Restaurant pet peeve

[Anonymous]

I second the person who said over-priced and too large portions on the kids' desserts. Just give me a cheap kids dessert that is really small so that my kids will leave happy. They're not going to eat a 3-scoop sundae and I hate to leave it melting on the table. I also have a pet peeve with restaurants that put French fries on the side of every kids meal. The places that will offer fruit or other sides instead of French fries are much more likely to get my repeat business.

[Anonymous]

My cupboards are spilling out of restaurant grade kids cups. Yes, it says I eat out too much, but can they just use the damn Styrofoam cups, I do not need one more cup to bring home!

Interesting, auto-correct capitalized Styrofoam...It's the Kleenex of the kitchen I guess.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My cupboards are spilling out of restaurant grade kids cups. Yes, it says I eat out too much, but can they just use the damn Styrofoam cups, I do not need one more cup to bring home!

Interesting, auto-correct capitalized Styrofoam...It's the Kleenex of the kitchen I guess.

One of our favorite restaurants, Dogfish, switched to smaller verions of their adult cups. They are the thick plastic kind that stay at the restaurant. They put a disposable lid for a straaw on top. I love this because we don't "get" to bring the cup home and the only thing being thrown away is the straw and lid.

[Anonymous]

I hate when they bring the main courses while we are still eating appetizers.

[Anonymous]

Mine is wait staff who, upon learning you are not ordering any sort of alcohol, start to blow you off because your bill, and thus their tip, will be lower.

happens way too much. Worst case ever was Range in Chevy Chase. I was visibly pregnant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When they disappear when you are ready to pay and you have to ask someone else to get the check.

yes, yes!!!! and especially if they were interrupting you throughout dinner asking how everything is. then disappear when you are ready to pay. that happens so many times with me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I second the person who said over-priced and too large portions on the kids' desserts. Just give me a cheap kids dessert that is really small so that my kids will leave happy. They're not going to eat a 3-scoop sundae and I hate to leave it melting on the table. I also have a pet peeve with restaurants that put French fries on the side of every kids meal. The places that will offer fruit or other sides instead of French fries are much more likely to get my repeat business.

Just ask for fruit instead of fries. It is a restaurant. Order what you want.

[Anonymous]

"don't understand restaurants that are near event venues and don't properly staff their restaurants on nights of big events, like games or concerts. They act like there was no warning for the influx"

+ !

[Anonymous]

When "momnies" read to their kids at the table over when I'm trying to enjoy a quiet meal...

[Anonymous]

waiter/waitress asks "how's that tasting for you" -- a big thing in the midwest - or when you have a midwest transplant in DC!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My cupboards are spilling out of restaurant grade kids cups. Yes, it says I eat out too much, but can they just use the damn Styrofoam cups, I do not need one more cup to bring home!

Interesting, auto-correct capitalized Styrofoam...It's the Kleenex of the kitchen I guess.

You don't have to bring the cup home. And, you can use a glass for your kid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A half empty restaurant (we eat early) but they want to seat you in a clump with other tables right next to you.

They do this because they are putting you in one server's zone of tables. If you're eating early, they may not have all the zones open.

Yes, thank you Captain Obvious. I don't give a damn. I don't want to sit next to other diners in an empty restaurant for a waitress' convenience.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"Do you need change?" = you have just lost your tip

People who say stuff like this are looking for a reason to not tip.

They could be genuinely asking, they could be trained to say this, they could be tip-fishing. None of those are reasonsto withhold a tip altogether. That's on par with stealing (in my opinion)!

The server should just pick up the bill and say "I will be right back with your change." If the person doesn't need it, they can say so. The server likely has no idea how much money the customer has put down, but people do get offended thinking that the server is assuming they're getting all the change, so this is the way to phrase it to not offend the customer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:waiter/waitress asks "how's that tasting for you" -- a big thing in the midwest - or when you have a midwest transplant in DC!

I'm from the midwest and never heard that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When they interrupt u a number of times to ask how things are.

+1000

Woodmont Grill in Bethesda is the worst about this. I eat there all the time beause it is near work and the food is good but the service is overly attentive. If glasses are full, conversation is flowing and forks are being lifted leave it alone.