waitress ever, but get this:
I ask for barbeque ribs with no cornbread, fries instead. She hems and haws "Well, if you want to substitute fries it's not going to be very many..." leaving it up to me to figure out what to do. A good waitress would have said, "Would you like a side of fries?" not leave me hanging in limbo. Then, after I ordered no cornbread and Eor ordered no bun for his hamburger, she turns to go and says, "I'll bring you some bread." "NO bread," I said. Eor's hamburger, when it arrived, was on a bun. But also, as she's putting our dinner down, I'm like "Oh, weren't there some mussels?" We had ordered an appetizer and she's completely forgotten it. Later we got the mussels, sort of as desert, and there's a slice of bread across the top. Of course she didn't really notice that until I pulled it off and threw it at her put it on one of the plates she was taking away. THEN she noticed that there was a hamburger bun sitting on Eor's plate.
She was mainly not very good at her job, though I had the distinct impression that she was not too bright as well.
Oh, we just had boring American Food. Eor had a plain old hamburger. I had a half-rack of pork ribs, swimming in beans, with cole slaw and fries. Which I'm going to have more of as soon as I get out of the bath, because I'd had one rib before the steamed mussels (dessert?) came to the table. :)
Brought a rib dish without a bone plate or a spare napkin
When she finally did bring the bowl of mussels out, she set it between us and didn't give us plates to serve ourselves onto or anything for the shells. So we were both kind of hunched over the serving plate, eating over it, tossing the empty shells into a plastic serving lid.
This place was not high end, but certainly not a curry house take-away. So staff are supposed to be paying attention, or at least reasonably conscious.
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My least favourite though are waiters who however around being overly friendly. I like to meet polite, friendly staff in whatever situation, but when you're trying to eat something you don't want someone hovering about and making false sounding chit chat.
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In two weeks I'm going out as well, for the first time in quite a while and I still have to decide on a restaurant. On one hand, I'd like to try something new, on the other, I like to know that I'll like the food and the surroundings.
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I ask for barbeque ribs with no cornbread, fries instead. She hems and haws "Well, if you want to substitute fries it's not going to be very many..." leaving it up to me to figure out what to do. A good waitress would have said, "Would you like a side of fries?" not leave me hanging in limbo. Then, after I ordered no cornbread and Eor ordered no bun for his hamburger, she turns to go and says, "I'll bring you some bread." "NO bread," I said. Eor's hamburger, when it arrived, was on a bun. But also, as she's putting our dinner down, I'm like "Oh, weren't there some mussels?" We had ordered an appetizer and she's completely forgotten it. Later we got the mussels, sort of as desert, and there's a slice of bread across the top. Of course she didn't really notice that until I pulled it off and
threw it at herput it on one of the plates she was taking away. THEN she noticed that there was a hamburger bun sitting on Eor's plate.She was mainly not very good at her job, though I had the distinct impression that she was not too bright as well.
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Brought a rib dish without a bone plate or a spare napkin
When she finally did bring the bowl of mussels out, she set it between us and didn't give us plates to serve ourselves onto or anything for the shells. So we were both kind of hunched over the serving plate, eating over it, tossing the empty shells into a plastic serving lid.
This place was not high end, but certainly not a curry house take-away. So staff are supposed to be paying attention, or at least reasonably conscious.