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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: nopoop on May 29, 2004, 08:31:23 PM
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Have you ever noticed when you go out to dinner. A place where soup and salad are served before the main course..
That they bring your salad in this wittle nine inch plate piled high with stuff and a big glob of dressing on top ??
HOW ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO TOSS IT UP ??
You can't, your reduced to pushing it around while the edges drop off on the table. If mixed well, you have more on the table then on the wittle plate.
Is there a law somewhere that prohibits resturants supplying a plate of sufficient diameter ??
Why not a bowl ??
"Would you like something with that ??"
"Yes give me a coddam big bowl so I can play with it without decorating the whole fuggin table with garbonzo beans for cripes sakes.."
AND WHAT'S WITH THE BEETS ?? I have known ONE person in my entire life that likes them. But there one is, every place I have been, right in the middle of the gob of dressing..
Is there a lobby for beets someplace ?? "I'm sorry Mr. Poop if you open a resturant you are required by law to put a slice of beet on ANY salad you serve. I'm sorry but it's a rule.."
Is there a fine if they don't ?? Is it a Senate passed pork bill for the state with the most beets ???
"Hold the beet's" is the first thing out of my mouth after thousand island.. All though over the years it comes out more like "thousandislandholdthebeets"
Tomorrow will talk about the tiny bowls the soup comes in..
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I have had radishes in my salad but not beets. I likem both but beets in a salad doesnt sound right.
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Why not ask for the dressing on the side?
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LOL, I get where you're coming from nopoop. When I go out to eat sometimes, I get all jacked out of shape when they bring the different courses in like 1 plate and rest in 3 or 4 different tiny bowls, and a saucer plate with the bread on it. Why in the world can't they just put everything on the one plate except maybe the bread.
And when I do ask them to put everything on the same plate they get all huffy, puffy and whine about it. LOL!
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Radishes are cool. Gives good color against a clear plate. Most resturants have clear ones, displays well..
Don't be pushin my buttons DL. Are you suggesting having my dressing as a DIP on the side ???
You get a fork full of salad and sorta dip it ??
So in a sense I'm dipping for the lack of a decent sized plate ??
"Yes could I have a small bowl of dressing on the side. Being that the plate you supplied is of insufficient diameter to mix the ingrediants ??"
WHAAAAAASUPWITTHAT ??
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Wow , your restaurant has plates? Aren't we 'mister high fallootin fancy pants'. at least nothin was movin. :eek:
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Why not just stay home and make your own dang rabbit food the way you like it... u ol' sandle wearing dirt munchin tree huggin bunny kisser! You'ld rather go out and pay for the abuse than stay here and get it for free?!
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..VWE called me bad names
I have quite a file on you mister. Are you not also known as the "Garbonzo King" ???
Hmmmm ??
Funny how everything ties together when one has all the information..
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LMAO! :rofl
Don't know how many times I've sat there eating my saucer of salad thinking the same thing... hehehe.
BTW poop did you read my last post on the SS thread? If not.. do. :)
PS... The sad thing is when I get a saucer of salad I get 5 packs of crackers but when I actually get a huge bowl of salad they bring 1-2 packs.
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I think they should just get rid of the salad altogether.
Salad ain't food. Salad is what food eats.
:D
RTR
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They let you in a restaurant nopoop? Who'd you borry shoe's from? :)
IKON
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LOL Poopster!
Summed up most of my resturant frustrations.
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Originally posted by nopoop
HOW ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO TOSS IT UP ??
I'll whisper in your ear next time I see you. Oh wait, you said UP not OFF. Never mind...
Which restaurant are you talking about, Poopie? In America, I like the places where there's a long salad bar, and you compose your own salad the way you want it. Perspex screen to stop people coughing germs onto the salad, and I've even seen the busboy with a spray bottle wiping it off. OTOH, if you're talking about chains like Red Lobster, I feel your pain.
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mmmmm pickled beets, yummy! And I can live with small plates, but would like to fling ketchup bottles at the heads of inept wait staff who hear "ranch" when I say "french."
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Beets in a salad??
Where are you dining, Kosovo?
:)
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I have this problem with restaurants:
I usually go quite hungry, and thirsty, to restaurants.
I order my food, I order my drink -blip- the drink is on the table.
Then there's the wait for the food.
Ah, finally the food is here! But, wait! I have no drink left!
Are we expected to look at our drink while waiting in an eternity for the food? And I'm a cheap mofo too, I'm not falling for that "want another drink, sir?" trap either.
