Ours was a family of seven.
Somebody from the family ordered it all.
8 ketchup only hamburgers.
2 plain hamburgers.
1 Fish sandwich.
5 small fries.
4 small colas
2 large mountain dew.
1 large cola.
We actually got the correct order 80% of the time, doing it this way, as opposed to
having each person add to the order which almost always was wrong in the end.
I am going to have to go with the restaurants on this one. I think its pretty odd that you won’t let your teenagers have refills of soda. After all, you are eating out, which is supposed to be a treat. But whatever; it’s your kids and you can do as you like. But to expect the server to know that they shouldn’t refill your teenagers glasses with soda? Or that they should ask YOU first? Nope. That’s not their job. Their job is to make sure glasses never go empty. That’s what I expect, and pretty much every other restaurant patron expects. If you don’t want your kids to have more than one glass of soda, then it is your responsibility to inform the server when you order the drinks. But I most definitely want my server refilling every glass at the table without asking. If I have to ask, or have to even think about it, then they are not doing their job properly.
I reckon their goal is to make some sort of attempt to keep their kids from joining the steadily increasing ranks of the grossly obese by filling up on 500+ calories of what’s in effect sugar water. YMMV.
One of my biggest restaurant complaints is the teeny-tiny cup of syrup they bring with your waffle or stack of pancakes.
Not every kid who drinks soda is going to join the ranks of the grossly obese. I drank soda every time we ate out; my glass was refilled repeatedly. I am not obese by any stretch of the imagination. The problem today is most kids live a sedentary lifestyle. They play video games instead of riding their bikes or some other outdoor activity. They also do not eat regular balanced meals. They eat boxed food or some other prepared meal. My mother cooked for us every single day. So eating out was the exception and not the rule. We did not drink bunches of soda at home. But on that rare occasion when we ate out? By all means drink all you like! It was a treat. We knew it and that’s part of what made the whole experience so special.
If the poster I was responding to is eating out 2-3 times a week, then I understand the rationale behind only allowing their children one caloric beverage. However, that does not change my viewpoint. I expect a server to know to fill any empty glass on the table. I do not want to ever have to ask to have my glass refilled. They do not need my permission, either. The obligation is on the customer to request something if it is abnormal, and it is abnormal to not want your glass refilled when you are eating out.
Aren’t you forgetting that its an old Thai custom that if you wish to be served quickly you MUST stand on one leg and pat your head six times while humming the Thai national anthem.
Though I expect that theres very few people who didn’t already know that.
Why can’t McDonald’s get my coffee order straight? Small coffee, milk on the side, Splenda on the side. At least 90% of the time they screw up one or more parts of it. Today I threw them a curve: Small DECAF coffee, milk on the side, Splenda on the side. The guy puts something - maybe Splenda, maybe something else, into a cup. I remind him that I wanted it on the side. He starts over. Takes the pot of regular coffee and starts pouring. I tell him to just forget about it. No apologies from him as I walk out.
Someone please tell me what was the first restaurant in the United States to list prices in their menu as “12.5” or “17.6”, so I can dropkick the head of their owner.
Stand in line, Dude, stand in line.
Where the heck did you see that?
Hey, a great new T-shirt that goes well with this thread!
BW3 charging for Ranch dressing that accompanies their wings.
You see it all over. It appears, at least to me, to be coming more and more common.
ETA - and it’s stupid.
There is a restaurant/pub here that lists prices as 7 1/2, 8 3/4, 2 1/4, etc. I think that’s even more annoying, and given the horrible lack of math skills the average person has, maybe even confusing.
What’s an IOD?
Idiot on duty? Just a WAG.
Let’s see. Let me count the ways.
Six of us for dinner. The waiter showed up and started taking orders pretty much randomly, not going around the table in any sort of logical order. He started with me. My order started with “To drink, I’ll have…” Nope, he never did the pre-order drinks. Just “What can I get for you?” In fact, he only ended up asking half of us if we wanted anything to drink. As it turned out, only two of us did. I got mine just fine. The other person asked for a Coke. Did she get it? Nope, but a ginger ale was delivered to a completely different guest (or is that quest?) who didn’t order a drink at all. It took a good long while to get it sorted out.
He was also really haphazard in who he asked wanted rice.
Another quest, er, guest, was suffering from the sniffles, and asked the waiter for some paper napkins. Three times. It took about 30 minutes for that to happen.
A good while later, my food arrived. OK, it wasn’t actually my food. I think it belonged to a different table. I guess it was just a preview. “Here’s what you should have ordered.” On retrospect, I should have taken it. I was so hungry at that point I would have eaten anything.
A little while later, I actually got what I asked for. I think. Two of us ordered something different, but similar. Fish for both of us. We had to ask which dish he was setting in front of me. He didn’t know. He had to go back to the kitchen to ask exactly what it was he was serving.
In fact there was confusion about where all five dishes were to go. For instance, one guest ordered drunken noodles. I can’t quite remember what the waiter called it, but I think it came out “goat horn banana swamp.”
Yes, I said five dishes. Six quests, er, guests. One guy went unserved. It took a good long while to even find the waiter to let him know there was a problem. Most of us were finished eating before this guy even got his meal.
We asked for two separate checks. Guess what we got?
There was much more that I can’t even remember. It was a flurry of incompetence. It was rather impressive I must say.
The waiter has a promising future in filing. Except I doubt his ability to alphabetize.
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Am I the only one who finds it hilarious that the shirt sizes go up to 5X?! That’s a damned big shirt…