Hey all,
IT HAS FINALLY HAPPENED. In my town, there's a Mexican restaurant called Mexico Tipico (which is Mexican for HOLY F**KIN SH*T, THAT IS SOME TASTY MEXICAN!). Anyway..... I have been eating there for about 5 years now, and have eaten there quite regularly and frequently for about 3. --And for the 3 years that I have done it regularly, it's always the same. Non-smoking, please. Coke. --And can we get an order of cheese dip? With jalepenos. I'll have #47 (pollo fundido). No salad, beans instead.
I have ALWAYS WONDERED if they recognize me as well as I recognize them. I know each server, their proficiency with English, how they will bring the drinks out, which cooks are usually cooking when certain wait staff are out, all that stuff. Seems to me, after a while, they shouldn't even have to ask. I would just walk in, and they would bring out my stuff.
WELL!!! Monday night, Heather and I walked in, and the guy says... "Smoking or n.... NON SMOKING! NON SMOKING!", he says affirmatively and emphatically with a smile, and immediately takes us to a table. Then, without placing menus on our table, he looks at me and says "Coke." --Looks at Heather and says "Sweet tea?" (Which would have been right, except she is cutting back on sugar, so it was unsweet this time.) "You ready to order?" he asks? BIG SMILES on our faces, having not had a menu at all, HE KNEW. I said, "YEAH! You think you got it?" He smiled really big and said... "nummmberrrrrrr....no, no...." and kinda laughed it off. When I said 47, he half-shouted it back GLEEFULLY at the same time, and said "I was afraid to say it! 47! 47! Yep!" And when I started to say "No salad..." He said "You just want beans and rice." Then he looked at Heather and correctly assumed she would be having the same. He was just grinning EAR TO EAR!! And when he brought out our drinks, they were in BIG, FROSTY MUGS, which happens there occasionally, but never with this particular server (Dan, it's Pedro, the guy who seems to own the place...kinda short). It was like we were having some kind of celebration! And the food was quicker, hotter, and bigger servings than usual! I think I have FINALLY crossed over into that valued regular customer category! I've always dreamt of being a "right this way....the usual?" customer, and I am HONORED that it's at Mexico Tipico! YEAH.
Ricky
DesignDawg
IT HAS FINALLY HAPPENED. In my town, there's a Mexican restaurant called Mexico Tipico (which is Mexican for HOLY F**KIN SH*T, THAT IS SOME TASTY MEXICAN!). Anyway..... I have been eating there for about 5 years now, and have eaten there quite regularly and frequently for about 3. --And for the 3 years that I have done it regularly, it's always the same. Non-smoking, please. Coke. --And can we get an order of cheese dip? With jalepenos. I'll have #47 (pollo fundido). No salad, beans instead.
I have ALWAYS WONDERED if they recognize me as well as I recognize them. I know each server, their proficiency with English, how they will bring the drinks out, which cooks are usually cooking when certain wait staff are out, all that stuff. Seems to me, after a while, they shouldn't even have to ask. I would just walk in, and they would bring out my stuff.
WELL!!! Monday night, Heather and I walked in, and the guy says... "Smoking or n.... NON SMOKING! NON SMOKING!", he says affirmatively and emphatically with a smile, and immediately takes us to a table. Then, without placing menus on our table, he looks at me and says "Coke." --Looks at Heather and says "Sweet tea?" (Which would have been right, except she is cutting back on sugar, so it was unsweet this time.) "You ready to order?" he asks? BIG SMILES on our faces, having not had a menu at all, HE KNEW. I said, "YEAH! You think you got it?" He smiled really big and said... "nummmberrrrrrr....no, no...." and kinda laughed it off. When I said 47, he half-shouted it back GLEEFULLY at the same time, and said "I was afraid to say it! 47! 47! Yep!" And when I started to say "No salad..." He said "You just want beans and rice." Then he looked at Heather and correctly assumed she would be having the same. He was just grinning EAR TO EAR!! And when he brought out our drinks, they were in BIG, FROSTY MUGS, which happens there occasionally, but never with this particular server (Dan, it's Pedro, the guy who seems to own the place...kinda short). It was like we were having some kind of celebration! And the food was quicker, hotter, and bigger servings than usual! I think I have FINALLY crossed over into that valued regular customer category! I've always dreamt of being a "right this way....the usual?" customer, and I am HONORED that it's at Mexico Tipico! YEAH.
Ricky
DesignDawg
Congrats on making it to the 'other side'!
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