They're after my money!
But, being one of the sharpest knives in the drawer, I have thought out a plan to combat the problem:
"Could you please bring my drink when the meal is ready?"
The look I got from the waiter made me feel like a six year old at a university lecture.
I find that waiters are quite protective and anal about their preferred way of doing things. Such rigidity!
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And yes, poop is my hero.
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OK guys, here's a tip from a chef-restaurant owner (me) :
Choose a restaurant you really like and become a "regular" When the server greets you, take a few minutes to explain your likes and dislikes...it helps the server do his/her job better. If something isn't to your liking, speak up. The server's job is to make you happy. When you're done, get the servers name and leave a 20% tip. The next time you return, call ahead for reservations and request the server you last had wait on you. You'll soon be treated like a king and the server will know you like the back of his hand.
DmdMax
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Good advise Dmax. I don't go out to dinner all that much, I hit my favorite food hole with my lady about once a month. The owner has been cooking prime rib for 40 years in my town at one resturant or another over time and finally purchased his own about 8 years ago. Needless to say it's a good meal. His creamed spinich is...well unbelievable. Really.
When I go out to dinner, I go out to have a good time, besides filling my belly. The people that serve me are the people I have a good time with. From the bartender, the bus boy to the server. Those are the people I interact with, they are the people I have a good time with.
It amazes me the amount of people that treat those that try to make their stay enjoyable as if they were a servant or in some cases a slave. A way to "get back at the world" for the miserable week they had.
I'm a child of the sixties and my warped sense of humor comes from that era. The only time I go back now to my "roots" is just before I go out to dinner :D
..I have a good time, everyone is glad to see us. We get the best table regardless of how many are waiting. I know all the servers on a first name basis, they're guarenteed a laugh or two when the "poops" show up. For most of them serving is their second job of the day..
I have two cheep draft beers waiting at the table when we're seated ( jodgi take note ) and another served with dinner. I don't ask, they know.
When we leave those that served us aren't saying "Jeez I'm glad they're gone". They had a good time. As it should be. My tip is around 35%. Which just might help ;)
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Originally posted by nopoop
It amazes me the amount of people that treat those that try to make their stay enjoyable as if they were a servant or in some cases a slave. A way to "get back at the world" for the miserable week they had.
and it happens a lot nopoop. Couples who come in and have a fight, or folks who've had to much to drink...or some folks who are just plain & simple *******s. Servers work hard for their' income...90% of it comes from tips as restaurants only pay them half the minimum wage as a base wage.
DmdMax
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Hey DMax, did them guys that eat at all the restaurants in VT, ( from VPT) ever go to your place?
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Hmmmm...
I guess I'll just try to be funnier next time.
Don't believe everything you read.
:/
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I love beets. Its one of the few vegitables I do like along with broccoli, lettuce,colifower. freash carrots. and a few "Protect the children from Chan 1" whiners .But thats another tread LOL
But I dont ever recall having beets served with my salad.
I suspect it may be a conspiracy nopoop
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Nopoop you should write a book called a salad tossers guide to dining out...
-IKON runs and ducks for cover-
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Dmax - does your restaurant have a website, or do you have pics? Always interested to see how folks live...
I was in VT during a 10 day tour of New England. VT was my favourite of the 6 N.E. states. Well NH was nice too. It's a lot like the area around the Austria/Italy border - Dolomite region.
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here ya go beetle...
http://www.princeandpauper.com
Please, no live ammo allowed insid:)
DmdMax
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You're killin' me Max. I was fine till I read your menu, now I've GOT to go eat something. :p
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Originally posted by DMax
here ya go beetle...
http://www.princeandpauper.com
Please, no live ammo allowed insid:)
DmdMax
Nice looking place! Nice menu too.
I looked up Woodstock in my R.M. road atlas and saw that I passed that way on that trip I mentioned. We stayed at Rutland.
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and who the heck puts pickles on burgers, although we call them gerkins
wipass
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Jeez, poop, 35%?
I'll come wait on ya for that kind of tip!:D
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All I saw was "Nopoop" and "Tossing Salad" and refused to read the rest of the post.
:eek:
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OK guys, here's a tip from a chef-restaurant owner (me) :
Problem here DMax is nocrapper is eatin at Western Sizzler and his wait staff will be all new each time he goes in...
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I hear ya VWE, is why yer better off at a locaindependent joint.