Wednesday 14 December 2011

Server Etiquette 101

I feel like if you're going to wait tables, you kind of need to be the type of person who doesn't generally hate humanity. If you like to berate people publicly, and are OK with having an entire restaurant's worth of eyes staring at you, maybe you should go into theatre.  Seriously.

A friend and I just feasted on Veggie Bun, spring rolls, and Satay Spicy Soup at The Golden Turtle on Ossington St. The food, as always, was delicious.  But when we first arrived, a waitress was in the midst of a massive altercation with a client, who apparently ordered the wrong thing and then blamed the waitress for it.  After screaming at the top of her lungs at the customer, the waitress went off for a minute, and then came back to finish off the job by screeching "You see!  Now all the customers are looking at you!!!!".  She was right, we all were, and the entire restaurant was dead silent.  It was mortifying.

I don't care how douchy those customers were.  You don't treat a fellow human like that, unless they've gone and killed someone. It put a bad taste in my mouth, and scrumptious as the food is, I'm not sure I want to dine there anymore.  For shame.

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