Saturday, February 25, 2006

IS IT "JUST" ME?

I was in Garden this morn with my family (or part of it) to do some hospital visitation and other things. Of course we had to do the Walmart thing and then decided to go and grab a bite to eat before heading home. So we went into an unnamed restauraunt (hint -across from Walmart) where we waited a few minutes before we were seated. So a girl who looked like she was having the worst day of her life seated us and told us our server would be with us shortly. Well here comes our server so I asked her how she was doing today. She said, "I'm sick, at at least I'm getting sick". Well, that really made me want to eat good in the neighborhood. I let it go and we ordered our food. Meanwhile I opened up the cloth napkin with the silverware enclosed only to be greeted with some kind of green stuff falling out of it. The knife had some sort of "residue" on it so I'm thinking "not cool". It happened that the manager was walking by so I mentioned to him that I thought I might need some new silverware as what I had seemed "rather dirty". Well at least he apologized. Okay, we wait a little while and our food comes. All except my son's french fries that were to go with his chicken fajita wrap. She said the fries were still being made so she'd bring them out to him shortly. (Don't you normally bring the whole meal at once?) Well, shortly came and went and with about 2 bites left of the fajita she came and asked if everything was alright. I said, "Everything except for the fact that the my boy was still waiting on his fries." She kind of responded in her valley girl voice and said she'd "like, go and see what was taking "Bobby" so long on the fries." Finally the fries arrived with the explanation that "it was just so hard to get the cook's attention". HELLO! Whose attention are we trying to get here? Is it just me or is good service slowly going the way of the dinasoar? And then we're expected to give 15% for a tip? Here's a tip. Work a little harder. See ya!

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

The service at Sonic is always WONDERFUL! In fact, that little condiment guy, comes around almost as often as a waitress! What's more, you don't have to get out of your vehicle, (which is also, a very big drawback to Sonic!) God was just testing your "grace" giving!

T. J. said...

Hmmm. I think that it depends on the town you are in and the restaurant you go to. The Sonic in Hillsboro is terrible with service. And never eat at the Pizza Hut or McDonald's in Lindsborg. Slowest of all time! I tend to find that Mexican restaurants have great service. Not sure why, but they do.

Anonymous said...

AND THE FRIES WEREN'T EVEN THAT GREAT!!!

Kevin F. said...

I sometimes like to picture that person sitting in front of me applying for a job. If they acted like that, would I want to hire them? No way!!!! I actually once told a Wal-Mart cashier that if they were working for me and acted like they did, I'd have them fired.

Anonymous said...

My husband has a game he likes to play with employees of various businesses. He askes them..."How is your day going?" 75 % of the time they respond with something like..."I've only got X amount of hours to work and then I get off" or "I'm tired. (accompanied by a yawn) or "My day off is tomorrow." ..... and so it goes. He usually responds with something like them being fortunate to have a job, etc. Usually falls on deaf ears. They don't have a clue.
Oh, well. We have this fantasy that we will conduct training sessions for Walmart check-out persons and Dillons high school
(Male)employees in another life.
O.K. Good... I got that off my chest, I feel better already.

Anonymous said...

I think you need a trip to the islands with all the food provided in a buffet line so there'll be no issues with service!

Anonymous said...

"I'm packing up and getting the heck out of Dodge" - P.R.