My favorite interaction with a waitress happened at a waterfront cafe in Florida. They had frog legs on the menu, which is rare. I said, "You have frog legs?" She politely said, "Yes, sir." I said, "Well wear baggy pants and no one will notice!"
My favorite interaction with a waitress happened at a waterfront cafe in Florida. They had frog legs on the menu, which is rare. I said, "You have frog legs?" She politely said, "Yes, sir." I said, "Well wear baggy pants and no one will notice!"
My favorite interaction with a waitress happened at a waterfront cafe in Florida. They had frog legs on the menu, which is rare. I said, "You have frog legs?" She politely said, "Yes, sir." I said, "Well wear baggy pants and no one will notice!"
Yeah, it's one of the ways I measure service. If the glass goes empty and for how long. The server doesn't control the kitchen, so how long the food takes is not in them, it's on the kitchen.It may be annoying to the tea drinkers, but its really a case of "take your chances with the odds" and also trusting people to be able to say "No, thank you, my drink is fine." Its really not that big a deal, I know, but its one of my pet peeves to be sitting at a restaurant and my drink run dry. It is one of the simplest things that a waiter can do to improve customer experience. Also, if someone has something to drink, then they don't notice that their food has taken a bit extra time if things get really busy in the kitchen, but thirsty patrons make impatient ones.
And I was cute once, or at least my mom told me I was...
FROG LEGS, did someone mention FROG LEGS??? You're my hero, I love you..... Not as much as I love FROG LEGS though..... It's way too damned hard to find them outside of south GA and a few places in FL. I like to go frog gigging but it's difficult to find anyone to go with me, seems their afraid of the dark...... God only knows what's out there after dark..... (nothing that wasn't there during daylight!!) But according to the guys I invite to go it's sudden death to be on a lake after dark. Maybe I should start inviting their WIFE'S to go..... they seem to have bigger balls.....
I’d be thrilled if they had garlic and cayenne.My wife and I went to a diner in rural NY State. Coffee sucked, looked like weak tea, not coffee. The omelets sucked. Would never go there again.
If I had a breakfast diner I'd have Reapers and Ghost peppers as an option for adding heat to breakfast.
With this thread I picture you bringing your own plastic utensils in a baggie. AKA Jack Nicholson ‘As Food As It Gets’.Y’all don’t get me wrong....
I’m a fairly decent human being that can be down right social. Service industry folks work way harder than I do and get paid squat.
I just can’t be expected to acknowledge my privilege before 10am.
Im’a guessin’ y’aint from round here.what eva happened to 'sir' or ma'm ...
so damn tired of 'sweetie', honey, babe, sugah.... and the like
FROG LEGS, did someone mention FROG LEGS??? You're my hero, I love you..... Not as much as I love FROG LEGS though..... It's way too damned hard to find them outside of south GA and a few places in FL. I like to go frog gigging but it's difficult to find anyone to go with me, seems their afraid of the dark...... God only knows what's out there after dark..... (nothing that wasn't there during daylight!!) But according to the guys I invite to go it's sudden death to be on a lake after dark. Maybe I should start inviting their WIFE'S to go..... they seem to have bigger balls.....
We sell them at work, if you're anywhere near Reidsville come get some
I pictured it more like this:
Pretty much. Most of the places I like to eat, their coffee is barely fit to water weeds with. I'll either make my own beforehand (safer), or if we are running late, or the wife is really hungry, I'll just wait until we get back.Decent coffee in a restaurant these days is an oxymoron. Real regular freshly brewed coffee gets overlooked even in fancy places that get all het up about where the cow slept but don't give a rats ass about coffee unless you buy a Specialty Coffee. In that case, its the same shit with a bit of Hersheys syrup and a squirt of Reddi- Whip for $8.
If I go out for breakfast I first make coffee at home, drink 2 or 3 cups, then switch to O.J. at the diner. Less stressful.
I mostly drink water these days. If I run out, and a bit of time goes by, I'll suck on the straw a bit. If the servers and/or management are ANY kind of on the ball, that WILL get their attention, because they are not the only ones who can hear it. It tells the whole restaurant that someone let a customer run dry I've had folks come running, and I've also been ignored (as in, they didn't seem to get what I was "saying"). Ignoring seems to be the norm now...and I mean "not knowing to refill the glass, out of ignorance" as opposed to "I'm ignoring that rude noise you are making."It may be annoying to the tea drinkers, but its really a case of "take your chances with the odds" and also trusting people to be able to say "No, thank you, my drink is fine." Its really not that big a deal, I know, but its one of my pet peeves to be sitting at a restaurant and my drink run dry. It is one of the simplest things that a waiter can do to improve customer experience. Also, if someone has something to drink, then they don't notice that their food has taken a bit extra time if things get really busy in the kitchen, but thirsty patrons make impatient ones.
And I was cute once, or at least my mom told me I was...
