Originally Posted by Rain Man (Post 9368807)

Was it a Cheesecake Factory? I bet it was Cheesecake Factory.

Originally Posted by Bump (Post 9368814)

similar concept, only with 100+ beers on tap.

Originally Posted by GoWalrus (Post 9368830)

I can't wait until everyone in the food service industry is replaced by ****ing robots.

You're all annoying ****s.

Originally Posted by GoWalrus (Post 9368830)

I can't wait until everyone in the food service industry is replaced by ****ing robots.

You're all annoying ****s.

Originally Posted by Peyton's Princess (Post 9368701)

and Flop...I used to get $5 from a "ghetto" table and they'd make sure to give it to me and look me in the eye and thank me and I was so polite back to them it was sickening...I knew they weren't educated in "proper tipping" but they truly thought they were giving me a good tip and truly appreciated my service so who am I to not appreciate them appreciating me?

I always made enough money...I didn't feel the need to typecast my tables. Some people just don't know the proper etiquette...it is what it is. An asshole is an asshole, though. I loved when people would come in and just be angry at the world from the get go...why does those miserable people even want to go out? Or breathe?

Originally Posted by Rain Man (Post 9368916)

The concept has already been proven with fast food restaurants. The server can be replaced at lower cost with a countertop. However, the more money you have available to spend on dinner, the less willing you are to hunt and gather.

Originally Posted by Peyton's Princess (Post 9368706)

my last full time waiter job (I always waited, only bartended part time because I made SO MUCH more money waiting and I was WAY BETTER at it than bartending where chit chat is so much more a part of your job)...

I was 25-26 and I worked with either 18 or 19 year olds or 40+ washouts who hated life...

I dug SO DEEP into them when they'd piss me off and I'd always remind them of how competent I was and how I was glad I was simply an underachiever and not a complete dipshit waste of life who can't handle a friggin' waiter job while telling them I'm sure they'll have great luck in life etc. etc. etc.

I'd dig into the incompetent management staff as well...I'd tell them how terribly they ran the restaurant and how I wasn't paid to run everyone's ****ing food so if they wanted me to run everyone's food like I do every ****ing night they could at least hire hotter, younger girls for me to break down emotionally and eventually try to bang (least they could do)

the only people I would NEVER piss off were the cooks...I learned all the dirty spanish in the world to keep them on my side so they'd always hook me up when in need...that's the 2nd thing I do at a new restaurant (learn the computer first, win over the mexicans second)

looking back at my restaurant career...the only things that ever pissed me off were the incompetent people I worked with...

but I also made SO MANY life long friends over the course of 8 years...I would never trade my restaurant experience for anything...it was such a fantastic learning experience for me.

Originally Posted by Bump (Post 9368711)

lol, now I'm pretty sure you are lying about ever waiting tables. LOL

I GUARANTEE that if you polled every waiter in America, 99% of them will vote Sunday as the day they hate working the most.

Sundays is an unspoken word at a lot of restaurants, you don't say the word Sunday. Because it's always a cluster **** and it's always a bunch of assholes and this goes for every restaurant I've worked in. You are full of shit dude.

Originally Posted by Rain Man (Post 9368732)

Have you ever checked out cruise ship reviews? A misplaced origami towel will ruin the whole trip. It's scary.

When I did my Alaska trip back in 2010, I came back from Anchorage to Vancouver on a cruise ship. It was inexpensive and much nicer than flying. I didn't have dress clothes so I didn't attend the "formal dinners", but a couple at my table apparently flew into a wild rage at an incident at one of the dinners. I was told later by another person at the table that there was yelling and anguish and in the end the couple walked out of the dining room never to return. The other people at the table were mortified to be sitting there while it was going on.

The incident? When they brought the dinners, they accidentally set the man's entree in front of the woman, and vice versa. When they complained, the waiter picked up the two plates and switched them, and they thought he should have thrown the food away and brought two new entrees.

Originally Posted by Peyton's Princess (Post 9368780)

I never ran into anything like that...most likely because the restaurants I worked at generally expected their food to be sort of "auctioned" off in big groups. I didn't like doing that and I always had a great waiter memory so I usually put the plates where they belonged but the servers who "auctioned" never got yelled at or anything. Most people were just ****ing happy there food had arrived and were ready to eat!

I learned though...some people are just ridiculous. Nothing you can do but laugh. I never really took offense to anything I always just lived by the "meh, at least I don't have to wake up and be them!" mantra.