I went out with 2 other couples the other night thus making 6 people. We met at a nice steak restaurant for dinner before a movie. It was dinnertime and the restaurant was about half full.
The waitress came over and took our drink order. Nothing too complicated, a few cokes, teas, and waters. She took our drink order (which wasn't very complicated) without writing anything down. When she came back in about 5 minutes to take our food order, she once again did not pull out her little pad to write the order down. Knowing these couples, and knowing that they always want their order specialized, I suggested to the waitress that she write down the order. "Oh no, I'm real good at this, you'll see!"
Well, Jim ordered first and his order would have taken almost a full pad of paper, extra salad dressing, no onions, fries on the side, medium rare, etc. etc. By the time we were half way through with our order, you could see she was already having problems as she was repeating (wrongly) back to the people whose order she had already taken. Again, I suggested that she write down the order as a disaster dinner was in progress. After I made the second comment about her writing things down, I suppose I intimidated her and she quit repeating the orders back.
When she left, we honestly were taking bets if anyone was going to get their order right. The salads came out first and only two were right. We decided to 'grin and bear it' and ate them even though they were not prepared the way we asked. When our meals came out and the steaks were not cooked the way we asked we called over our waitress.
She actually had the nerve to argue with us. We called the manager over and we explained the situation. That if she had written things down, this would not have happened. He ?comped? our meal. If waitresses believe that they command such a powerful memory, perhaps they should look for work in the 'rocket industry' instead of the 'food industry'!!
EDITED for the alphabet imparred.
The waitress came over and took our drink order. Nothing too complicated, a few cokes, teas, and waters. She took our drink order (which wasn't very complicated) without writing anything down. When she came back in about 5 minutes to take our food order, she once again did not pull out her little pad to write the order down. Knowing these couples, and knowing that they always want their order specialized, I suggested to the waitress that she write down the order. "Oh no, I'm real good at this, you'll see!"
Well, Jim ordered first and his order would have taken almost a full pad of paper, extra salad dressing, no onions, fries on the side, medium rare, etc. etc. By the time we were half way through with our order, you could see she was already having problems as she was repeating (wrongly) back to the people whose order she had already taken. Again, I suggested that she write down the order as a disaster dinner was in progress. After I made the second comment about her writing things down, I suppose I intimidated her and she quit repeating the orders back.
When she left, we honestly were taking bets if anyone was going to get their order right. The salads came out first and only two were right. We decided to 'grin and bear it' and ate them even though they were not prepared the way we asked. When our meals came out and the steaks were not cooked the way we asked we called over our waitress.
She actually had the nerve to argue with us. We called the manager over and we explained the situation. That if she had written things down, this would not have happened. He ?comped? our meal. If waitresses believe that they command such a powerful memory, perhaps they should look for work in the 'rocket industry' instead of the 'food industry'!!
EDITED for the alphabet imparred.
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