Dress Rehearsal

[billroper]

We had our final dress rehearsal for the Duckon show today. It went well, save for the fact that daddy_guido was unable to make it due to a conflict with a group meeting for his business school class. But we rehearsed around him and life was, in general, good.

After rehearsal, daisy_knotwise, Katie, Jerry, and I adjourned to Max & Erma's, where we found that we had a server who was having, well, a bad day. He was making a lot of mistakes, not just at our table, but at the neighboring table, which was much less charitable than we were. On the other hand, he did take the value of my delayed meal off the bill (he'd put in for the wrong size of burger) and we did eventually get the chocolate chip cookies that he'd forgotten to put in, which was just as well, since I'd still have been eating the delayed burger if the cookies had shown up on time.

The moral of our story is, "Son, if you're having a bad day, consider writing down the orders instead of trying to remember them. Not writing them down and messing them up isn't going to impress anyone."

Comments

[tigertoy.livejournal.com]

I strongly suspect that doing the orders by memory is a requirement of the job. There's this notion in the air that classy restaurants feature servers who don't need to write stuff down, ergo servers who do write the orders down are not classy. Dumb idea, but then so are most ideas that look to snob appeal.

[(Anonymous)]

The first time I read in Heinlein's "I Will Fear No Evil" about waitstaff who didn't write down orders because they had gotten all the way through school without having learned how to read, I was horrified.

Now, it's a reality.

BTW, the waitress in the book who couldn't read, did manage to keep all her orders straight, but when her secret illiteracy was revealed, she was fired.

[robin-june.livejournal.com]

The first time I read in Heinlein's "I Will Fear No Evil" about waitstaff who didn't write down orders because they had gotten all the way through school without having learned how to read, I was horrified.

Now, it's a reality.

BTW, the waitress in the book who couldn't read, did manage to keep all her orders straight, but when her secret illiteracy was revealed, she was fired.

[robin-june.livejournal.com]

P.S., sorry about the A. Nonny Mouse post.

[billroper]

Actually, that's a not unreasonable expectation in a really expensive restaurant. I don't expect it in a Max & Erma's (or Chili's, or...) and I'd really prefer that the waiter take the order down so that it gets to the kitchen correctly.

Waiters in really expensive restaurants are supposed to be perfect. Anywhere else, I expect the occasional glitch. I didn't pay for perfection.