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> <channel><title>Comments on: An open letter to our wait-staff from last night</title> <atom:link href="http://retrohack.com/an-open-letter-to-our-wait-staff-from-last-night/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://retrohack.com/an-open-letter-to-our-wait-staff-from-last-night/</link> <description>lest the tubes become overfull</description> <lastBuildDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 22:46:35 +0000</lastBuildDate> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=</generator> <item><title>By: Gabriel Novo</title><link>http://retrohack.com/an-open-letter-to-our-wait-staff-from-last-night/comment-page-1/#comment-399</link> <dc:creator>Gabriel Novo</dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 03:44:30 +0000</pubDate> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://retrohack.com/an-open-letter-to-our-wait-staff-from-last-night/#comment-399</guid> <description>For a couple of months when I was in Charlotte it felt like I had been cursed by the food gods.  EVERY place I went to screwed up my order so much that I didn&#039;t pay for eating out the entire time.  Granted, I was upset, unsatisfied and tired of having &quot;chats&quot; with managers, but at least it didn&#039;t hit the pocketbook.What amazed me (and like Dave C wrote) was the lack of common sense.  50 cent can of Coke or a comped meal? Hmm.. let me think.  Specifically with point 8, I&#039;ve had meals that were barely untouched because they were so shitty and the waiter looked at me with a blank stare.  Didn&#039;t ask if the meal was ok, just picked it up and went on his way.  How thick do you have to be to completely ignore a visual cue like that?  Sad thing is that it happens quite often.  Makes me wonder what kind of training these folks are getting.</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For a couple of months when I was in Charlotte it felt like I had been cursed by the food gods.  EVERY place I went to screwed up my order so much that I didn&#8217;t pay for eating out the entire time.  Granted, I was upset, unsatisfied and tired of having &#8220;chats&#8221; with managers, but at least it didn&#8217;t hit the pocketbook.</p><p>What amazed me (and like Dave C wrote) was the lack of common sense.  50 cent can of Coke or a comped meal? Hmm.. let me think.  Specifically with point 8, I&#8217;ve had meals that were barely untouched because they were so shitty and the waiter looked at me with a blank stare.  Didn&#8217;t ask if the meal was ok, just picked it up and went on his way.  How thick do you have to be to completely ignore a visual cue like that?  Sad thing is that it happens quite often.  Makes me wonder what kind of training these folks are getting.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: Ed Fisher</title><link>http://retrohack.com/an-open-letter-to-our-wait-staff-from-last-night/comment-page-1/#comment-398</link> <dc:creator>Ed Fisher</dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 22:49:32 +0000</pubDate> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://retrohack.com/an-open-letter-to-our-wait-staff-from-last-night/#comment-398</guid> <description>Great story! Thanks for sharing.</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Great story! Thanks for sharing.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: Dave C</title><link>http://retrohack.com/an-open-letter-to-our-wait-staff-from-last-night/comment-page-1/#comment-397</link> <dc:creator>Dave C</dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 22:13:19 +0000</pubDate> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://retrohack.com/an-open-letter-to-our-wait-staff-from-last-night/#comment-397</guid> <description>Good take on the troubles of finding good wait-staff help. And  add to this, I have had some of the best wait-Staff experiances. They account for most of the profession. So this is not to bash the food industry. So I digressHow about the bone head that tells you &quot; Sorry Mama, we are out of Coke&quot;. At 6 Pm on a Sat night ????? so I ask him in a very polite but gutteral voice, &quot; well can some one please find some, maybe at the very large Lowes Food store that shares the common firewall with you ??&quot;So he looks at me and Says &quot; Well if you realy think I need too&quot;o_0 WTF !!!!!!!!!With a gaping mouth wide open and twitching left eye o_0, I can&#039;t beieve what I&#039;m hearing. So I pull him closer to me and say &quot; What do think, should I go get it my self then tell the manager to write off my wife&#039;s dinner over a can of Coke. Hmmmmm &quot;Then he looks back at me and says &quot; I did&#039;nt think of it that way &quot; and walks off.Needless to say Margaret got her can of coke and when he brought it to the table he did have a cold glass for Her.Just Kill Me !!!!!</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Good take on the troubles of finding good wait-staff help. And  add to this, I have had some of the best wait-Staff experiances. They account for most of the profession. So this is not to bash the food industry. So I digress</p><p>How about the bone head that tells you &#8221; Sorry Mama, we are out of Coke&#8221;. At 6 Pm on a Sat night ????? so I ask him in a very polite but gutteral voice, &#8221; well can some one please find some, maybe at the very large Lowes Food store that shares the common firewall with you ??&#8221;</p><p>So he looks at me and Says &#8221; Well if you realy think I need too&#8221;</p><p>o_0 WTF !!!!!!!!!</p><p>With a gaping mouth wide open and twitching left eye o_0, I can&#8217;t beieve what I&#8217;m hearing. So I pull him closer to me and say &#8221; What do think, should I go get it my self then tell the manager to write off my wife&#8217;s dinner over a can of Coke. Hmmmmm &#8221;</p><p>Then he looks back at me and says &#8221; I did&#8217;nt think of it that way &#8221; and walks off.</p><p>Needless to say Margaret got her can of coke and when he brought it to the table he did have a cold glass for Her.</p><p>Just Kill Me !!!!!</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: Gabriel Novo</title><link>http://retrohack.com/an-open-letter-to-our-wait-staff-from-last-night/comment-page-1/#comment-639</link> <dc:creator>Gabriel Novo</dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 16:23:36 +0000</pubDate> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://retrohack.com/an-open-letter-to-our-wait-staff-from-last-night/#comment-639</guid> <description>&lt;span class=&quot;topsy_trackback_comment&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;topsy_twitter_username&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;topsy_trackback_content&quot;&gt;Painfully true RT @retrohack An open letter to our wait-staff from last night http://bit.ly/bwi6tY&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span
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