Post Punk Kitchen Forum

ok! and here is a server giving you what is really going on, in their minds: we are told to clear away dirty plates that people are finished with, so that clearing up after you leave goes faster. if your dirty napkin is atop your plate, that is usually a 'finished' signal. when i go out to eat and i'm done with my food and put my napkin on top, i'm glad when the server takes the plate away. at the point where my dirty napkin perches atop my gross, used plate, that plate becomes trash, and i do not want trash to sit in front of me at the dinner table. i feel like i'm doing someone a favor when i take their dirty plate away, whether everyone is done eating or not.

here's my (work related) pet peeve of the day: when people don't forking tip me. i know it sucks to tip and that we should make decent wages to being with, etc etc etc, but we don't and sometimes it's the only job we can find and people not tipping us 'on principle' doesn't mean i'm ever going to make more than $2 an hour from my employer.


eta: edited to say that we servers probably have twice as many pet peeves about the people who eat in restaurants as they do about us. waiting tables sucks. so hard.

I know that a server saying, "You still working on that?" is awful. What I hate more is, "How's everything tasting?" It's way too intimate. What if they asked, "How did the food feel as your tongue pushed it around your mouth?" To me, "How's everything tasting?" is veering too close to that.

!! we really are supposed to ask how shiitake is tasting! we honestly do not care, but our bosses are watching!

i can't wait to break this question out at my next dinner party.

As a server, asking someone "How's everything tasting?" is just as intimate and disgusting... which is I don't ask that question.

You're a server too??

eta- I just read your post at the top of the page.



THIS.

i am and FML!

Sigged!

I don't think I have ever been asked that? It's just weird and a little creepy. Whats wrong with just a plain old "How is everything?"

It's just too darn impersonal. I think I might need my servers to massage my belly and inspect my food as I chew it. It's like they say: No cares cares how much you know until they know how much you care.

I used to be a server it sucked!! Now i work in retail. I'm a glutton for punishment

when men leave the toilt seat up! I almost always fall in.

When a business is closed and their "OPEN" sign is still on.

the way my roommate raps her cooking utensil on the side of the pot or pan

When someone says something unrelated on a facebook status (if it's like the first reply or something)

Ex.
My aunt's status: anyone know which stores will give you boxes for moving?
Aunt's friend comments: saw your mom/dad today. It was good to see them.

My mom does this all the time! Like she just wants to say hi or something. It irks me.

My sister does that. Very loudly.

the way my husband does laundry. i appreciate that he tries, but how many times do i have to tell you to not put my underwear in the dryer? or that red is a separate load from blue? i admit i have a lot of bugaboos about laundry and how it's done, though, so pretty much no matter what he does it will in some way be wrong. but my underwear!

Writing teachers who say that similes are different from metaphors. Similes are metaphors. They are a specific type of metaphor! Not all metaphors are similes, but all similes are metaphors. I know everyone's 3rd grade English teacher taught them this, but it's wrong. I'm taking a songwriting class right now and the instructor is going on about how similes are different from metaphors, which is wrong! But I don't want to be a jerk and correct him. Even though I know I'm right.. So I'll just vent here and move on. :)

Similes are a kind of metaphor... so they are different in the same way that tigers and different from cats... I guess.

You should write a song about it, though. Show him who da boss.

People who meet long lost friends in supermarkets, and proceed to have long winded reunions in the middle of the aisle....on a saturday afternoon....and then they continue to do this in Every. Single. Aisle. Seriously? There's a Starbucks right across the forking street! Catch up over some coffee, and let me shop without having to awkwardly reach around you for that can of beans. JESUS.

Oh, I would LOVE to do that! I really wish there was something like that around here, or that I was any good at all at writing songs on my own, I've genuinely been trying and I genuinely stink at it! Please send tips my way, if you can?

When my students pronounce the word "pattern" as patteren." How many forking times a day do I have to say "it's PAT-turn not PAT-tur-REN!"

It's online! www.berkleemusic.com

When people call tacos "burritos" it really drives me out of my mind. Burritos are different dammit!