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Nic: Encountering Waiter From Hell

Posted by DFO

May 18, 2009 11:21 a.m. • 4 comments

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Nic: He takes our order and the food came out quicker than I expected. We talked and enjoyed the food. The waiter stopped by a couple times to check how things were going.The last time he checked in he asked if there’s anything else he could get us and Bekah told him that it was my birthday. The waiter dropped a dessert menu down on the table and told me I got a free dessert. Aside from the rough start(Bekah and I are sure he was trying to look down her shirt) things were going predictably superb. That is until the waiter delivered our check. Bekah opened the black folder and scrunched her face in an unsettled look. “I don’t think that’s OK.” she said. I asked what it was and she shook her head but then handed me the bill. At the top of the receipt, the waiter chicken scratched “Happy mother effin’ birthday.” No joking. I wish I was kidding.

DFO: I needed to give a higher profile to this post by Nic.

Question: Have you had a close encounter with a bad waiter/waitress recently?

Four comments on this post so far. Add yours!

Liz on May 18 at 10:43 a.m.
not recently, but boy do I have a lot of good stories from the other side of the table!!!

Check out this little news item, though.
http://www.wltx.com/news/story.aspx?storyid=73684
Don’t remember if my original source on this story was HBO or elsewhere, but this DOES take bad service to an even higher level than Nic’s story does…scary!!!
Collingwood on May 18 at 11:32 a.m.
I live in eastern Idaho where 8 out of 10 servers are terrible, For some reason the service down here is sub-par at best, even at the fast food joints.
George_Sands on May 18 at 12:08 p.m.
Why not post a link to a PDF scan of the receipt?

Think restaurants are bad, ask any employee in a Walmart and you get worse treatment.

Yesterday I wanted to go to Michaels up on N. Division in Spokane, so I called asked for the street number. Female clerk on the phone didnt know the address of the story they worked out.

Burger King has fish sandwich fridays. For some reason they dont put Tartar sauce on the sandwich even when asked for.

I cant understand employers whom in this economic downturn do not realize the SERVICE keeps people coming back, they already made the sale.
Charlie on May 18 at 4:57 p.m.
Had a cook from hell sometime back. We went out to dinner one evening, ordered our meals then the fun began. When the food came pointing I pointed out to the waitress my order was completely wrong. She agreed, checked her order and went back for mine. 20 minutes later my order came, still wrong, sent it back to the cook with instructions for him to eat it. We paid for my wifes meal, got dirty looks from the cook and let the manager know of our mis-hap. Months later we went back and the whole crew had been changed.

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