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Trilby · 08-25-2006, 03:18 PM

Brooke, while I empathize mightily with how stupid the general public is (and I did wait tables for 6 years) I get a little testy when the restaurant is NOT busy and they try to seat my party at a shitty table (next to the kitchen door, next to the bathrooms, in a shitty little squeezed up area) when there are PLENTY of booths around. It's my money, after all. I'm a great tipper if I get the service that I would have provided the guest had I been the wait person.

Brooke of the Land · 08-25-2006, 03:24 PM

If, and only if the restaurant is not busy, requesting a better table is okay. I actually had a lady ask me why, when there is no one there, she always gets seated in the back of the restaurant. At the time, there were only two servers on the floor, and one was in the front and the other in the back. Of course, she didn't want to sit in either section, and had to go to three different tables before she found one she wanted. When I tried to explain to her the concept of bringing waiters on in stages, she looked at me like I had lost my mind. "Well why don't you just have them all come at the same time so that people can sit wherever they want and not have to worry about there being a waiter in that area?"

Thankfully, I don't have to work this afternoon.

08-25-2006, 03:18 PM	#1
Trilby Slattern of the Swail Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 15,654	Brooke, while I empathize mightily with how stupid the general public is (and I did wait tables for 6 years) I get a little testy when the restaurant is NOT busy and they try to seat my party at a shitty table (next to the kitchen door, next to the bathrooms, in a shitty little squeezed up area) when there are PLENTY of booths around. It's my money, after all. I'm a great tipper if I get the service that I would have provided the guest had I been the wait person. __________________ In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic. "Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her. —James Barrie Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum

08-25-2006, 03:24 PM	#2
Brooke of the Land obsequious purple and clairvoiant Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: North Texas Posts: 45	If, and only if the restaurant is not busy, requesting a better table is okay. I actually had a lady ask me why, when there is no one there, she always gets seated in the back of the restaurant. At the time, there were only two servers on the floor, and one was in the front and the other in the back. Of course, she didn't want to sit in either section, and had to go to three different tables before she found one she wanted. When I tried to explain to her the concept of bringing waiters on in stages, she looked at me like I had lost my mind. "Well why don't you just have them all come at the same time so that people can sit wherever they want and not have to worry about there being a waiter in that area?" Thankfully, I don't have to work this afternoon. __________________ "...knowing only that we're vast and combustible, shifting, mostly hidden, probably messed up, but alive and mysterious while we last."

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