Waitresses who try and memorize your order

[Gothgar]

Originally posted by: OdiN
I wouldn't leave a tip at all after that fiasco.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: Raizinman
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.

You should have shut the fuck up and let her do her job...chances are with your whiney baby like banter you screwed her up.

 

[PlasmaBomb]

Waitresses always get my orders wrong. It's almost a running joke now...

[PB] I would like a large cheese pizza.
[Waitress] OK would you like a drink
[PB] I will have a diet coke
[Waitress] OK anything else
[PB] No thank you.

-------

[Waitress] Here is you drink

----
[Waitress] And here is you medium Hawaiian pizza
[PB]

It hasn't happened recently, though it's mainly been waiters and they have written everything down

 

[PlasmaBomb]

Originally posted by: biggestmuff
so, how much did you tip her?

I'm guessing nothing since the meal was free...

 

[Joemonkey]

There's a waiter at O'Charley's in my hometown, big old guy, he makes it a show. First guy orders, he claps his hands together and repeats it. next person orders, repeats theirs then the previous person's. Does this for everyone at the table, makes for a half-ass interesting show, and the 2 times he's waited on our parties I think he's only forgotten something like an extra cup of ranch dressing.

 

[Coca Cola]

I guess she saw the movie Waiting... @3:33, the flick is hilarious if you haven't seen it.

 

[cubby1223]

There is no point to memorizing orders. Nobody is impressed when the order is right, and everyone is pissed off when the order is wrong. Actually, even when the order is right, the customers are worrying the whole time waiting for their order. Memorizing orders is a lose-lose situation.

 

[mrSHEiK124]

Originally posted by: PlasmaBomb
Waitresses always get my orders wrong. It's almost a running joke now...

[PB] I would like a large cheese pizza.
[Waitress] OK would you like a drink
[PB] I will have a diet coke
[Waitress] OK anything else
[PB] No thank you.

-------

[Waitress] Here is you drink

----
[Waitress] And here is you medium Hawaiian pizza
[PB]

It hasn't happened recently, though it's mainly been waiters and they have written everything down

For some reason, that made me laugh my ass off, AND made my day. Thank you :laugh:

 

[Deeko]

My guess is she normally gets it right. Oh well. You got a free meal out of it, quit yer bitching.

 

[E equals MC2]

I don't give two shit if the waitor/tress memorizes the order or write them down. All I care is my food and overall service being provided properly.

If you memorize then forget, then you obvious should write the fuck down.

 

[oogabooga]

which steakhouse and what's her name? I could go for a free steak.

 

[nutxo]

Originally posted by: Raizinman
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.

Yeah, sizzler sucks

 

[IGBT]

..prob.a dope huffer.

 

[Tim]

Originally posted by: RagingBITCH
Your 20th post and you complain about this crap?

Your 14706th post and you complain about this post?

 

[spacejamz]

Originally posted by: nutxo

Originally posted by: Raizinman
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.

Yeah, sizzler sucks

isn't golden corral a buffet???

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: spacejamz

Originally posted by: nutxo

Originally posted by: Raizinman
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.

Yeah, sizzler sucks

isn't golden corral a buffet???

yeap. i hae 3 free buffet things sitting on my desk now. We went last week about 1.5 hours before closeing. they then shut down half the buffet and the ham was out since 4pm (it was like 7:30).

the service sucked and the fact half the buffet was closed pissed us off. so we complained and got 3 free guest pass's.

yumm.

 

[Homerboy]

I have no idea where you went for dinner, but you do realize that at a truly "nice" restaurant, the wait staff does not use a notepad at all.

 

[Schfifty Five]

Originally posted by: Xavier434

Originally posted by: Schfifty Five

Originally posted by: Xavier434
I'm gonna chalk this one up under the, "Who cares. Shit happens." list.

It shouldn't have happened though. I'd be pissed about it as well and leave a really small tip.

A lot of things in life "shouldn't" happen and people do things sometimes which are not 100% optimized for efficiency , but we are all human and that's life. I guess when I read threads like this it makes me believe that the OP is making a mountain out of a mole hill. Life is much better just to shrug this kind of stuff off and limit your worries and frustrations to more important matters. I'm not saying I would tip well after it happens to me, but to make a thread about it in frustration is just stupid and I believe it reflects upon one's personality as being the type that complains too much about everything.

While I agree that a lot of threads created here are very trivial and stupid, OP's rant is different. The difference is that he specifically told the waitress 2x to write things down or things would not be correct in their order, yet the waitress ignores that request 2x and what happens?...the order got messed up.

 

[yhelothar]

Originally posted by: Schfifty Five

Originally posted by: Xavier434

Originally posted by: Schfifty Five

Originally posted by: Xavier434
I'm gonna chalk this one up under the, "Who cares. Shit happens." list.

It shouldn't have happened though. I'd be pissed about it as well and leave a really small tip.

A lot of things in life "shouldn't" happen and people do things sometimes which are not 100% optimized for efficiency , but we are all human and that's life. I guess when I read threads like this it makes me believe that the OP is making a mountain out of a mole hill. Life is much better just to shrug this kind of stuff off and limit your worries and frustrations to more important matters. I'm not saying I would tip well after it happens to me, but to make a thread about it in frustration is just stupid and I believe it reflects upon one's personality as being the type that complains too much about everything.

While I agree that a lot of threads created here are very trivial and stupid, OP's rant is different. The difference is that he specifically told the waitress 2x to write things down or things would not be correct in their order, yet the waitress ignores that request 2x and what happens?...the order got messed up.

Don't even bother. This is ATOT, playing devils advocate is pretty much a given.

 

[ObiDon]

Originally posted by: Xavier434

Originally posted by: Schfifty Five

Originally posted by: Xavier434
I'm gonna chalk this one up under the, "Who cares. Shit happens." list.

It shouldn't have happened though. I'd be pissed about it as well and leave a really small tip.

A lot of things in life "shouldn't" happen and people do things sometimes which are not 100% optimized for efficiency , but we are all human and that's life.

maybe. but, when you're a paying customer, "shit" shouldn't happen. especially when it could have been avoided with some quick note-taking.

 

[feralkid]

Originally posted by: Raizinman
I went out with 2 other couples the other night thus making 6 people.

That's only 5 people.

 

[gorcorps]

Originally posted by: spacejamz

the proper title is 'server'. the words 'waiter' and 'waitress' went out awhile back (unless you live in podunk USA)...probably around the same time that 'christmas' parties became 'holiday' parties...

i learned this when a girl I used to date worked at Bennigans...

My sister works at TGI Fridays. It's still waiter/waitress. I believe the term used to describe this girl would be: PLUM-FUCK-RETARDED

 

[ChaoZ]

Originally posted by: feralkid

Originally posted by: Raizinman
I went out with 2 other couples the other night thus making 6 people.

That's only 5 people.

...It's 6.

 

[feralkid]

Originally posted by: ChaoZ

Originally posted by: feralkid

Originally posted by: Raizinman
I went out with 2 other couples the other night thus making 6 people.

That's only 5 people.

...It's 6.

No, it's 5.

"I" means one person.

 

[ObiDon]

Originally posted by: feralkid

Originally posted by: ChaoZ

Originally posted by: feralkid

Originally posted by: Raizinman
I went out with 2 other couples the other night thus making 6 people.

That's only 5 people.

...It's 6.

No, it's 5.

"I" means one person.

when he says "i went out with 2 other couples..." that implies that he is also part of a couple

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