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All the resturant stories in here reminded me of my own incident a little over a year ago.
Sucky Waiter - SW
J - friend
It was on my birthday and my friend suggested that we go over to the Olive Garden while she was on her lunch break. I was off work that day already so I agree and we meet up there.
Our waiter comes out after a bit and my friend (who is a vegetarian) asks him about a couple of menu options. We've been there many times but she was wanting to try something new and just checking to see if there wasn't any type of meat products in the food she was eyeing. We also told him that we wanted separate bills.
SW is starting to get a bit huffy at this point at her questions.
SW: Aren't you ready to order yet?
J: Give me just a second. *Decides on her food and orders*
I wasn't very hungry so I decided to order just a slice of cake and SW disappears with our order. And we wait....and wait....and wait...After a while our glasses are empty and there is no sign of SW. We eventually get our food and have to ask him for a refill.
Then he's gone. As it turns out, he was too busy flirting with a girl at another table to pay any attention to his other tables. He eventually comes back not with our drinks but with our bill. Our bills weren't separated and he had already ran off to flirt again. So my friend puts her card in and I put $20 to pay my bill. When the waiter finally comes back to us we tell him that we want my friends meal put on the card and mine out of the cash.
So we wait for a bit longer and he comes back with the little folder and disappears again. My $20 is gone (my cake was $5 and I had a water) and everything was put on my friend's card. Oh hell no. There was no way in hell that guy deserved a $20 tip. So my friend got up and hunted him down and made him fix the 'mistake' he made.
J: I just wanted to point out that you made a 'mistake' on our bill. The $20 was supposed to be put towards my friends meal and the change returned.
SW: Oh...I thought that was my tip.
J: Uh...no.
We both left rather angrily and my friend complained to a manager. We still have gone back since then since we haven't had a single issue with the other waitstaff but we haven't seen SW at all. For those of you who haven't eaten at the Olive Garden, they usually give you a little Andes bar after your meal. Well...when we were passing by the table he was flirting with they had an entire wine glass filled with those.
Sucky Waiter - SW
J - friend
It was on my birthday and my friend suggested that we go over to the Olive Garden while she was on her lunch break. I was off work that day already so I agree and we meet up there.
Our waiter comes out after a bit and my friend (who is a vegetarian) asks him about a couple of menu options. We've been there many times but she was wanting to try something new and just checking to see if there wasn't any type of meat products in the food she was eyeing. We also told him that we wanted separate bills.
SW is starting to get a bit huffy at this point at her questions.
SW: Aren't you ready to order yet?
J: Give me just a second. *Decides on her food and orders*
I wasn't very hungry so I decided to order just a slice of cake and SW disappears with our order. And we wait....and wait....and wait...After a while our glasses are empty and there is no sign of SW. We eventually get our food and have to ask him for a refill.
Then he's gone. As it turns out, he was too busy flirting with a girl at another table to pay any attention to his other tables. He eventually comes back not with our drinks but with our bill. Our bills weren't separated and he had already ran off to flirt again. So my friend puts her card in and I put $20 to pay my bill. When the waiter finally comes back to us we tell him that we want my friends meal put on the card and mine out of the cash.
So we wait for a bit longer and he comes back with the little folder and disappears again. My $20 is gone (my cake was $5 and I had a water) and everything was put on my friend's card. Oh hell no. There was no way in hell that guy deserved a $20 tip. So my friend got up and hunted him down and made him fix the 'mistake' he made.
J: I just wanted to point out that you made a 'mistake' on our bill. The $20 was supposed to be put towards my friends meal and the change returned.
SW: Oh...I thought that was my tip.
J: Uh...no.
We both left rather angrily and my friend complained to a manager. We still have gone back since then since we haven't had a single issue with the other waitstaff but we haven't seen SW at all. For those of you who haven't eaten at the Olive Garden, they usually give you a little Andes bar after your meal. Well...when we were passing by the table he was flirting with they had an entire wine glass filled with those.
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