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Mixed feelings here. Yes, I definitely prefer wait staff with less of the "I want to be your friend!" attitude. But at the same time, I'm not going to stand in
by dreamcompiler 8y ago
Mixed feelings here. Yes, I definitely prefer wait staff with less of the "I want to be your friend!" attitude. But at the same time, I'm not going to stand in line 30 minutes for the privilege of ordering my food and then wait again for a table to open up in a tiny overcrowded dining area, which has become the normal mode at trendy restaurants in every American city -- not just SF.
I'd still rather pay a little more for wait service than be one of the cattle.
- JoeAltmaier 8y agoIn fact I don't call it a restaurant without one. There are three obvious, fundamental traits of a restaurant: 1) they cook the food (including knowing the recipes) 2) the serve the food to your table 3) they do the dishes (including bussing the table) Lets award a potential 3 points to a food establishment for this 'litmus test'. McD's of course gets only 1 point (they cook the food). Hardly a restaurant experience, no surprise there. Your corner bar and grill gets all three points: they have a server and bus tables. And even a burger or frozen pizza counts as 'cook the food' And so on. Easy! And I'll just leave you with this, my least favorite lunch place of all: Subway. They get Zero (0) points. Not really a restaurant at all. Just a place to store ingredients for you to come and put together yourself, for outrageous prices.
- 8xde0wcNwpslOw 8y agoYou're being a bit harsh on Subway, and maybe rating them on a completely wrong scale. A salad bar in a grocery store literally makes you put your food together, and not at altogether cheaper price compared to Subway.
- paulie_a 8y agoIt might be the same price but you don't have to eat Subway.