FOOD RAGE: There oughta’ be a (lemon) law, ‘Reader’s Voice’ commentator rages
We didn’t realize this was an issue. Or a fad, for that matter. From today’s “Reader’s Voice” in the Dec. 27 Charleston Gazette:
“The next time I get lemon in my water that I didn’t ask for in a restaurant I am not leaving a tip. They shold not assume that everybody likes that stupid fad.”
Waitstaff, beware the sourpusses! What about you? Lemon? Or no lemon? And what else drives you postal about restaurant service? Here’s our candidate: cutesy, chatsy, folksy waiters and waitresses who sit down beside you or at your table to take your order. You should be able to call the police on them.
December 28th, 2006 at 4:32 pm
I think people need to find something else to complain about if a slice of lemon in their water upsets them. If you refuse to leave a tip over something like that, then you probably wouldn’t have left much of one to begin with.
December 30th, 2006 at 3:49 pm
I agree completely with you about the sit-down folks, I often want to pistol whip them. The two biggest things I dislike are waitstaff who are bringing my food or drinks, and then stop to chat with someone on the way. I was at a local restaurant and the waiter stopped to talk to a friend on the way out and actually sat my food down on a table that had yet to be cleared and talked for a good 10 minutes. The other is people who feel the need to use non-English terms for things when a perfectly acceptable English word exists. Maybe its bias since I learned the language, but I dont mind ordering my food in Japanese when I go to Kaifu or Sushi Atlantic, but it irks me when I go somewhere and they persist in calling wine vino and sounding like a mentally defective frenchman when saying things like ‘cabernet sauvignon’. If you don’t know exactly what you’re saying and how to say it, stop trying to sound cultivated and just speak English, and leave the poor accents at home.