7 Things You Wanna Know About Waiters

Published on Monday, February 14, 2011, by Joyce Slaton / Edit Post

I like to troll the Chowhound boards when I'm looking for something to write about for this blog. The Not About Food board is currently jammed with posts complaining or asking about about service quirks. To wit:

• Is it rude when servers make comments on how much diners ate?
• Should servers at ethnic restaurants be the same ethnicity as the food they're serving?

• Does it matter if servers are cute and/or clean?
• How should you order drinks to keep a bartender happy?
• Is it gross to touch money and then food?
• Do you get uncomfortable when servers share personal details of their lives?
• Should servers inform you if a function's bar is no-host?

Looks to me like a lot of people went out over the weekend and had bad experiences!

By the way, if you want my (random, not particularly expert) opinions on the subjects, they're: yes, no but I get why it's weird, yes, who cares, yes, yes, and no but I sure would feel like a tool if I didn't know beforehand.

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  • Looks like CHOW needs some fresh talent.

  • agreed, soupsample.

  • @amyzan - it doesn't matter when the thread started, but when it was last posted in. i think all those threads are recently active

  • Weak - agree with KaimukiMan - almost as bad as the RuBo stuff - last few months of CHOW generated "content" is all downhill

  • as a bartender/server, this was beyond lame.

  • One of those threads originated in February of 2009. Not only is the writer lazy, she is sloppy. Some of the posters went out two years ago, not last weekend. Yeesh.

  • so taking threads that chowhounds have debated and giving glib and one word answers is supposed to be informative or entertaining? That was 45 seconds I'll never get back.

  • Many of the above questions often denote the dismal I.Q. and or insecurities of the person doing the asking.