Chalk this up to ONTD Restaurants

[epershand]

As of tonight I have been banned from one of my formerly favorite restaurants. Honestly, I don't particularly want to go back there on the basis of my experience tonight. Sorry, Ti Couz, I guess there will be no more tasty buckwheat crepes for me, because I'm not particularly a fan of being insulted and sworn at in a mildly antisemitic way by your wait staff. I also didn't know that asking to talk to someone's manager about their behavior was a bannable offense.

(I also would have liked: for our meal order to have been put in the first time we ordered it. For the entres to have been served to the correct people. For our desert order to have come back correctly, and for the waiter to have been something other than shocked that the person whose order was messed up... wanted to eat what she had ordered and not something else. For our request for a water refill to have been filled. For there have to been forks with dessert without our getting them ourselves.

And... how about not being called "damn New Yorkers" to our face while we were dividing up our tab? [A word of advice: when your audience of four includes two Jews, one of whom just moved from New York, pick your words more carefully. A further word of advice: "I've never been to New York, so I didn't know that was a stereotype" is not actually an apology.]

And, after that, to have gotten our bill back according to what we wrote down, not divided evenly into four. And to have had an actual chance to talk to the manager, not told that we should deal with it ourselves with the waiter. And then offered the chance to talk to the bartender. And finally to have another member of the wait staff come to talk to us.)

Really, before the "damn New Yorkers" thing I was just going to give him a 10% tip and be ok with things.

But on the BRIGHT SIDE I have a weetziefae! She is halfway between her old New York life and her new New Zealand life, and that halfway point is a summer in San Francisco! Hurrah!

Comments

[wild_irises]

I have always been a fan of Ti Couz. I will miss eating there, but it certainly doesn't sound like a place I want to go.

[karlht]

Well, that's one less restaurant in SF for me to explore. What microcephalic pinheads.

[epershand]

Yeah. I'd like to think that it was just one particularly bad waiter, but the experience of being denied a manager to talk to, and then being asked never to come back to the restaurant, put an especially bad taste in my mouth.

[epershand]

Yeah, I'm going to miss it too. But not ::too:: much after last night.

[damned_colonial]

Fuckers. You should put this on yelp.

[epershand]

Trust me, I did.

[rhoboat]

I was just about to say the same. Glad you already did.

[newredshoes]

Christ on a freaking pogo stick.

[epershand]

Waking up to see your Wandering Jew post was just the cherry on top. ::facepalm::

[newredshoes]

Yeah, it's some week for this sort of bullshit, isn't it?

[meloukhia]

I'll be going to the City later this month, and I guess I know one restaurant I'll be avoiding.

What the fuck. That is all kinds of atrocious.

[epershand]

Part of me doesn't even believe that it happened.

[meloukhia]

Things like that can be so gobstopping that you reel for several days, asking your dining companions 'they did, in fact, say that, right? I didn't just have a really bad dream?'

[oliviacirce]

WTAF. Well, definitely won't be eating there again.

[epershand]

Boo to them.

[themeletor]

whoah. i just spent time trying to come up with creative narratives in my head by which i could try to justify any one or two of these items at a time ... and no dice. that shit is bananas.

[epershand]

The narrative that I have finally settled on was: the waiter was high. That would explain the laughter, the forgetfulness, and the sense that his mouth was a direct gateway to his stream of conscious.

[themeletor]

i think it's important to include "high and also a douchebag." i tend to be well outnumbered, at waitress!job, by people who are either tweaked or well-stoned or both, and they manage to still be perfectly sweet and overall effective servers (if sometimes forgetful or a little slow-to-respond). i've even worked with a few servers who were really only tolerable with a little thc in their systems.

[epershand]

Yes, that is an important distinction. He was a douchebag, and had enough drugs of some kind in his system that he let it out at work.