greg334
Veteran Expediter
I don’t have much sympathy for waiters/waitress’ unless they serve me well (take it as you will) and if they expect a tip, I won’t give it on the merits that they took my order but have to deliver but that is my restaurant up bringing – sorry.
Well anyway, this is where I sympathize with every waiter/waitress – kids in restaurants.
Here is a really interesting article, I recommend reading the comments too.
http://tinyurl.com/2ctm62
When I was professionally ‘babysitter’, I was forced to bring kids to restaurants as part of the program I was involved with, like the other pro’s. I think it was to see if we would have a nervous breakdown when the kids misbehaved but a few of us decided the best thing to do was to make sure that the kids had some incentive to behave, we found their favorite toy(s), we took them and told them they would get it back if we had no problems – cruel? I guess but we never had to deal with problems that most parents had to deal with.
Well since I grew out of the stage of being a pro as a patron of some of the better restaurants, my wife and I used to go out to places that really didn’t have a lot of kids but we have had our share of putting up with cr*p because of lazy (stupid) parents.
The stories are numerous, but the first prize goes to having a kid take food off of my plate and when I told the manager I refused to pay for it and he presented the bill to the parents, I was told that the parents weren’t going to pay for the food that their kid just desecrated. I almost got arrested that night for screaming obscenities at the parents and the kids (I didn’t know I knew that many words and I hope the kids repeat all of them).
Then the parents who let their kids run around agitating others while they are talking is closely followed by the screechers of a nearby table and that is followed by the kid who throws food or spits it at people (yes I seen this a bunch of times, one time I watched one kid running around IHop one day spitting on people until one old man stopped the kid dead in his tracks by hitting him with a cane on his a** really hard)
The grand prize is sitting in a rather respectable place, having just served a prime rib that was roasted just perfect (MMMMM) with a couple and two kids sitting across from us who was making a fuss because they could not entertain the kids well enough. The kids were not the problem, the problem came when the girl stood up, moved her appetizer over to the other table and plopped the kid on the table and changed a really stinky diaper while I and others was trying to eat. She was unaffected by the all the fuss like she had a right to ruin our dinner, no parent has any right to do something this offensive to the patrons of the place. I absolutely lost it, yelling for the manager in unison with several others and we all refused to pay for our meals. The manager there did the right thing and comp all of us but I can’t eat prime rib anymore, I should have sued the couple for emotional distress.
Well anyway, this is where I sympathize with every waiter/waitress – kids in restaurants.
Here is a really interesting article, I recommend reading the comments too.
http://tinyurl.com/2ctm62
When I was professionally ‘babysitter’, I was forced to bring kids to restaurants as part of the program I was involved with, like the other pro’s. I think it was to see if we would have a nervous breakdown when the kids misbehaved but a few of us decided the best thing to do was to make sure that the kids had some incentive to behave, we found their favorite toy(s), we took them and told them they would get it back if we had no problems – cruel? I guess but we never had to deal with problems that most parents had to deal with.
Well since I grew out of the stage of being a pro as a patron of some of the better restaurants, my wife and I used to go out to places that really didn’t have a lot of kids but we have had our share of putting up with cr*p because of lazy (stupid) parents.
The stories are numerous, but the first prize goes to having a kid take food off of my plate and when I told the manager I refused to pay for it and he presented the bill to the parents, I was told that the parents weren’t going to pay for the food that their kid just desecrated. I almost got arrested that night for screaming obscenities at the parents and the kids (I didn’t know I knew that many words and I hope the kids repeat all of them).
Then the parents who let their kids run around agitating others while they are talking is closely followed by the screechers of a nearby table and that is followed by the kid who throws food or spits it at people (yes I seen this a bunch of times, one time I watched one kid running around IHop one day spitting on people until one old man stopped the kid dead in his tracks by hitting him with a cane on his a** really hard)
The grand prize is sitting in a rather respectable place, having just served a prime rib that was roasted just perfect (MMMMM) with a couple and two kids sitting across from us who was making a fuss because they could not entertain the kids well enough. The kids were not the problem, the problem came when the girl stood up, moved her appetizer over to the other table and plopped the kid on the table and changed a really stinky diaper while I and others was trying to eat. She was unaffected by the all the fuss like she had a right to ruin our dinner, no parent has any right to do something this offensive to the patrons of the place. I absolutely lost it, yelling for the manager in unison with several others and we all refused to pay for our meals. The manager there did the right thing and comp all of us but I can’t eat prime rib anymore, I should have sued the couple for emotional distress.