I mostly drink water these days. If I run out, and a bit of time goes by, I'll suck on the straw a bit. If the servers and/or management are ANY kind of on the ball, that WILL get their attention, because they are not the only ones who can hear it. It tells the whole restaurant that someone let a customer run dry I've had folks come running, and I've also been ignored (as in, they didn't seem to get what I was "saying"). Ignoring seems to be the norm now...and I mean "not knowing to refill the glass, out of ignorance" as opposed to "I'm ignoring that rude noise you are making."
Oh, I can't imagine. I'm grateful to God I never had to work a job like that (well, so far in my life; you never know what tomorrow might bring!). Dairy farming might be physically hard, but it's mentally and emotionally easier than some other things.Yup, and that would not have flown at my brothers place (where I mainly worked). Slight back story...my older brothers were in the restaurant business, and for a time my middle brother and his wife ran a café in downtown Winston. I would work there between full time jobs elsewhere, and even then sometimes at nights and on weekends to make extra cash or to help out. And having a brother/sister in law as the boss was NOT always a great thing. That man would come down on me hard if I screwed up...kinda the "I cant have my own brother looking like a loser here" mentality. He and his wife worked the line, but being an open air café even he sometimes would look out, see something that needed fixing and stick his Pumas into a waiters back side.
The biggest problem we had would be on Friday nights during the summer when Winston would have Jazz or music festival stuff going on in the streets. The place would be packed, but it would also be flooded by people who just wanted to use thebathroom. And as a small café with only two single seater bathrooms, that couldn't fly. That and people from the festival that would want to bring in outside alcohol, which is a BIG nono.
Let's talk about this too. Eggs .04 each, grits .02 per serving, toast .03 apiece, Some meat .25, some coffee .15. Extras, like sugar, cream, cheeze another .10. About 75 Cents all in. 1,000% on supplies. OOOOOPH!! In Murder Beach, pancake and breakfast houses make owners Very Wealthy. Way better ratio than other eateries.what? And be anti-social? The community needs my $7.50.
I'll give them slack if they are forced to do shit like that, and will usually joke with them about it.
Let's talk about this too. Eggs .04 each, grits .02 per serving, toast .03 apiece, Some meat .25, some coffee .15. Extras, like sugar, cream, cheeze another .10. About 75 Cents all in. 1,000% on supplies. OOOOOPH!! In Murder Beach, pancake and breakfast houses make owners Very Wealthy. Way better ratio than other eateries.
Not in the Pancake...breakfast business.I dunno....a very good friend of mine owns the local deli. Very popular place, good quality meats and creative menu for a deli. Even so it's a deli, not Ruth's Chris. His food costs have dramatically increased in the last couple years. Margins are generally very slim in food service.
I was raised on a farm. We don't use little glasses for nuthin'.then switch to O.J. at the diner.
If you wear headphones they quit talking to you after the first time and you get to listen to your own music while you eat and read.
...and you don’t even have to have the other end plugged in. I used to travel a lot, mainly having to fly. I’d stick earbuds in as soon as I got through security. Sometimes the other end was in an iPod, sometimes it wasn’t.That there is an excellent idea.
nawp..... born heah made it for 60 and 9 months thus far.Im’a guessin’ y’aint from round here.
Let's talk about this too. Eggs .04 each, grits .02 per serving, toast .03 apiece, Some meat .25, some coffee .15. Extras, like sugar, cream, cheeze another .10. About 75 Cents all in. 1,000% on supplies. OOOOOPH!! In Murder Beach, pancake and breakfast houses make owners Very Wealthy. Way better ratio than other eateries.
...I would make up a 2-sided message board for each table.
Side A would say:
That would indicate to the overly chatty and chipper waitstaff that I want to be left the $#@)@#%$) alone to drink my coffee, eat my omelette, wake up and read my book. If it's before noon, unless you're my wife or kid, I really don't give a rat's ass about the weather, how you're doing, the last movie you saw or the state of your finances.
- Don't interrupt me 10 times asking if everything is OK. They're eggs, it'll be ok.
- Don't ask me if I like my book. If I didn't like it, I wouldn't be reading it.
- You don't need to tell me that it's the check you just dropped off and that I can pay when I'm ready. I don't need a 5-paragraph ops order to pay the bill.
Side B would say:
I have no earthly idea what 'Side B' of this placard would say because who the heck would want it any other way!?
Signed...
Not a morning person. Leave me alone.
And, get off my lawn.
Not in the Pancake...breakfast business.
Yep! McDicks probably pays .03 cents or less for and egg portion, .10 or less for sausage, and less than a nickel for cheeze, total .22 cents. That's a pretty good Gross Profit on a Sausage, egg, and cheeze biscuit. Over 1,000%.I used to be the GM of a McDonald’s. Breakfast is so much more profitable it’s ridiculous. They didn’t go to All Day Breakfast due to popular demand, the did it to increase profit margins. We’d make twice as much profit off of breakfast sales as we would lunch.
You're not factoring in the $15/hour "worker" that has to pile it all together. Turns the equation into a net loss of a billion dollars.Yep! McDicks probably pays .03 cents or less for and egg portion, .10 or less for sausage, and less than a nickel for cheeze, total .22 cents. That's a pretty good Gross Profit on a Sausage, egg, and cheeze biscuit. Over 1,000%.