Good service vs. Attractive servers

[Street Pharmacist]

Originally Posted by NomNomNom

If they work in the industry, and are good-looking - they're not single. At the restaurant I serve at, I think every lounge girl has a boyfriend, and about 90% of the girls who work the dining room are also in relationships. May as well go with the service over looks.

I had the opposite experience. All of the attractive bartenders/servers are either single or about to be.

[btimbit]

I've found it usually pretty close to 50/50.

[Flash Walken]

Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist

I had the opposite experience. All of the attractive bartenders/servers are either single or about to be.

Based on the tip?

[btimbit]

Originally Posted by Flash Walken

Based on the tip?

[Dion]

Originally Posted by Red John

Why would you be so careful about hiding your identity when your picture is already on the Internet?

This is her picture

[Red John]

Originally Posted by Springs1

No, I make more than that. Because I diet 2 days a week.

Thanks for clearing that up.

Just curious then, if you do so well why do you eat at Chili's and Red Lobster all the time? You'd probably get better service at high end restaurants and you'd learn to tell a rare steak from medium.

[topfiverecords]

Oh man, if we could only get jhunt to join the discussion. We'd have thread of the century.

[Springs1]

Originally Posted by Red John

Thanks for clearing that up.

Just curious then, if you do so well why do you eat at Chili's and Red Lobster all the time? You'd probably get better service at high end restaurants and you'd learn to tell a rare steak from medium.

No, but I rarely eat at fine dining. The times we have, it's not been good service for the most part in general. Sure at times it has, but at times it's been WORSE.

You may say it's not high end, but the prices were OUTRAGEOUS.

In 2011, my husband and I went to BR Prime(that's Beau Rivage's fine dining restaurant)

http://www.beaurivage.com/restaurant...g_brprime.aspx

Ok, so our bill is $293 or so(a bottle of wine my husband ordered was $89, which the sommelier was the only good part of our dining experience which we tipped him $10 cash). Our waiter forgot my margarita from the bar with NO apology, NO comp. He took 8- 10 minutes to get the 1st coke and 8-10 minutes to get a refill. So for almost $300, the cheapest steak was $89, we had that crappy service as if I was at Denny's or something. The manager or maître d' of the restaurant didn't even comp one coke off the bill for the crap service, especially the NO apology just is wrong. My point is, fine dining as far as prices goes and the scenery means *************ABSOLUTELY NOTHING*************. I have tipped over 30% at a Chili's even. I have had a zillion times better service even at an IHOP even.

So stop saying that I will have better service at more expensive restaurants, because it's all about *******WHO SERVES YOU if they are lazy and uncaring or not or even NICE even*****. At the donut shop/diner I worked for I still apologized for no tip at the drive-thru when I made a mistake even. I can't imagine not apologizing for a mistake for a tip. If I bump into someone on the street I say I am sorry, WHY would anyone not do that if they want your money? We tipped 12%. Not because of the outrageous prices, because of the no apology and long waits for drinks(BOTH KIND of drinks). If he would have said he was sorry for the margarita, 17% instead of 12% INSTANTLY just for being *********NICE***********. That sorry goes a HECK OF A LONG WAY. You act like you could care less, your tip will show it.

[Red Slinger]

Maybe you should learn to cook?

[btimbit]

Are you anything in real life like you are online? Maybe that's why you never have good service.

You're the type to complain just to try to get free stuff, aren't you?

[Springs1]

Originally Posted by btimbit

Are you anything in real life like you are online? Maybe that's why you never have good service.

You're the type to complain just to try to get free stuff, aren't you?

No I want PERFECT SERVICE with NO PROBLEMS or very LITTLE problems.

You don't get it's not about the money. We aren't rich, but we have money to go out to eat, so it's not about money. It's all about I don't want things to go wrong. I want PERFECT SERVICE and have had it LOTS of times during the years since late 2000 since we met. I have had lots of servers not give me problems, especially ones that we liked that we requested as to why we request them, because the 1st time we had them they gave us perfect service or at least extremely NEAR perfect service.

I don't want things to go wrong. WHO DOES?

[Coach]

Originally Posted by Springs1

I don't want things to go wrong. WHO DOES?

Nobody. But most people act like a human being when something does.

[btimbit]

So where do you draw the line between good and bad service? What's the difference maker to you?

[Dion]

Originally Posted by Springs1

No I want PERFECT SERVICE with NO PROBLEMS or very LITTLE problems.

You don't get it's not about the money. We aren't rich, but we have money to go out to eat, so it's not about money. It's all about I don't want things to go wrong. I want PERFECT SERVICE and have had it LOTS of times during the years since late 2000 since we met. I have had lots of servers not give me problems, especially ones that we liked that we requested as to why we request them, because the 1st time we had them they gave us perfect service or at least extremely NEAR perfect service.

I don't want things to go wrong. WHO DOES?

To EXPECT PERFECT service IS being UNREASONABLE.!!1!!!!11 Everybody has their good AND bad days AND sometimes make mistakes are made.!!11111!

[Dion]

Did you know that if you stand in the bathroom with a candle and say "Springs1" 3 times at midnight, a bloody credit-card sized tip chart will appear under your pillow?

[Springs1]

Originally Posted by Red Slinger

Maybe you should learn to cook?

