This happens alot, say you go into a restaurant or some place to eat, and the server is busy bussing plates and so forth to help out the bussers (or there may be no busboys at that hour) they grab the plates, forks, spoons, cups, all on the dirty end where the customer put their mouth on and then come back with your drink or food using the same dirty hands. I understand they can get overwhelmingly busy but these items below rub me the wrong way a little:
1) they have my plate of hot food from the window, and they dont directly come drop it off to me. they make a few stops here and there, other tables, chit chat, pick up dirty utensils and plates stack them on the tray next to my food, other people talk to them over the food chit chat chit chat, saliva goes aerosoling everywhere over my food, and then after 5 minutes they drop it off to me.
2) they wipe down (usually bus boys do this and i understand they are busy as well) the tables chairs where others asses have sat, baby spit and food everywhere, (i saw one guy clean the floor up of spilled something, and then go back to the table to wipe it down with the same rag) and use that rag to wipe down your table.
3)bread baskets. appetizer baskets. they dont clean them. dirty hands touch them. they reuse them put bread in there bring it back to your table and you see little dried marinara sauce or something on the baskets from the leftover crud of previous dinees.
4) old carpet near your table. near walkways and busy intersections. these places have heavy traffic and the stepping can cause lint to go up in to the air and around you. usually old carpet is more readily lint provoked
5) do you use the open complementary condiments on your table like the tin of parmesan cheez? or the chili oil? these are open access on your table and who knows which juvenile loogied into there and that is why one of the parm chees is lumped.
I dont usually complain about these items but just more out of (again) social convo here i mention these things because it is fun and nice.
how do you take this sort of thing and how do you handle it if is an issue to you?
1) they have my plate of hot food from the window, and they dont directly come drop it off to me. they make a few stops here and there, other tables, chit chat, pick up dirty utensils and plates stack them on the tray next to my food, other people talk to them over the food chit chat chit chat, saliva goes aerosoling everywhere over my food, and then after 5 minutes they drop it off to me.
2) they wipe down (usually bus boys do this and i understand they are busy as well) the tables chairs where others asses have sat, baby spit and food everywhere, (i saw one guy clean the floor up of spilled something, and then go back to the table to wipe it down with the same rag) and use that rag to wipe down your table.
3)bread baskets. appetizer baskets. they dont clean them. dirty hands touch them. they reuse them put bread in there bring it back to your table and you see little dried marinara sauce or something on the baskets from the leftover crud of previous dinees.
4) old carpet near your table. near walkways and busy intersections. these places have heavy traffic and the stepping can cause lint to go up in to the air and around you. usually old carpet is more readily lint provoked
5) do you use the open complementary condiments on your table like the tin of parmesan cheez? or the chili oil? these are open access on your table and who knows which juvenile loogied into there and that is why one of the parm chees is lumped.
I dont usually complain about these items but just more out of (again) social convo here i mention these things because it is fun and nice.
how do you take this sort of thing and how do you handle it if is an issue to you?
