Man, I don't even feel comfortable grabbing my own plate at a buffet.
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The whole ritual of being served at a restaurant makes me queasy. But I'd never dare interfere in it. Never!
Also, when the food takes long to arrive it's a good sign: they took time to prepare it.
Or it sat in the window too long waiting for a runner and now it’s cold (sadly, I’ve had this happen more often than it simply taking a while to be prepared).
I didn't consider that. BF's behavior actually makes sense in that case. I guess I never eat at restaurants that are that full. But seeing OOP's picture, neither do they.
I don’t really approve of their behavior because it’s sending “you don’t know how to do your job” vibes among other things. They could’ve just signaled to their server and asked for a status update.
I know as a programmer, I’d be pretty annoyed if someone shoved my chair out of the way to start typing the code themselves. No mechanic is going to be happy about a customer grabbing tools and doing their own work.
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Now we have beige flags? Soon there'll be burnt umber, fuscia, striped, herringbone, and eventually they'll have gone to plaid.
My Chilean flag is that I enjoy back scratches.
My Chilean flag is that
digo weon muchissima mas que los otros español hablantes.
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I'm waiting for the swiss flag. It's a huge plus
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The redness of this flag is 100% dependent on his demeanor, it could easily go either way. If I'm working and a customer volunteers to help me do my job in a manner that is clearly not hostile or insulting I'd call that a good thing.
I can't think of any way doing this regularly could be a good thing.
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This would freak me the fuck out. Let me do my job, please and thank you. You don't work here.
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Do you work in the hospitality industry?
Not currently, but I worked front and back of house for several years at sit-down restaurants, plus fast food back in high school. If someone volunteers to make my job easier and isn't a jerk about it I don't see any reason to be upset, seems pretty simple.
Untrained Customers 'helping' sounds like an imsurance liability nightmare.
I wouldn't trust a customer to have clean enough hands to roll flatware. Which would be more helpful than crowding the pickup window or drinks booth with strangers.
Folks who want counter service better skip table service places.
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There's literally no way for someone to do this that's not hostile and insulting.
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He can be used as excuse for some shitty manager to fire someone "look how slow you are, the client had to come itself to take the plate. Don't bother coming back tomorrow"
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Imagine his partner is in labour for hours. He gets impatient and just grabs a baby from the nursery and brings it to her with that smile. Like I’m hundred percent sure that if he does this regularly he has grabbed plates that were meant for other tables.
He gets impatient and just grabs a baby from the nursery
You don't want to know how often that really happened!
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That's actually annoying as fuck.
How's his patience behind the wheel of a car?
Because there's no such a thing as unskilled labor, some people believe that you can wait tables without training, and that people duck as waiters.
Plus they clearly hate the job so it makes me feel as if they are making me a favor.
That said, probably the job pays terribly and that's the reason why this happened in the first place.
I want competent waiters with competent salaries.
Friend of mine is a waiter who says things like “give me that two dollar minimum wage any day with tips.“ Says he makes more than anybody else in the restaurant except the owner. But again, this is skilled labor as you say, I couldn’t just go in and be the same caliber with no experience, he’s been doing this decades.
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Ask him if he wants to come back to the kitchen and wash his own dishes while he's at it.
Yeah this is unacceptable behavior. That said I think this is something that ought to be just explained to him because he might legitimately be a total dumbass.
That said I wish more restaurants were like Fuddruckers or Firehouse Subs and just let me grab my food from the counter myself once it was done. I don't really want to pay someone to carry my food & drinks to me and be possibly insincerely nice to me to increase their tip or whatever.
To some people everything is a red flag. Bro is just hungry and helpful
Once maybe twice, sure. Enough times for someone to make a post about it? I also wouldn't say it's a red flag but it's definitely weird.
Yeah, also:
“Helps” as in asks the waitress if he can help when she brings the first dish? Ok, weird but ok.
“Helps” as in walks up to the pass and looks for their order to grab it when the waitress takes the minute or two to make their rounds? Absolute “the rules don’t apply to me” burning red flag.
Really sends the message to the server "you aren't doing your job the way I like it, so I'm going to do it for you."
It's very presumptuous to interfere in someone's professional operations, and assume you know what's going on. What if you pick up someone else's order by mistake? Then the kitchen has to remake the whole thing because now it's contaminated. Or if you take the food but leave the "ticket" there and the staff and kitchen get mixed up about what's gone out and what hasn't.
Totally messing up the process and shows zero respect for the people doing their jobs.
Sit your ass down and let the staff do what they do. The other customers are all getting their food no problem, and so will you.
Traditionally, the word professional is usually reserved for someone who sits behind a desk, engaged in a "career" job. The word has changed but it was previously reserved for the careers you can only get after university, a "learned" profession.
I say that because many think of waiters as a lesser profession, not a skilled job.
One of my favourite restaurants closed recently but the staff there were definitely talented and had learned all the right communication with each other and patrons, they could answer any questions and knew how to avoid common grievances.
You can be skilled at anything, and I'm constantly amazed by the little things people do to make others have a good time.
Either this guys an impatient asshole or they made this up. Either way it's not cute, it's fucking annoying and is just a little control freak energy. Her not being able to work out its control freak energy means he's probably with the right person.
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Helpful what. That's super weird and annoying and nothing else. He's not any faster carrying two plates to their table than a server, and how can they trust him to not fuck it up, grab the wrong stuff, touch other guests' plates...
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