Then it would be a lonely life just being stuck in the house. I like going out to eat, just not always the service. Even if I didn't like the service, the food is still better than anyone's home cooking. I have had some good home cooking from different parts of my family from my mom that is a very good cook to my step grandfather before he died that would cook from scratch gumbo to spaghetti, etc. I still prefer restaurant food over home cooked. Maybe it's because they use bad stuff to cook in at restaurants like LARD or SHORTENING. I don't know? I just think the food has ALWAYS tasted better than home cooked food in general. Sure, once I had at a free food event at a college I went to awesome burgers on the grill at a cook out that were better tasting than some restaurants, but who knows what kind of meat they bought. It probably wasn't anything lean and it could have been something from a place that sells wholesale items for restaurants for all I know. I have had some boiled seafood that was better than restaurants at my uncle's house, but that's about it. Most food though in general has tasted better in my opinion at restaurants and you don't have to wait hours and hours to make it or clean up the mess or anything. It's just so much better just to eat out. Even if the service isn't good, the time consuming mess of just buying all of those grocery items and then having to compare price them to save money is SOOO time consuming before even making the item. I'd rather just go out to eat and then I can just about guarantee it will come out good whereas if I am making something for the 1st time, it usually doesn't come out. So I wasted time and money to throw away food. No thanks. I am not lazy at my jobs or my house work, but cooking I am. I will at least be honest about that. I like baking, but not on top the stove stuff that's not my style, not my thing. As a teenager I remember spending 3 hours making homemade nestle tollhouse cookies cutting them, which we could only fit like 2 pans at a time I believe in the oven. I made homemade brownies, brownie cookies from scratch, etc. I just am not good nor do I like cooking on top the stove. I hate it. I hate sewing too just as most people do, that's why they are lazy and go to the mall too, because they could sew their own clothes too, but don't. So my point is, you may say I am lazy, but think about what *YOU* could do. Have you ever taken your car to a car wash at a gas station? I haven't, because I am not lazy if I do want to wash my car, I wash it by hand. If you have, same difference. So my point is, before you say I am lazy, think about things that maybe you could do yourself, but you are lazy with yourself before condemning me about not learning how to cook.

[Springs1]

Originally Posted by btimbit

So where do you draw the line between good and bad service? What's the difference maker to you?

If my server isn't nice is one. Another is if they take no effort. Another is if they are not attentive at all. Another is to lie to me about a mistake that's their fault, basically not being honest.

[Dion]

nm

[Cole436]

Originally Posted by Springs1

Then it would be a lonely life just being stuck in the house. I like going out to eat, just not always the service. Even if I didn't like the service, the food is still better than anyone's home cooking. I have had some good home cooking from different parts of my family from my mom that is a very good cook to my step grandfather before he died that would cook from scratch gumbo to spaghetti, etc. I still prefer restaurant food over home cooked. Maybe it's because they use bad stuff to cook in at restaurants like LARD or SHORTENING. I don't know? I just think the food has ALWAYS tasted better than home cooked food in general. Sure, once I had at a free food event at a college I went to awesome burgers on the grill at a cook out that were better tasting than some restaurants, but who knows what kind of meat they bought. It probably wasn't anything lean and it could have been something from a place that sells wholesale items for restaurants for all I know. I have had some boiled seafood that was better than restaurants at my uncle's house, but that's about it. Most food though in general has tasted better in my opinion at restaurants and you don't have to wait hours and hours to make it or clean up the mess or anything. It's just so much better just to eat out. Even if the service isn't good, the time consuming mess of just buying all of those grocery items and then having to compare price them to save money is SOOO time consuming before even making the item. I'd rather just go out to eat and then I can just about guarantee it will come out good whereas if I am making something for the 1st time, it usually doesn't come out. So I wasted time and money to throw away food. No thanks. I am not lazy at my jobs or my house work, but cooking I am. I will at least be honest about that. I like baking, but not on top the stove stuff that's not my style, not my thing. As a teenager I remember spending 3 hours making homemade nestle tollhouse cookies cutting them, which we could only fit like 2 pans at a time I believe in the oven. I made homemade brownies, brownie cookies from scratch, etc. I just am not good nor do I like cooking on top the stove. I hate it. I hate sewing too just as most people do, that's why they are lazy and go to the mall too, because they could sew their own clothes too, but don't. So my point is, you may say I am lazy, but think about what *YOU* could do. Have you ever taken your car to a car wash at a gas station? I haven't, because I am not lazy if I do want to wash my car, I wash it by hand. If you have, same difference. So my point is, before you say I am lazy, think about things that maybe you could do yourself, but you are lazy with yourself before condemning me about not learning how to cook.

Christ, have you ever heard of punctuation?

[Springs1]

Originally Posted by Dion

To EXPECT PERFECT service IS being UNREASONABLE.!!1!!!!11 Everybody has their good AND bad days AND sometimes make mistakes are made.!!11111!

Then it's unreasonable for them to always expect 20% or more then or even 15% then. If mistakes are made, is it because they took 100% *******EFFORT******** or just were lazy and could care less. THAT will break or make the service just that. Also, not saying they are sorry is unreasonable to expect a good tip for that. You want me to be nice to you in the tip, it goes BOTH WAYS EQUALLY! I am not being mean to you, same goes for me. You mess up, you say you are sorry. That's not so hard, is it or unreasonable, is it really?