May I Not Take Your Order

I just want to say a little about the state of waitressing in my little corner of Maine. It really is a big pet peeve for your pal. Now it is not that there are not very good waitresses, but they are few and far between. It seem the training of all of these staffs seem to come from the time honored code of, the customer should always be ignored. Let's not pay too much attention to the dinners. Let's not try to catch the eye of the diner, because it will cause you to work so much more. Let us drop off the menus and disappear for at least 15 minutes. Then take the drink order and once again not come back for another 15 minutes. And after the diner orders are taken we can expect that if we ordered a appetizer that the dinner and the appetizer will arrive at the table at the same time. And one of the best example of bad waitressing was a couple of weeks ago we were having a meal at a local tavern and after the meal we were all talking when the waitress came up to the table and said that we should rap it up so someone else could use the table. Now in Willie's world if I was this person I would have said "Would you like to order something else if not would you like to go to the bar because we are very crowded and you could continue to talk and have a drink if you wouldn't mind." Needless to say she did not recieve a very big tip.