Food and Drink

Last night Carie and I drove with Carie’s sister Jessica to Enfield Ct. where Carie’s dad Tom is staying for the week because of work.  We took the opportunity to go to the Olive Garden, and enjoy an amazing meal.  I was hungry.
One of the more interesting things that happened while we were there happened with Jessica.  She’s a waitress at Via’s Italian Table in Worcester, and so she’s very particular when she goes into another restaurant.  During the course of the evening, she ordered 4 different drinks (not just at Olive Garden, but also at Starbucks):
Red Wine
Bottled water
Cappacino
Cappacino

As you can imagine, her bill was up there, but on to the point of the story.
First of all, our waitress was new and there were some pretty awkward moments throughout the evening.  Like we would ask her a question and she wouldn’t know the answer (this happened several times), or we would ask her for something and she would forget (this happened two times).

I didn’t mind so much, but the last straw for Jessica was when her cappacino didn’t have any foam.  yes feel free to read that sentence again.  No Cappacino.  As you probably know, there are worse things to happen in life and we all had a laugh at the expense of Jessica because it appeared she was taking this personal.  Later on we had to go to Starbucks in order to get a real Cappacino with foam!

I write all this because it makes me think about how much I have as an American, and how I need to treat people who serve me in some way with respect.  I know I’m paying for service, but bad servers not withstanding, I need to treat everyone I come across like I would want to be treated.

Serve first, eat second.

Check out this post.

Related posts:

1. How 5 guys got free food at 5 Guys
2. 5 ways to not drink Kool-aid