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First time I ever used a coupon at a restaurant

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boo7382 Newbie

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I will stab you in the face with a rusty spork.

Reminds me of an old school episode of "The Critic"

He's in a kFC or something and is really hungry and there is a guy dressed like a chicken cleaning the floors. He starts looking at him and the guy goes "stay away or Ill spork your ass!" :lol:

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Example: your food takes forever to come out. That could be that your server took forever to ring it in OR it just could be that the kitchen isn't getting out food fast enough/ whoever is running the window (making sure tickets/plates are ready and sending out food) plain sucks ass at it.

It can be that your server put the order in wrong as well. It can be your server can FORGET to put an order entirely. It can be that your server BROUGHT out the obviously wrong food. It can be that your server dropped your food.

There are LOTS of reasons why. My husband and I have experienced all of these except for the dropped food. We have had servers ADMIT forgetting to put in orders and as well as putting in orders wrong.

Your drinks take forever to get there from the bar. This is not your server's fault. For all you know the server is over there cussing out the bartender for being so behind and demanding that your drinks be made ahead of everyone's because they have been so delayed already.

This is the one that you are mostly wrong on for the most part. While sometimes the bartender is playing around, most of the time it's your server's fault honestly.

I have had servers admitted forgetting to put in drink orders. I have had servers forget to GET drink orders from the bar. I have had once where they were out of the Presidente' Shakers at Chili's, the bartender made the margarita in a different glass, my waitress didn't go ask about it in 8 minutes or so where it was to the bartender. She asked if I had gotten it by around 15 minutes or so. I had told her I didn't receive it yet. Altogether I waited literally 30 minutes to get a margarita. It was my server's fault since she didn't go check on WHERE the heck it was.

Another time, I had a server that put in the order wrong, she put in a mudslide that was a frozen one, I ordered a while russian which is normally made on the rocks.

Another time, a waitress forgot to put a drink order in about 20 minutes.

Another time, I had a server forget my margarita from the bar at Applebee's, which he just had gone to grab at after 25 minutes LITERALLY of waiting for it.

Another time I had a waiter at a FINE DINING restaurant that forgot my margarita from the bar, that when I asked about it, it was just sitting there and he grabbed it to bring to me.

We had another time where I ordered a white russian with kahlua and Absolut vodka. Well, this waitress must not have ever drank this or seen this drink before, she was soooo STUPID, she brought out a CLEAR glass with just kahlua and vodka, meaning that's a BLACK RUSSIAN, the idiot. Servers need to know and LISTEN to what the customer ordered. Just because I didn't say cream or milk doesn't mean that I wanted a black russian. I have NEVER had to say that before when I ordered, because that's what makes a white russian, white, hence the word "white." That point was, she SERVED it OBVIOUSLY wrong and possibly even gave the order in wrong as well since the bartender should have known what a white russian was.

When you ask for salt on your margarita, then your server brings it out without salt, that's your server's fault 100%. They aren't blind. That's a delay right there.

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AutymsMommy said:

I was a bartender during college and I can tell you that in my bar, it was generally the servers fault when bar drinks didn't get to a table in a decent amount of time. I would make service drinks first (I could entertain my bar customers easier than you can explain to a table why it's taking so long to get a drink)... put them on the service bar and the waiters were supposed to pick them up. I can't tell you how many times those drinks would sit there for 5-10 minutes. Then I would have the server bringing the drink back complaining that the customer said it was "watered down".

See, most of the time the bar drinks are YOUR SERVER'S FAULT. So you see you have NO CLUE OF WHAT you are talking about. Sure, sometimes the bartenders play around or chit-chat, but some bartenders can still chit-chat and make drinks even. I would say most bartenders don't have time if they have drinks to make to play around if it's busy or they would lose their job.

Why didn't you include that the server can delay putting in a drink order, YET, you say for a food order, huh? It's the same thing. Delaying putting in orders regardless of where it goes to is your server's fault.

I have had bartenders delay making drinks too at bars for example, I will admit, but I find I have had most of my problems with the servers honestly.

You don't eat out much or go out drinking at bars much, do you?

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That's why I always made sure that I was looking at my food in the window and making sure that when a food runner was taking it out, it was all correct, at least correct by my memory.

Why by your memory? Didn't you WRITE IT DOWN? You should have been comparing that written order to the plates of food to ensure ALL components that you don't have to touch the food to notice the mistakes were correct.

but the expo (person sending out the food) might send it to the wrong table.

Normally, the expo doesn't *BRING* it to the table, so if they didn't deliver the food, they can't possibly be at fault for anything obvious that you don't have to touch the food to notice the mistake or mistakes.

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So do you guys break out the coupons at dinner very often?

A lot of times. A lot of the chain restaurants have sign up for a free appetizer coupon when you buy an entrée.

You sound like either you don't have time to or that you are too lazy to sign up for coupons or you are forgetful about bringing them or using them.

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