Sucky Waitress

[HappyFun Ball]

I very rarely complain about service.. A person has to be pretty damned bad for me to complain.

I like going to this hamburger and milkshake restaurant, there just isn't one near me, so when we go visit my in laws, we go to one not too far from them. I hadn't been feeling that great all day so after visiting, I took one of my pain pills for a migraine and they tend to dry me out.

We sit down and I look over the menu, it wasn't busy there it was my table and maybe 2 others. The server comes over and takes our drink order, brings the drinks and leaves for a few minutes and comes back and take our order. I drank all my tea and look for the server, she is at another table with 4 guys, and she is just standing there talking, she was facing me, and I know she saw me as she kept looking up at me.

I tried not to stare at her and looked around and I can see our food in the window. I wait, she is still talking to these guys, posing herself in a flirty way, I resist the urge to talk to a manager and wait. 10 minutes later she finally stops flirting and gets our food, it wasn't cold so I didn't say anything.

We eat and want to order milkshakes to go, the waitress is back over at the table of guys talking, she stops talking to get them refills and as she passes by my husband flags her down, he orders his shake and the waitress starts to walk off as soon as he ordered it without even looking at me, he caught her before she managed to get off and I ordered mine.

We wait, and she's back over at the guy table talking, 15 minutes pass and I just know those milkshakes are sitting in the window melting. That's it! I get up and start walking toward the register and the manager looks at the server and says "You have shakes up.", I get to the manager and say "You need to tell her she needs to pay attention to all her tables and not just the ones she's flirting with.".

I get back to the table and the shakes are there, but in a glass when we asked for them to go, I'm getting more and more upset because it'll take her 15 minutes to quit flirting and get us to go cups, so my husband goes to the cash register and gets cups and pays.

As we were getting into the car, the manger comes out and apologizes and tells us that that server does that all the time and is about to be fired and she hands me a stack of coupons

[marasbaras]

That sucks. At least the manager made good.

[Becks]

The manager made amends. I can't say that he made good because he admitted that the waitress has that habit, he's aware of it and he hasn't done anything about it at the time.

Anyone wanna bet she's still working there?

[Crazeyal]

Good for you. People like that give service workers a bad name.

[Zipporah]

Why did she still work there if the manager knew about her behavior? I have worked with co-workers who only chat or flirt with each other, and they usually don't stay at that job for long.

[fma_fanatic]

Please...please tell me that this place has the initials of J.R.

Please. Because I have yet to get my food from there without the waitresses flirting with my SO or them dancing to some stupid dance routine while I'm either waitint for my food or trying to pay for my meal.

I walked out the last time they started the dancing crap and my food was sitting on the window, waiting (yeah, I know bad me, but come on! serve the people first then you can entertain!); I knew it because I was the only other table being served. The people at the other table were done with their meal and waiting for their bill.

The manager of the restaurant ran after me and wanted to know why I'd left. I told her that if I'd wanted to be entertained while I ate, I'd have gone to the movie theater next door to the restaurant - it was in a mall.

[marasbaras]

I've never walked out on food I've ordered before. Come close ... but, man, some stupid dance routine? I might eat and leave. Have fun dancing. Do it on your OWN damned time, girly.

[CanadaGirl]

I've never walked out on food I've ordered before. Come close ... but, man, some stupid dance routine? I might eat and leave. Have fun dancing. Do it on your OWN damned time, girly.

Thats, uh, theft you know.

[fma_fanatic]

Theft how?

The server took my order, then left me hanging. The manager didn't do squat. If I'd "stolen" anything, then why didn't she have the mall police with her?

No. Not theft. If I'd skipped on the check after I'd gotten my food, then yes, that is theft.

Are you saying I should pay for poor service and a manager who can't seem to convey to the staff that serving customers should come first, then entertain? Yeah, call me sucky if you want, but I really didn't think it was fair to let my food get cold and be ignored.

[blas]

I feel for you. The Olive Garden used to be a great place to eat around here. Now, every little slutty 14 year old whore works there, and they make their money, I tell you what. Any guests that include men (doesn't matter if they are young or old), around them, they work their "magic". It's patheitc to see little flat chested stick figures with way too much makeup (and I wear a lot of makeup, so you can only imagine how much they have on!) walking around the restaurant like it's a runway for a fashion show, without their ties, their shirts unbuttoned, revealing non existent cleavage, and super tight black pants to show off a non existent butt. And yet my boyfriend just loves to go there.

Working poor people like me go there to get a better than normal meal. Instead, all you hear around the restaurant is pre-pubescent giggles the entire meal, "Heehehehehehehahahahahah!" and not a one of those little whores has a vocabulary of more than "Like" and "Um", and when they aren't entertaining people's boyfriends or husbands, they gather at the server station and whisper secrets like 5 year olds.

I swear, the local Olive Garden is a whore house for human trafficking of underage girls.

Sorry for the rant....I just remember a time when I used to frequent there with my family or dates, and the people who worked there wore their uniforms properly and conducted themselves in a professional manner and got their tips because they were friendly, relatable, and treated you like family, not Johns.

[ThePhoneGoddess]

Theft how?

CanadaGirl was referring to marasbaras' post, not yours. That's why she quoted it.