Customer tattles on waitress
 

Last night my wife and I went to Olive Garden for dinner. We ordered some wine, my wife red and me white. The waitress poured my glass of wine and noticed a very small amount left in the bottle so she said I might as well have it and pored the rest of the bottle in my glass which almost filled the glass. A while later the waitress came to our table and told us the customers next to us had complained to her manager that she gave me some extra wine and she was scolded. When I got my check I noticed a line item that noted an extra amount of white wine at no charge. She had to put it on the bill. I can't believe the nerve of some people who feel it is necessary to poke their noses in other peoples business. What is going on in this country lately scares the heck out of me.

Just amazing is all I can say.

Good possibility is the other customer had wine also but did not get as much as you (the bottle was not near empty for her pour). She felt gypped when you got more and decided to "snitch".

Look on the bright side. Maybe she got a bad clam for dinner and was on the pot all night.:evil6:

I don't think it's a world wide problem, I think it's TV. People are just not able to mind their owm business.

The upside is if the yenta likely got some "special sauce" for free.:icon_hungry:

Probably should have taken your glass and poured some in her glass.

"There - now we are even. HAPPY?"


"Ya can't fix stupid!"

What goes around comes around. Its just a shame we never get to see it happen to them.

Bartenders will frequently pour the rest of a bottle into a drink if there is just a little left. I believe it's called a "spider." I don't know if that extends to waitresses and wine, but shame on the angry, jealous b****.

And shame on the manager. He should have stood up for his waitress. I wish you had said something to the manager in her defense. I hope you tipped her well. I bet the cheap jerk made her pay for the extra wine.

Was it house wine? Very odd for wine to be poured at the table unless you by the bottle.. If it's house wine you got a few pennies more than the person next to you.. If you were drinking a $25.00 a glass wine than they should be upset..but given its Olive Garden it's just petty, and I am sure it's something they do to get free stuff

Seems very petty to me too.

I think the problem is with the manager. The waitress was just building customer good will

Sadly, the server will have gotten a write-up for it plus probably having to have to pay for a glass of wine. Darden is not known for giving their servers even a little break.

What a mean-spirited, petty woman that was who complained! I hope karma bites her soon ... and hard.

We were at Olive Garden last night also, and had a great meal, also had wine, and got the 9 ounce (I think) house wine. We very satisfied, I can not believe someone complained about that. I have on a few occasions had the luck get the last of a bottle, and the little extra. I always thought this was common practice. Oh well what goes around comes around.

:sing: The Villages Florida s friendliest home town..:sing:

OP didn't say the woman was from TV, or her age. Just how petty and mean she is. Karma, karma, karma. She can't be a very happy person.

I agree it's petty, but what about the hundreds of posts here that always start with, "Did you tell the manager" whenever there's a complaint? Maybe the adjoining diners considered the waitress to be stealing. If Olive Garden policy is to pour a specified amount of wine, then it would be an infraction.

I've only seen ads for that undercover restaurant show, but isn't this the sort of thing they watch for?

It's one thing to complain about bad food or poor service but to whine because someone got something you didn't is petty at the very least. There is also a difference between over pouring and getting rid of the last of a bottle. Most servers will do this.

I would think having to "tell a manager" would be more than this situation.
This is kinda of an attitude issue where you should be able to smile an simply say, got lucky, was the end of the bottle....therefore end of the story.

Hope everyone had a Happy 4th

I'm being Devil's Advocate, but the motivation of the tattlers is unknown to anyone but them. Jealousy may not have played any part in it.

Mine was not house wine my wife's was.

Who would even notice how much wine the man at the next table is getting? :ohdear:
These customers were very petty, and obviously bored with each other's company.

Why do you assume it was a woman who complained? A man could have just as easily been the complainer. It just struck me as odd that people (not just you) are assuming it was a woman who filed a complaint.

what ever happened to fair is fair......


So your gonna pay the same price, for the lesser amount, and not question.......I think Not.....


