Restaurant Pet Peeves

[oletimer]

Stick your fork in my plate and I will stick my fork in your hand bar none.

Don't mess with my plate and my wife and my kidds and we might get a long fine.

Want my tip, earn it. I have to earn my money.

When I order a hamburger, don't bring me a cheezeburger. Can't stand cheeze on a hamburger. Love cheeze but not on a hamburger.

When I place my order don't feed everybody that follows after me for next twenty minutes before me.

[DaJudge]

No sharing
No substitutions
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That's funny. Those two are my peeves too, but for different reasons. I hate going out with people who get one plate and split it. Then they hog the free bread because they are HOOOOOOONGRY. Cheapos.

I also so hate it when people (usually my wife or children), have to make 15 alterations to the item on the menu.

[PastorDaniel]

forgot one...

Eating with a girlfriend who has developed the habit of picking all the choicest bits off of your plate.

This must be a universal female food issue; the women we dine with have access to the exact same menu we have, can make the same choices we make, but -- way too often -- order some odd, exotic menu item and then, once the food arrives, want "just a bite" of whatever the guy ordered. Of course they generously offer to share their dish with you, but it is a dish you REJECTED as a choice when you were ordering, so why would you want to taste it now??

I don't mind sharing (I did complain about portion size, afterall), but it's kind of annoying to look down and see that all the scallops or all the mushrooms or all the whatever I like best are gone from my plate.

I HATE sharing -- not because of the portions or anything... just because I order what I want, and can't understand why others didn't do the same thing. Why does my plate suddenly look so appealing when the food arrives??

Amen...this also applies when I'm preparing a snack in the kitchen and offer my wife something...she says "no" but then wants a "bite" of mine....but I don't like to share when I prepared "just enough" for me...I'm not selfish...I offered her something....

[Tim Elston]

Not exactly a pet peeve, but it would be if it were to happen again: having the waiter set a flaming meal in front of you and having your napkins, the table, your shirt and your pants completely soaked in oil by the time the flame dies down. I mean soaked!

[one love]

Not exactly a pet peeve, but it would be if it were to happen again: having the waiter set a flaming meal in front of you and having your napkins, the table, your shirt and your pants completely soaked in oil by the time the flame dies down. I mean soaked!

WOW

[Pastor Gary]

Not exactly a pet peeve, but it would be if it were to happen again: having the waiter set a flaming meal in front of you and having your napkins, the table, your shirt and your pants completely soaked in oil by the time the flame dies down. I mean soaked!

I can relate!
We were included in a very nice family event in Birmingham, with a bunch of folks eating at a local Benihana-style Japanese teppanyaki restaurant... cook in the middle of the table surrounded by diners... tricks with the utensils and corny patter --- good fun. Except that at one table the teppanyaki cook was Mexican, and at the other was Samoan or Tongan. Bizarre. They were the WORST teppanyaki cooks I have ever seen, and the guy flipped hot oily food around that hit me more than once, and he splattered me with so many sprinklets of oil the slacks I was wearing were ruined.

[Dr. Ron]

My girth supports the notion that I have few pet peeves when dining.....

I love large portions .....hate small ones.

I love med/rare steak , seared on the outside and raw on the inside...the way God intended a steak to be eaten.

I love dim light

I love to share with someone I love....but not the whole table...and I don't share too often because mine is usually gone before the others can get to it.

I love loud music....I am a musician

I love the sound of kids.....their laughter is the most beautiful music.....as long as it is my grandkids....(We have become that family no one wants to see coming)....

I love waiting for a table....I meet folks and invite them to church and get to know them

I don't like booths...because my body is not suited to them very well....but if I have to, I won't let that keep me from eating.

I like a "to-go "cup. It's nice to have one to refill several times after the sever has taken your glass.

I like the mandtory tip....it saves me time from using my calculator....and makes Christians who think .50 is a tip look better. We generally tip our servers the way we give to God.

I like it when people gobble up the bread.....I don't need it.....

I like it when the cooks speak a different language...I have been a cook and I know what gets said in a kitchen.....

I could go on....but I love food......and I don't despair too much of the issues. I can just NOT go out if I think my 50.00 makes me the equivalent of Rockefeller. I think it strange that people who spend most of their time at burger King, become snobs in a sit down enviornment.

[Paully_44]

I like the mandtory tip....it saves me time from using my calculator....and makes Christians who think .50 is a tip look better. We generally tip our servers the way we give to God.

I double the tax. At nearly 9%, that is usually an 18% tip. So when we go with a group and they add the mandatory 15% tip, they actually lose a bit with me.

[Billy n NC]

Coming from a guy the Airlines calls

a person of size....


Going into a resturant and the hostess takes you to a BOOTH.
With tables availalble just a few feet away. UGGGhh

[Pastor Gary]

I like the mandtory tip....it saves me time from using my calculator....and makes Christians who think .50 is a tip look better. We generally tip our servers the way we give to God.

I double the tax. At nearly 9%, that is usually an 18% tip. So when we go with a group and they add the mandatory 15% tip, they actually lose a bit with me.

Our tax is 4.17%. Should I tip under 9%?

[Full Quiver]

pet peeve numero uno

squeezing a party of 8 or more into a table for 5-6



drinks not refilled
orders not correct of course
the ticket/bill not correct
hounding about dessert in front of children
waiting for a table when you can see ten empty ones available (not my fault they didn't schedule enough help)

[cndlou]

I like the taste of food. Really. Food tastes good. If you can't cook without totally obliterating the flavor of the entree (beef/pork/chicken/fish) with so much garlic, salt, onion or foofy sauce that you an no longer even taste the protein, give up.

My dad hates that... He always says, "If you have to hire me to eat it...it probably wasn't worth eating anyway..."