Lunch on Sunday

[fireflykid]

Or: Lester Bangs Was Not Last of the White Niggers

Las Margaritas is a nice, nearby Mexican restaurant we like to frequent.  The food isn’t necessarily stand out, but for Americanized Latin fare it’s a good, sturdy value.  The service is always efficient and courteous; I’ve never had a bad meal there, or bad service.

Today Perry and I went to lunch

Comments

[terrible_greg]

Good lord. I don't even know where to begin. I guess I'll start here: working in the retail service industry, I am never rude to waitstaff anywhere. Fast food, the Mexican places, Applebee's, whatever-- I try to be nice and understanding, even if it's undeserved and I really am getting terrible service. (In those cases, I'll be short but polite and stiff the waiter*, alas

[fireflykid]

I can normally tolerate crap service in a restaurant, because I only go out with people whose company I enjoy. It's more time to talk, and something to talk about. But the thing with these people...the service wasn't bad. At all. They were just demanding and overbearing. It's unacceptable. And they fact that they had SEVEN children with them, and are setting THAT kind of example for them, that's abominable.

I don't understand why people go to a full service restaurant when they are in a hurry, or in a bad mood. Stay home! Order in! Don't subject the rest of society to your misery...that's what the Internet is for!

And I bet you these people will go and tell all their friends how TERRIBLE the service was. And they’ll be believed, because the customer is always right. Well, to quote another Kevin Smith movie, “The customer is always an ASSHOLE.”

[jagreen79]

The upswing there, of course, is that they were probably socked with the automatic 18%-or-so gratuity for a large party.

[fireflykid]

Good point. Next time I eat there I'm checking the menu for that policy...!