Man, I don’t even feel comfortable grabbing my own plate at a buffet.
The redness of this flag is 100% dependent on his demeanor, it could easily go either way. If I’m working and a customer volunteers to help me do my job in a manner that is clearly not hostile or insulting I’d call that a good thing.
This would freak me the fuck out. Let me do my job, please and thank you. You don’t work here.
You sound fragile
Weird, I thought they sounded like a professional that doesn’t want untrained randos stepping in and throwing off their work flow.
If a single person carrying a plate without your permission throws you off your flow you never had a flow, fragile
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You sound like you’ve never worked a service job.
Lol get your ears checked babe
There’s literally no way for someone to do this that’s not hostile and insulting.
You are wrong
Yeah judging from all of your comments on this thread I’m pretty sure you’re the last person to be able to judge what comes off as hostile and insulting. In fact that kind of seems like your whole bag from what I can tell.
Another baseless assumption, I know goddamn well I’m not being nice to the many stupid commenters here. You do not have enough info in this post to judge, if you’re going to pretend otherwise I’m going to give you a hard time about it.
He can be used as excuse for some shitty manager to fire someone “look how slow you are, the client had to come itself to take the plate. Don’t bother coming back tomorrow”
This is the first/only good point I’ve seen here as to why this would be a bad thing to do regardless of legal liability or his demeanor or intent. Management don’t need a legal or moral justification to be assholes.
Do you work in the hospitality industry?
Not currently, but I worked front and back of house for several years at sit-down restaurants, plus fast food back in high school. If someone volunteers to make my job easier and isn’t a jerk about it I don’t see any reason to be upset, seems pretty simple.
Untrained Customers ‘helping’ sounds like an imsurance liability nightmare.
I wouldn’t trust a customer to have clean enough hands to roll flatware. Which would be more helpful than crowding the pickup window or drinks booth with strangers.
Folks who want counter service better skip table service places.
Liability for what exactly? If he’s only handling his own dishes carrying them to the table then the end result is exactly the same as if he handled them at the table.
Slip and fall, for one.
He can just as easily do that walking across the dining room to the bathroom regardless of who brings his food to his table, it changes absolutely nothing about the risk involved or the legal liability.
While holding hot food? Surrounded by other guests? Doing the work that the restaurant employee was meant to do?
Just sit down and let them do their job. They don’t want your help, I promise you.
I was just thinking this would make a good scamming scheme, team up with someone spill hot coffee over them when doing this, sue the restaurant for damages.
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I would add that regularity and familiarity are key as well. How often does he do this? Is it at restaurants where he is a regular and knows them? If he’s a regular who does this occasionally, probably fine. If he hangs out by the kitchen of every Applebee’s or Cracker Barrel he wanders into, he’s a serial killer probably.
These are reasonable follow up questions to ask, we do not have enough info
Bruh you’re an .ml why are you stanning a scab.
Scabs get paid, words mean things, dumbass
Per the post the boyfriend is doing this because he is impatient not because he is nice and trying to genuinely make the waitresses life better.
Impatient =/= rude or hostile, per the post he’s smiling with no visible indication of anger or displeasure, you don’t have a clue what his motives are or how nice he may or may not be about it
Both can be true though. He could be doing it because he’s impatient, but doing it in a way that makes the waiter/waitress’s life better.
That’s actually annoying as fuck.
The whole ritual of being served at a restaurant makes me queasy. But I’d never dare interfere in it. Never!
Also, when the food takes long to arrive it’s a good sign: they took time to prepare it.
Or it sat in the window too long waiting for a runner and now it’s cold (sadly, I’ve had this happen more often than it simply taking a while to be prepared).
I didn’t consider that. BF’s behavior actually makes sense in that case. I guess I never eat at restaurants that are that full. But seeing OOP’s picture, neither do they.
I don’t really approve of their behavior because it’s sending “you don’t know how to do your job” vibes among other things. They could’ve just signaled to their server and asked for a status update.
I know as a programmer, I’d be pretty annoyed if someone shoved my chair out of the way to start typing the code themselves. No mechanic is going to be happy about a customer grabbing tools and doing their own work.
Or they’re slammed and your burger comes out dry because they cranked the grill up to cook things faster.
I don’t go out to eat at peak hours anymore.
Yeah me too, but I can’t help but not try and hand them plates to clear and get them all in order.
I don’t know what but I don’t like being waited on like that makes them feel like servants to me but we are equal.
Now we have beige flags? Soon there’ll be burnt umber, fuscia, striped, herringbone, and eventually they’ll have gone to plaid.
My Chilean flag is that I enjoy back scratches.
My Chilean flag is that
digo weon muchissima mas que los otros español hablantes.
A cresta!
Lo siento, Chile elegí al azar.
Is a Chilean flag just a really narrow strip of fabric that runs down the entire length of the flagpole? If not, it should be.
I’m waiting for the swiss flag. It’s a huge plus
I’m waiting for houndstooth.
My cirulean flag is that I want more flag types.
I look for yellow ochre flags.
Yeah this is unacceptable behavior. That said I think this is something that ought to be just explained to him because he might legitimately be a total dumbass.
That said I wish more restaurants were like Fuddruckers or Firehouse Subs and just let me grab my food from the counter myself once it was done. I don’t really want to pay someone to carry my food & drinks to me and be possibly insincerely nice to me to increase their tip or whatever.
Ask him if he wants to come back to the kitchen and wash his own dishes while he’s at it.
How’s his patience behind the wheel of a car?
Imagine his partner is in labour for hours. He gets impatient and just grabs a baby from the nursery and brings it to her with that smile. Like I’m hundred percent sure that if he does this regularly he has grabbed plates that were meant for other tables.
He gets impatient and just grabs a baby from the nursery
You don’t want to know how often that really happened!
Uhh… I did most things in the hospital before my wife gave birth. The nurses were simply too busy so I started helping with the small stuff and then they said ohh thanks when I’d adjust the baby heart monitor and other sensors that randonlu went off. I of course made sure it was ok with them.
Because there’s no such a thing as unskilled labor, some people believe that you can wait tables without training, and that people duck as waiters.
Plus they clearly hate the job so it makes me feel as if they are making me a favor. That said, probably the job pays terribly and that’s the reason why this happened in the first place.I want competent waiters with competent salaries.
Friend of mine is a waiter who says things like “give me that two dollar minimum wage any day with tips.“ Says he makes more than anybody else in the restaurant except the owner. But again, this is skilled labor as you say, I couldn’t just go in and be the same caliber with no experience, he’s been doing this decades.
It depends on where you work for those tips. Fine dining and busy bars tend to do good. Though I was a bartender at one somewhat busy bar and tips were shit because the clientele were just that way. Old folks and people who spent all their money gambling on video poker mostly. Was kind of annoying when someone won big and bought the house a round but didn’t tip at all or tipped $1.
But I only had that job for one year before I left to work in IT. No tips but way better pay overall.
9 times out of 10 this douche bag would grab another tables order, or mess up serving flow because he thinks his brain is operating in a different level than the lowly servers.
What if the table that was sat before you had the same order as you, you impatient asshat?
Stay at home and nuke burritos if you are too childish to wait your turn.
This looks like the guy is self-reporting.
THIS IS NOT A DRILL
I repeat
THIS IS NOT A DRILLCONFIDENCE IS HIGH
(wtf is that even supposed to mean)
