This has been bugging me for quite a while. Everytime I do a 'banqueting' event I see something that drives me mad.
The venues get a full list of who is having what and what table they are on. They seem to nominally assign one or two waiters to each table. So why don't they put the two together? That way they could say "Andrew, you have table 1, you need 2 duck; 1 chicken;1 veg tart. Then get to the table and saying "right, who is having the chicken" still happens but at least they have an approximate idea of what they are going to need and I would think would be quicker to get everyone served and sorted.
Instead its a nightmare of waiters leaning over everyone going "chicken? chicken?" and wandering around about 4-6 tables with every other plate and taking 30+ minutes to actually get everybody their food for that course. In the meantime they are waiving hot plates around my ears, leaning over me and waving food smells under my nose so by the time they actually get food to us and we can eat most of us are feeling ill.
I realise that people will change seats so you can't do that. I realise you might have the occasional person who changes table even if told not to so it won't be perfect.
So what am I missing that makes this so difficult to even try to do?
FYI - I should point out that I do have crowd phobia and small space phobia so I realise that some people won't have as much trouble with plates hovering around ear level or being leaned over. However for me I want to bolt when it happens.
The venues get a full list of who is having what and what table they are on. They seem to nominally assign one or two waiters to each table. So why don't they put the two together? That way they could say "Andrew, you have table 1, you need 2 duck; 1 chicken;1 veg tart. Then get to the table and saying "right, who is having the chicken" still happens but at least they have an approximate idea of what they are going to need and I would think would be quicker to get everyone served and sorted.
Instead its a nightmare of waiters leaning over everyone going "chicken? chicken?" and wandering around about 4-6 tables with every other plate and taking 30+ minutes to actually get everybody their food for that course. In the meantime they are waiving hot plates around my ears, leaning over me and waving food smells under my nose so by the time they actually get food to us and we can eat most of us are feeling ill.
I realise that people will change seats so you can't do that. I realise you might have the occasional person who changes table even if told not to so it won't be perfect.
So what am I missing that makes this so difficult to even try to do?
FYI - I should point out that I do have crowd phobia and small space phobia so I realise that some people won't have as much trouble with plates hovering around ear level or being leaned over. However for me I want to bolt when it happens.
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