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Jenise
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Tue Mar 21, 2006 2:45 pm
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Redwinger
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Bob Henrick
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Jenise wrote:Six friends dined at the hippest, chic-est restaurant in White Rock, B.C. last Wednesday night, Pearl. They ordered a bottle of wine. The waitress brought the bottle and proceeded to dump giant pours into each glass, emptying the bottle after three glasses. To the fourth guy she said, "Guess you'll have to order another."
Jenise
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Redwinger wrote:If she did that to me, she'd have to look for a gratuity from another table. Inexcusable, and her flip comment was waaay inappropriate.
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Jenise
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Tue Mar 21, 2006 2:45 pm
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Bob Henrick wrote:Jenise, do you know what the reaction of the diners were? Actually I am at a loss to even have an idea of what I would have done. If this were an expensive bottle, I might would have though to have shared the glasses poured with the 4th person, and then asked for the manager. Or maybe asked for the manager then with him/her present have shared. As you and many others here know that I am not particularly shy about voicing an opinion, but this one may have stunned me to silence...for a while.
Jenise
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Tue Mar 21, 2006 2:45 pm
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Covert wrote:Jenise,
Wasn't anybody watching the waitress? They try to do that to us all the time but Lynn is waiting like a cat to pounce. The second it apparent that the pour might go on, she shouts "Stop!" with an accompanying "cut" gesture, then continues gently with a smile that we like small pours, as if it is our idiosyncrasy, and will pour our own from that point.
The only instance I can think of to challenge the ineptitude you relate was the waitress who poured Lynn a glass of red wine and then with the butt of the bottle knocked the glass into her lap. White dress.
Covert
Jenise wrote:Ouch! You remind me of something that happened to us not that long ago, within the past year maybe...wine dinner in a restuarant, lots of interesting bottles. Our young male waiter attempted to top up glasses with a new and different bottle of wine than what was in them. And he knew they were different--just had no idea that would be a problem!
Jenise
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Bernard Roth wrote:After the first glass was being filled, the diners should have seen what was coming. They have a responsibility to themselves that outweighs deference to the server. They should have stopped the server during the first pour and directed the proper amount per glass. Since they let this go on for 3 glasses, they got what they deserved.
Jenise wrote:My friends surmised that it was her first day on the job with zero training, but they didn't get that confirmed.
Jenise
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Nathan Smyth wrote:Jenise wrote:My friends surmised that it was her first day on the job with zero training, but they didn't get that confirmed.
This sounds like the sort of situation where forgiveness might be called for.
Gary Barlettano
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Wed Mar 29, 2006 5:50 pm
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Jenise wrote:Nathan Smyth wrote:Jenise wrote:My friends surmised that it was her first day on the job with zero training, but they didn't get that confirmed.
This sounds like the sort of situation where forgiveness might be called for.
Well, of course; she was neither trained nor possessing common sense and that's a management problem. But it was still funny.
Sam Platt
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Jenise
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Bernard Roth wrote:Why did your friends bite their tongues and sit on their hands?
It's not like it is the end of the world.
Bill Spohn
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