Dinner at the Olive Garden is a quintessential American experience. It’s the same everywhere, and I think that’s beautiful. It’s always the same rustic, dated Italian decor, the same long wait for a table, and the same ecstatic delight when the first hot breadstick hits your mouth. Whether you’re in Pacoima or Philadelphia, when you’re …
Seguir leyendo 25+ Olive Garden Memes That Will Fill up on Unlimited Breadsticks
Categoría:restaurants
‘Some days we aren’t here at all’: Small business’ unpredictable hours angers time-keepers of the internet
I wish we could return to a more rough-and-tumble way of life. Like the days of the Wild West, or maybe just the Wild West of the movies. I wish I was on a first-name basis with my local barkeep, and I wish he knew just how I liked my sasparilla. I wish I had …
Seguir leyendo ‘Some days we aren’t here at all’: Small business’ unpredictable hours angers time-keepers of the internet
‘Every year I get a $15-$25 gift card for a place I don’t go or never visited’: Cheap father gives adult son a Ruby Tuesday gift card despite the restaurant not existing in their city
I understand that not everybody is a fantastic gift-giver. Most people are not like me…someone who heard my sister talking about drinking glasses she desperately wanted on the Monday before Christmas and had them wrapped and ready for her to open on Christmas Day. Most of us can’t give gifts to save our lives, so …
Seguir leyendo ‘Every year I get a $15-$25 gift card for a place I don’t go or never visited’: Cheap father gives adult son a Ruby Tuesday gift card despite the restaurant not existing in their city
“Next we’ll have food rentals”: Stingy restaurant charges bizarre fees for taking food to go
Going out to eat is an expensive venture these days. In my city, you can hardly get away from a dinner with a friend for under $50, and I’m just talking about your portion. Eating at restaurants is one of life’s greatest joys, though. I’m sometimes convinced that it’s the reason I was put on …
Seguir leyendo “Next we’ll have food rentals”: Stingy restaurant charges bizarre fees for taking food to go
Patient Diners Prompt Disgruntled Thread After Waiting 90 Minutes to Get the Bill at Hotpot Restaurant
Restaurant service is a pretty basic thing, so long as you’re not a douchebag customer. All that most of us hope for is to be served promptly and with courtesy, as well as get any issues sorted out without a hitch. As a server, these objectives can occasionally be harder to deliver than they should …
Seguir leyendo Patient Diners Prompt Disgruntled Thread After Waiting 90 Minutes to Get the Bill at Hotpot Restaurant
Man Expresses Annoyance When His Wife Wants to Dine In at a Restaurant Just Minutes Before Close
If you’ve ever worked in the food service industry, you certainly know the pain of customers coming in right minutes before closing. While it’s still technically appropriate and enforced by management, the last thing you want after an eight-and-a-half-hour shift is to stick around an extra hour for a couple of customers. If you’ve never …
Seguir leyendo Man Expresses Annoyance When His Wife Wants to Dine In at a Restaurant Just Minutes Before Close
Stingy Customers Spark Backlash After Trying to Give Server Negative Tip
One particularly negative thing about tipping culture is that it allows customers to be petty. If some entitled person eats at a restaurant and not everything is to their liking, they can hit their server where it hurts when it comes to the check. It might be bad manners to skimp on a tip, but …
Seguir leyendo Stingy Customers Spark Backlash After Trying to Give Server Negative Tip
‘I wanna sit at that table’: People Gripe About Infuriating Things That Diners Say to Restaurant Hosts
At this point, we are all aware that restaurant work can be pretty unforgiving. Those long hours and busy shifts take their toll whether you’re in the kitchen or front of house, but it’s those customer facing roles that deal with the most when it comes to the general public. Servers are not shy about …
Seguir leyendo ‘I wanna sit at that table’: People Gripe About Infuriating Things That Diners Say to Restaurant Hosts
Rude Karens Harass Waitress For Wearing Shorts in 100-Degree Heat
Older adults always have something to say about what young people are wearing. When I was 15, I went on a school trip alone with my yearbook teacher and a small group of parents and kids. This was during an era when overalls were coming back into fashion, and I wore my favorite pair of …
Seguir leyendo Rude Karens Harass Waitress For Wearing Shorts in 100-Degree Heat
TikToker Shares Pro Tip For How to Stop Paying For Your Friends’ Expensive Orders At Restaurants
We’ve all been there.