784Caroline brings up a good point about restaurants that have servers who are professional and attentive, but the server does not actually "serve" the food!
Runners and cooks (or sometimes even a dishwasher) bringing the food and serving it is a terrible idea. Almost always, they come with several plates in hand (instead of on a large oval tray), and when they arrive at the table they have no idea who gets what.
They often hold out the plate under the customers' faces, for everybody to breathe on it and decide whether that is theirs or not. Many times a plate is placed in front of us, only to be the wrong one and then it gets passed down the table by the other guests at the table. And I'm not talking about cheap restaurants. I'm talking about upscale ones.
Servers should do the serving, and then we are tipping them, not every other Tom Dick & Harry working in the place.
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