In my opinion, the waitress should of followed the rules in regards to amount, and taken the bottle in back and finished it off herself.......:spoken:

Good thing the waitress didn't work for Cracker Barrel.

You are kidding right? Nobody said anything about a steak, nobody said a darned thing about missing half their fries. It was a tiny, measly bit of wine in the bottom of the bottle. It was either pour it out or pour it in a customer's glass. The server should be commended for using common sense.

Pretty juvenile....but I admit...I like it.

Looks like you had some whine with your meal!

I agree.....way too much complaining and bit***** about everything. I only see it here!

wow......you must of misread my post. Hypothetical......

You are just better people than I, I admit it, I would be annoyed..... Fair is Fair....

my opinion, thats what makes the world go round...

Can't blame it on the snow birds. :) I suspect whoever complained was hoping for a little extra also.. just to feel the love

OP didn't even say it was a women. He said the customers next to them complained.

Unless the server took it out of the whiner's bottle I say it's none of her business.

Back in the day we spent a lot of time at Patsy's on 56 st, they would put the whole bottle of sambuca on the table along with the espresso. Good servers take care of the customers that take care of them.

Where's the "like" button. So true

Human nature hasn't changed in 3,00 years so why start now?

Some people are miserable and their job is to help other people, to be miserable too!!!

Something of a similar nature happened to me at the gym. I forgot to bring my gym clothes and didn't want to go back home in my golf cart. So I started to worked out knowing fully that i didn't have to right shoes required. I was going to go easy ans not have any chance of hurting myself or others.

Someone took it upon themselves to inform the manager as the staff had not noticed! I wasn't bothering anyone or doing anything stupid that could affect anyone but me. I had to stop and go back home!

It must have made their day!!!

Petty people who probably don't have any friends, due to their own pettiness.
Like a little child that complains that his family member got a little more soda, that they did!

Very childish!!!

I am here on the American Embassy Residential compound in Juba, South Sudan. I always feed the cats on the compound because there are a lot of semi-domesticated strays here. After I got back in May (after the fighting ceased), they had put out a policy that we were not allowed to feed the cats anymore. It broke my heart because these cats knew me, remembered me, and followed me everywhere. I couldn't stand it, so I tried to sneak food to them anyway. One of the ladies (American) saw me feed them and within the hour she had run to Management to tell on me. I got a nasty notice from Management later that day. Later I still tried to feed them, and found out that other people also went and told on me. I got another nasty notice from Management. I am heartbroken over these poor babies. They are so hungry. It's not just TV.

I know some of you are going to say it's policy and I should abide by it. But, embassy cats are a fact of life at an Embassy, especially in 3rd world countries, and starving them and letting them get sick is not the answer to the problem. And it's only this Management group that is here now that doesn't like the cats. these cats were born on this compound and have been here for the past 2 or 3 years. Past groups (Management) didn't have a problem with us feeding them, one group even rounded them up and had them spayed and neutered, now we're not even supposed to feed them? I will not sit by and just let them starve and get sick. I still sneak them food and will continue to do so until they either send me home or leave me alone.

Don't mean to go off subject here, it's not about the cats, but the tattling after she saw me, it was none of her business? What does she care, she's not management, but she couldn't wait to run to them.

Here are three other thoughts

1. Restaurant owners are plagued with employees who feel generous with the owners inventory, especially liquor and often pour their friends free drinks. a friend who owned 3 restaurants said this practice ate heavily into his pockets.

2. If a customer is going to buy a glass of wine he/she will come out economically better off buying the entire bottle. In WSJ section on wines the author said that a person buying wine by the glass is really paying for the entire bottle of wine

3. I agree with the OP in this specific situation. But by nature most people watch to determine if they are being treated equally:police: but only a few complain:cryin2:

I wonder of the complainer would have stopped the waitress from pouring it into his or her own glass if the bottle was almost empty?

Sorry to say it is human nature that some folks are just plain AH's no matter where they live. More than likely this will not be the only time you run into them.

Rully. Truly, it was anger on his/her part that Mike's wife got something she didn't. Wanted to get the waitress in trouble.