Being Glued To The Phone
“Please do not be glued to your phone, especially if you're in a large party. I work in a tapas restaurant, which means everyone orders small plates to share. We recently had a table of ten do this, ignoring runners and servers that were bringing their food, causing the food to be returned or eaten by different table members, and so the person who ordered the food would finally look up from their phone and start complaining that they never received the food they ordered. Of course, the other table members neglected to tell them they had received it and eaten it. Why? Because THEY were now on their phones. They nearly made a server cry with rude comments about her intelligence and figure (“that skinny b*tch probably ate them, she needs to put on weight before her hips cut me”) is just one thing I heard. It's worth mentioning that these were all morbidly obese people.”
#19 Some restaurants have sh&tty tables that you have to refuse. I have seen tables at restaurants between the entry and exit doors of the kitchen.
It is also reasonable to not want to sit next to a loud party of 20 in a restaurant.
Well, if they seat you at at table that's dirty, you can just leave and not go back. But almost no place does that.
And probably no one wants to be seated next to a noisy table. They determine seating due to various reasons.
I usually whistle, that seems to get their attention
If closing time is 10pm than post last orders, or last seating time at an appropriate earlier time based on your menue..... Just stop whining
People are not coming there to follow your house rules - except touching ofcourse.
#21 If you depend on tips to get by your employer is doing it wrong. You should be paid enough to get by. Any civilized culture will have decent payment for the job itself (Yes, I'm looking at you, 'Murica). Then tips are added *if* you go above and beyond the minimum requirement to actually do your job.
#21 - Not all the time...some need to work... so they accept whatever appears ... later they change to something better. If that person stays in the same place for a long time, yes, they are not evolving they are accepting their sh#t life... and that's wrong and then makes no sense to complain about tips, but you will never know if they are the @$$holes or the temporary whos is going to be something better in the future. Only if you go to the same place to much ... In the end, it is complex.
In Brazil there was a law the obligates you to pay 10% of the bill as a tip. This law was revoked, but most of the restaurants still charges and let the consumers decide, but we know that most of these people needs these tips ... it is a sad situation because we all know that in the end is the owner who is not paying the right salary...