So. Waiter Rant. Kind of like customers_suck, except it's only one person posting ("Waiter"), and it's usually wank-free. Usually.

The waiter that writes the blog recently started working in a new restaurant, and has become . . . slightly bitter. As a result, he posted first "50 Signs You're Working in a Bad Restaurant," then "50 Signs You're an Asshole Customer." The first doesn't garner much attention, but the second . . .

Four hundred comments later, people are still wanking over:

-Whether it's acceptable to bring your own tea (look for Desert Princess, misspelled as Dessert Princess).
-Whether it's acceptable to leave a tip on a credit card that ends in a weird amount ($2.51 on a tab for $10.49).
-If you should tip on takeout.
-If asking about the music is okay.
-Why saying that you're allergic to an ingredient in order to get it taken out of your food is evil.
-How bitter "Waiter" has become.
-What is a 'normal' tip—fifteen or twenty percent.

Namecalling and accusations of elitism abound, and perhaps 1/4 of replies become non-wanky.

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perletwo
2007-03-26 03:36 am UTC (link)

yeah, I thought about the Starbucks point while reading the tea subthread above - for good tea, go to restaurants that cater to tea-drinking cultures like assorted Asian countries, India or the British Isles, because they make/drink tea all day every day.

But using the same logic, why can't most restaurants make even halfway decent coffee? I'm not talking about your half-caf mocha soy chai latte type thing either, just a regular cuppa joe. If that's what we drink all day every day, why's it so hard for most places?

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	gweniveeve 2007-03-26 03:45 am UTC (link)
	Because if it's not a breakfast- or cafe- type place, not very many people order coffee. So the same coffee sits in the pot for awhile, and you get bad coffee, or you have to wait for a bit while someone finds the durn decaf and brews it up. (I worked at a Mexican restaurant, and people very rarely ordered coffee). (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	perletwo 2007-03-26 03:58 am UTC (link)
	I can kinda see that. Some of the best coffee I've found has been in Waffle House-type 24 hour truck stop restaurants. The other best coffee I've had is at a local cafe whose side business is a coffee roaster (the mister cooks and the missus roasts java beans). (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

julesnoctambule
2007-03-26 12:15 pm UTC (link)

Some of the best plain coffee I've ever had was at a WaWa gas station in Virginia. They had several varieties of light and dark roasts, all freshly brewed on a regular schedule. I bought a cup of Sumatra at a gas station! And it was good!

I don't know how people can drink Charbucks' plain brewed coffee, personally; I've never bought anything from them but I've tasted other people's purchases and my god, that stuff is vile. No wonder the liquid candy bars sell so well -- all that flavouring syrup hides the taste of their charred, revolting coffee!

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	splorch 2007-03-26 01:37 pm UTC (link)
	Wawa coffee is truly the nectar of the gods. If I ever move away from the PA/NJ/DE area I am so hosed. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

julesnoctambule
2007-03-26 02:41 pm UTC (link)

I've seen them all over western and southern Virginia; I can't speak for the rest of the country, but you won't be that out of luck if you stick to the east coast.

The quality of their coffee was a pleasant surprise, I have to say. I'd heard from friends that it was good, but I thought they meant 'better than the brown water usually found in such places'-good, not 'damn, that's good coffee'-good.

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	splorch 2007-03-26 03:21 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, I won't go so far as to say I've never had a bad cup of coffee there, but their turnover is so quick that it's always been fresh. I've bought their coffee to use at home and it's been just as good. (Wawavangelism. It's a way of life.) (Reply to this)(Parent)

	aristaea 2007-03-26 07:40 am UTC (link)
	I don't know, though, because a lot of people have coffee after dinner (often decaf), and even at really nice restaurants where coffee is an expected part of the meal it's usually not very good. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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