[Meddick]

Not a major issue, but my pet peeve is when a servers asks if you have saved room for desert when you are only half finished with your main course.

Also, the poor sentence structure with "If you want anything, my name is so and so". I often feel like asking what their name is if I do not want anything.

[CFrance]

Originally Posted by Meddick

Not a major issue, but my pet peeve is when a servers asks if you have saved room for desert when you are only half finished with your main course.

Also, the poor sentence structure with "If you want anything, my name is so and so". I often feel like asking what their name is if I do not want anything.

Thanks for my morning laugh!

[Barefoot]

Originally Posted by Meddick

Also, the poor sentence structure with "If you want anything, my name is so and so". I often feel like asking what their name is if I do not want anything.

That never occurred to me, but it's funny.
You must have majored in English or Journalism.

[TheVillageChicken]

Originally Posted by bluedog103

That's a pretty cold way to look at tipping. Let's not tip the non-breakfast servers less. Any server who provides good service deserves a decent tip. That $10.00 breakfast with umpteen coffee refills is worth more than a measly $2.00 tip. While we're at it, is it really going to break the bank to calculate the tip on the total check, not on the the pre-tax amount? These servers work very hard, and it isn't just the physical work that is exhausting. The tough part is putting up with some really difficult customers. I think most customers in TV treat the restaurant staff very well but it only takes a small minority to make the job miserable for the restaurant workers and we've all seen customers berating servers in our local restaurants.

The first part was tongue in cheek.

The part about the post tax calculation is just an observation that the restaurant's software is pulling a fast one.

I don't use percentages anyway. The other day, I undertipped at OG because the server had his head up his backside...after three requests, he brought the breadsticks...I was done with the salad by then. Two days later, I tipped ten bucks on a $32 bill at Lighthouse because I thought we were treated courteously and efficiently.

[RickdeMasi]

When the waitperson asks, " so how are you guys ? " Number 1, my wife is not a guy and number 2, I am 40 years older than you, Ma'am and Sir is more appropriate.

[birdawg]

Blowing one's nose at the table. Disgusting

[Bavarian]

Originally Posted by justjim

I wonder if all Olive Gardens will do this...if not, we'll search out another one. One time I was with a group of 10 at O.G. (and yes, they were pretty loud) and three bowls of salad were placed on the table and the server disappeared! I didn't say anything because I didn't want to draw attention as it was my first time out with them, but how inconsiderate was this?
Enjoyed the lesson on what tipping means and what tip stand for...it will make a difference on how much we tip. My husband lets me set the tip and I always erred on the side of generosity.

Regarding Olive Garden. The reason for not bringing more breadsticks is that they get cold. Also, there may be some at the table who doesn't eat bread.

A major Stockholder supposedly wanted to cut back on waste. It's all about profits but this policy could backfire.

I admire the hard work Servers do---tough job pleasing everybody. I do agree some could use better training.

Group noise is my pet peeve. When people get too loud it's often caused from too much drink. More partitions would help in some restaurants and a separate room for large groups.[/QUOTE]

Darden is having an attempted takeover in progress. I have received proxies from both sides, each saying how they can boost revenue. The site Olive Garden giving out too many breadsticks. My wife wants more black olives, seem like at most 1 per salad bowl,

[Barefoot]

Originally Posted by RickdeMasi

When the waitperson asks, " so how are you guys ? " Number 1, my wife is not a guy and number 2, I am 40 years older than you, Ma'am and Sir is more appropriate.

Oh jeepers, it must be hard for servers to get it right and please everyone.
I wouldn't even notice if the server addressed us as "you guys". But I dislike being Ma'amed.

[OCsun]

Originally Posted by RickdeMasi

When the waitperson asks, " so how are you guys ? " Number 1, my wife is not a guy and number 2, I am 40 years older than you, Ma'am and Sir is more appropriate.

Hence the reference to grouchy old people!

[tomwed]

I must be another grouch. I just got back from NY Pizza. We didn't finish the pie and the waitress asked "Are we going to want a box?".

Was it Jack Nicholson who went ballistic when Nurse Crachet used the word "we" in every question?

"You Guys" or "Youse Guys" from where I'm from, is like "Y'all" down south. It's a "one size fits all" expression that northerners don't even notice in all but the classiest of establishments.

[slipcovers]

I think there is way too much salt in the food and sometimes floating in butter.

I think that the folks that have complaints for the servers, obviously, have never had that job. I was a waitress in collage and I would rather stand on the corner with a cup than be a waitress again. I always tip at least 20%, and as long as I feel they are doing their best, that is fine with me. They have no control over the kitchen, which is a ZOO, or the bartenders. I could give a laundry list, but I won't.

[patfla06]

Originally Posted by birdawg

Blowing one's nose at the table. Disgusting

I agree - totally disgusting!

[cmj1210]

Originally Posted by tomwed

I must be another grouch. I just got back from NY Pizza. We didn't finish the pie and the waitress asked "Are we going to want a box?".

Was it Jack Nicholson who went ballistic when Nurse Crachet used the word "we" in every question?

"You Guys" or "Youse Guys" from where I'm from, is like "Y'all" down south. It's a "one size fits all" expression that northerners don't even notice in all but the classiest of establishments.

Well I for one am a Northern Girl and I hate it when they say "you guys". This was not a term that anybody used in my generation. It's a generational thing. This only started about 15 yrs ago unlike our Southern counterparts who have always used the term Y'all.

[bluedog103]

Originally Posted by cmj1210

Well I for one am a Northern Girl and I hate it when they say "you guys". This was not a term that anybody used in my generation. It's a generational thing. This only started about 15 yrs ago unlike our Southern counterparts who have always used the term Y'all.

I'm from NY and I've been hearing "you guys" or "youse guys" for at least 50 years, probably more. I don't think anything of it, if fact I've used these terms for years. I had a history teacher in high school who often called the class "youse guys.

[cmj1210]

Originally Posted by graciegirl

We always tip 20 percent. Serving is hard and patient work.

Us too Gracie