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- Thread starter Jazzy
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A few years ago we were on a trip and stopped at a Cracker Barrel along I-95.
I'm not even sure which state we were in, it may have been in one of the Carolinas.
Anyway, the service was so pathetic, I went to the waitress station and refilled our coffee. Twice. While we were waiting on our food.
They only noticed the second time.
Finally the manager came by and we told him that it had been over twenty minutes and there was no sign of our meals.
He went to check on it.
As far as we know, he's still checking.
We went to the Denny's just down the road and had a good meal at a decent price.
I'm not even sure which state we were in, it may have been in one of the Carolinas.
Anyway, the service was so pathetic, I went to the waitress station and refilled our coffee. Twice. While we were waiting on our food.
They only noticed the second time.
Finally the manager came by and we told him that it had been over twenty minutes and there was no sign of our meals.
He went to check on it.
As far as we know, he's still checking.
We went to the Denny's just down the road and had a good meal at a decent price.
Smooth said:National Coney Island. Not because of the food, but because of one of their "policies".
I learned that when a table walks out without paying their bill, NCI makes the waitress for that table PAY THE BILL out of their own pocket.
Obviously this is completely illegal. They have accused, tried, convicted and imposed a punishment on a person without due process. When I learned this, I drove to every NCI in the area that I could find and told several waitresses at each place how and why this was illegal. 2 of them walked off the job right then and there.
It sucked, too, because it was a convenient place for me, and it is open 24/7. Oh well!!!
I'm lucky that the restaurant that I currently work at only writes you up for this. Requiring the server to pay for what the guest doesn't is actually a pretty common practice, and it's pretty unfortunate.
Mr. Kringle said:Usually its going to be unpleasant whenever someone sits me somewhere I don't want to sit and gives me attitude when I asked to be seated over there *points to booth*
Hosting ain't as easy as it looks. I used to be one, and I can't speak for all hosts because some do suck, but I know I, at the very least, did try my best to make things as comfortable for guests as possible. The problem is that you have to seat guests according to a set rotation/system to prevent servers from getting overwhelmed with too many tables being sat at once, which makes it a little trickier, particularly when fewer servers are on the floor. There is a lot that ends up needing to be taken into account, especially on a busier night.
Giving an attitude towards the customer about it is not right under any circumstance, however.
I can understand what they have to go through, but if a restaurant has booths, I'd rather sit there. Just an irrational preference of mine. If I get sat at a table and there's a booth open, I am going to move. I am the one spending my hard earned cash to have a nice dining experience there after all.
DarkFury said:
That's awful!!
Smooth said:
I agree. It's convenient for the restaurant not to have to take responsibility for it. I suppose I can understand if the server has been in the back eating for 15 minutes because that's neglectful of the job, but if the server is in fact busy running food out to another table and someone takes off without paying their bill, the server should not be held responsible. My general manager generally handles these situations on a case by case level, but the company policy is to issue a write-up every time, so the managers under him don't always handle these situations as gracefully.
Honestly, I could go on and on about the problems of sit-down restaurants. In my state, another law that commonly gets ignored by restaurants is that 85% of your time as a server is required to be spent directly doing work that relates to you earning tips. Luckily, if you've kept up with your job throughout the shift, this is fairly easy where I work, but there are restaurants that will require servers to run dishes in the back well after they've been removed from the floor, all while being paid $2.13/hour. (Speaking of $2.13/hour, many restaurants also refuse to do tip-makeup, despite the laws that require it. Restaurants get away with breaking laws all the time. )
KyngzIndeyen said:Well, it's edible, at leastSulli said:
Probably my worst experience was when my dad wanted to take the family out to Burger King, only to fined that it was extremely busy, so we had to queue in the drive-thru for half an hour or more. By the time we finally got to the front of the queue, the vendor said he/she was unable to take our order, apologised, and invited us to join the back of the queue....
Yeah, my dad refused to eat at Burger King for years afterwards.
Burger King is more popular now, compared to McDonald's....And we find that it's much faster, if we go in make an order to go......That's what we do when there's a line up in the Drive Through....
I always get decent food at Burger King, but they don't seem popular in my area anymore. I'm surprised they are still around considering there is hardly anyone inside every time I walk in.
The whopper isn't bad for the price though.
The whopper isn't bad for the price though.
Darth-Apple said:
Well in our town, it's the most popular place, and is always busy.....And we have Dairy Queen (2 one on the North side of town, and the other on the East side of town), McDonald's, Taco John's, Runza, and Sonic.....Along with 3 Pizza Places and other places to eat.....Small town big on food......
Ellie1142545 said:
Ah, makes sense. I honestly don't think Burger King is a bad place. It's just horribly unpopular here. I pass probably about 200 restaurants on the way to work, so there is definitely a bit of competition in my city.
