Pepper and Wine
Why do waiters at restaurants ask if you want ground pepper on your food before you have had a single bite? Didn't the chef put any spices in the food or check the food before it was served?
An even more stupid thing; how come when you order a bottle of wine the waiter asks you to taste the wine? It's not like you be will allowed to order something else if you don't like it ("I don't like the fruitiness of this Pino Grigio, can I please have a drier one?"). The reason is that the wine might for some reason be off. But why would I like to ruin an expensive meal by having a sip of a potentially disgusting (say corked) wine? The solution is simple. Ask the waiter to try the wine to protect yourself from any unpleasant surprises!
posted by lotek at 4:20 PM
2 Comments:
the pepper (and cheese) is an attempt to try to act like a 'proper' restaurant, but since the waiters are, for a lack of better word, 'lazy', they do everything at once when they bring your food - instead of acting like real waiters (hovering in the background, noticing if everything is fine and acting upon it, without you having to call them over)
now, the wine thing - you can indeed, send it back. or complain that this is not a nice instance of whatever fancy grapejuice you ordered and demand a different bottle. but most customers are too embarrassed to do that (or unsure about their tasting abilities), so you don't see that very often. again, this is in most cases an attempt to make the place look like a high quality restaurant.
wow, a restaurant rant... geez
2:35 AM
You can send it back, yes, but only as you say "this is not a nice instance of whatever fancy grapejuice you ordered and demand a different bottle". How do you know that it is not a nice instance? Because it tastes bad! :-)
12:04 PM
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