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Restaurant Pet Peeves
>Menu items have le funny names that make you feel like a retard ordering them
>The wait staff sings happy birthday to people loud enough for everyone in the building to hear
>Soup of the day isn't on a menu or sign anywhere
>Waitress just assumes you know what sodas are "coke products"
>Soup served in some tiny cup

>> No.16719416

>>16719319
You don't sound like a very fun guy.

You forgot the important service problems.

-Serving all dishes at once or badly timed.
-Only have "red wine", "white wine" as the 2 wine options.
-wine served at improper temperature.
-Servers don't yield to you when walking to bathroom.
-Napkin not folded neatly when returning from bathroom.
-food served too hot.
-not replacing silverware after courses.

>> No.16719432

>Finish ordering, hand menus to waiter
>Waiter comes back 10 minutes later without a menu and tells you they're out of what you ordered
>Now have to come up with a new order without a menu and without rehearsing the interaction as the waiter is staring at you waiting

>> No.16719436

>>16719432
That's just a 1% deduction off tip. Why not just ask for a menu?

>> No.16719481

>menu is replaced with a QR code
Insta-walk out

>> No.16719493

>makes you tip before your order
Thanks for the don't-spit-in-my food tax

>> No.16719622

>>16719481
I think some states made them do that at least for a while

>> No.16719635

>they let frogposters enter the building

>> No.16719715

>Menu says sando instead of sandwich.

>> No.16719767

>>16719319
>Waitress just assumes you know what sodas are "coke products"
I don't even drink pop and I know the different coke/pepsi products

>> No.16719809

>>16719319
>The wait staff sings happy birthday to people loud enough for everyone in the building to hear
I worked at a place for a year where the floor manager (big fat black dude) would do the loudest WHOOOOOO as he brought out the cake or whatever dessert with a giant ass sparkler on it. Then we'd happy birthday whoever after they got over their fright from this guy yelling at the top of his lungs as basically indoor fireworks went off.

>> No.16719840

>>16719416
I've only been to one place that did 9/10 things on your list.

It was really surprising also it was a near empty steak house in the middle of. Nowhere Tennessee.

>> No.16719886

>they allow nonvaccinated people to eat inside

>> No.16719888

>>16719886
*nonwhite

>> No.16719900
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>>16719319
>>Menu items have le funny names that make you feel like a retard ordering them
i always check the online menu of places before even going, just to avoid this shit.
>picrel, the latest embarrassment i narrowly avoided
fucking gastropub faggotry, peruse the menu at your own peril.

>> No.16719910

>>16719319
When they have those touch screen tablets to check out and the waitress watches you as your check out, also half them try and hold the fucking tablet while you are trying to read the check for mistakes and do the math for the tip in your head.

I've finally gotten so pissed with it because they try and rush you and put you on the spot with those tip buttons that start at 25% and go to like 36% it's gotten to the point where I will demand a printed papper check and give them no tip now if they try and make me pay with one of those.

And it's always the shitty servers that do this and they know what they are doing.
One time me and my girlfriend were at the bar she got hammered I told the waitress I was ready for the check, she was slow and shitty all night so I knew I would have time to take a piss. I was gone 2 minutes and this pill head cunt is all ready over there with my plastered girlfriend with one of those fucking tablets,
I get there just as my girlfriend finished paying and I told the server why did you give that to her I said I was paying, she made up some bullshit about my girlfriend wanting to pay. Then I asked her why she had a tablet and not a paper check because i have been here multiple times before and was here just two weeks ago and never payed on a tablet before, She said oh well you know some servers like to use them some don't then did an awkward laugh and tried to walk away as she said have a good night. I asked her where my receipt was and she said oh yeah right sure uh you wanted a copy? it prints in the back let me go get it for you.

She disappears for another 15 minutes. I asked my girlfriend how much she tipped and she says I don't know I just clicked the first button on the screen. waitress finally comes back with the receipt and there was two extra drinks on it and the first button on the tablet was a 26% tip this junky bitch ambushed my drunk girlfriend and shook her down for a fucking 26% tip I have not been back since

>> No.16719922

Honestly I drink a lot of water. I think if I ran a restaurant I'd just leave a carafe or pitcher of water at the table but at least they're usually somewhat attentive on refills.

Bars on the other hand it is a peeve for me when I ask for some water and it comes in like an 6 ounce glass that's 50% ice. I'm just going to as for a refill and bother you from browsing you cellphone 15 minutes later. You can't spare one of your 400 16 ounce Sierra Nevada glasses?

>> No.16719939

>>16719900
This doesn't bother me really. The non specialized items have standard names. Makes more sense than ordering the confit chicken waldorf solid sandwich with aioli selleri walnuts grapes apple and creme

>> No.16719940

>>16719900
Is this a menu originally written in another language that was translated and all new puns created for English?

>> No.16719945

>>16719910
I worked at a place that used those and also had you pay up front. It was annoying as I felt I was forcing someone to tip when they hadn't even gotten their food or anything yet.

>> No.16719972
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>>16719939
then call it the "confit slider" or some shit and have the details under it,
if they have to use dumbass names, at least number their menus.
>>16719940
it is, the original danish puns were not much better from what i recall, just checked and theyve updated the menu, with more awful puns, and english names mixed in, and thats not even touching on the obvious misspellings.
and fuck these prices, 1 dollar is about 6 kroner.
god i hate gastropubs

>> No.16719973

>>16719945
Wow man that sucks any place that makes me tip before I actually get service I will not tip or tip the minimum wage

>> No.16719988

>>16719972
That's so much work to update the weird puns in multiple languages, so sad

>> No.16719991
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>>16719972
aaand for the english menu they just gave up on the puns, and instead directly translated

>> No.16720011

>>16719945
oof. we didn't do that. it was free regardless of if they lets us know ahead of time and brought in their own birthday cake, or if they got a slice or cake platter from our dessert menu, either way.

>> No.16720092

>>16719886
Yeah, fuck smallpox carriers. They shouldn't even be allowed in the country.

>> No.16720171

>>16719991
Its not the best but its not the worst either. If I were ordering I'd just say "can I have the normandy sliders' the veggie burger/slider, the beefcake/ultimate beefcake or the doublestack/triplestack.

Its not like the dishes are 'Hermione's favourite oat porridge' or 'weeby-jeeby-heeby-jeeby fruit stack'. The names are mostly short and easily identifiable.