[siduri]

In guess from the kinds of places I eat in in Rome, the problems are quite different.

I don;t get mad if it's an actual waiter, because they are paid nothing and usually don;t even get the miserable tips people leave here (if it's 5 % it's a lot) because the owner takes them all (!!!). But often it's the owner, or members of the owner's family that serves the meals. They seem to believe that it is somehow rude to bring the check when you ask for it. I've seen these guys go over to the side, and wait around for ten or more minutes, and THEN go to the cash register and calculate the bill, and bring it to the table. It's like they think it's rude to look to eager to get your money. But since most of the time it's almost impossible to get your food, to get an extra bottle of water, more bread or (heaven forbid) salt and pepper, you spend most of the meal waiting for stuff, and can;t wait to get out of there.

But check this out on the theme of snobby waiters,
YouTube - Mitchell and Webb - Bad Waiter

[Phaedrus]

Originally Posted by siduri

But check this out on the theme of snobby waiters,
YouTube - Mitchell and Webb - Bad Waiter

That's awesome!

[san4os]

...
--- when they bring me my order long time!!!

--- when they come to me often and ask me "would you like smt else??"

[TheKitchenSink]

When I was a little kid, my family and I were out at Red Lobster with some friends and our server QUIT mid-service. I guess it was really busy and they didn't have any idea what was going on. It took hours for us to get our food and by the time they finally served us, they were out of more than half the items on the menu.

To this day, I have no idea why we didn't just leave...guess our party was a bunch of pushovers. Not me though, I worked in food-service for a while and though I'm always courteous to those servers who treat me right, I also refuse to be jerked around.

[KYHeirloomer]

We had a similar situation at a Shoney's. The server walked out in the middle of the shift to go party with his friends.

Making it worse: the manager told me, in a tone of long-suffering, "this is the second time he's done that." The guy then got his nose out of joint when rather than sympathizing, I told him that in any place with a real manager there wouldn't have been an opportunity for it to have happened a second time.

What genius has a server walk out in the middle of a shift, and then allow him to come back as if nothing had happened?