10 Rude Things Waiters Do To You
12 Dec
There is one person in the world that you usually end up allowing to disturb you while you are eating. This same person is the one that can come in to ask, interrupt, take or bring anything, while you eat and talk to others at your food table. This someone is your waiter. Your waiter, in addition to bringing you a lot of food and drooling, can also bring in a lot of weird habits that fall into the category of being rude to you.
The real job of a waiter is to bring you food, and is to make your food experience a good one so that you can enjoy your food. The existence of tips is one of the reasons many waiters simply focus on a set standard of things aimed to satisfy the typical standards of many restaurants like making sure your water glass is always full, that you have clean plates, and that you are not angry at or with your food at any moment. Such focus has resulted in many waiters not knowing that throwing a plate full of food at you, for you to catch, is not the same as putting the food plate in front of you.
Here are 10 rude things that many waiters do on a regular basis. I notice these trends at so many locations that sometimes I feel I should ask such waiters if they could be featured on my site for bad or rude service.
Ten rude things waiters do to you
- Pour water into your glass by tilting the jug on its side, resulting in water splashes all over you or your table.
- Not help you with your food questions or order if they are not your assigned waiter, but pick up your credit card or cash for payment when you put down your payment on your table. Next time, tell such waiters “Oh no, it’s ok. You did not help me with my crisis of dying in spices without water. I will let my real waiter take care of this and not trouble you at all.”
- Take away your plate if your friend or someone else in your party is still eating, or vice versa.
- Bring you the check very quickly, and repeatedly asking about the payment in different forms just to get you to leave so that a new customer can sit in your place. Like Ponzu in San Francisco telling me and my friends “Anything else before you guys head out?” We were not all guys, and no, we did not want to head out. We wanted to sit there for a while and talk.
- Touch a lot to try to get more tips. More people know about your psychological tactic, now that Bes has told them about it. Touching strangers for pleasure or for money, by trying to make the stranger feel good unconsciously, is perversion, you pervert.
- Touch your plate, glass or spoons and forks all over with bare hands.
- Not pay attention to you when you need help, like when you need a refill of your water glass after you eat something spicy. In my view, unless otherwise noted or told to the customer, a waiter should always keep an eye on the customer in case the customer looks up and around for their waiter. Other waiters should heed to such body language by either helping or by letting the original waiter know about the desperate gazes of the needy, and probably hungry or thirsty, customer. This goes along with point # 2 above.
- Complain or bring up the topic of not getting enough tip from you. Giving a tip is not the law around the planet, and telling a customer that they did something wrong by not tipping enough, in my view, is plain wrong unless there is an actual situation where the customer directly or indirectly promised a tip and then did not tip enough.
- Ask questions while food is in our mouth. This is another tactic used by waiters. When your mouth is full, you may say anything to tell the waiter to get lost so you can chomp down your food, including “Yes, it’s good.” That is why you are always asked a bit-pointed questions. You are asked “Is everything ok?” instead of “I see that your mouth is burning. Is the food too hot?” or “I see that my questions are resulting in your mouth opening so strangely that the teriyaki chicken is falling onto the ground. Should I stop asking you questions till your plate is empty or till you tell me to reappear after disappearing?“
- Giving you too much attention, including asking you about the food or service or your needs and talking to you a lot while you try to focus on eating or while you try to talk to the people you came with.
How does your waiter treat you?
Does your waiter ignore you? Has your waiter given you a shower when refilling your glass of water? Have you been rushed out of a restaurant by an overzealous waiter? Do they give you too much attention? Have you ever said “YES! IT’S GOOD! I’LL TIP YOU REAL GOOD IF YOU GOOOOOO AWAY PLEASE!! :( ” while being interrupted from munching on some very juicy treat that you would be paying $15 for?
Are you a waiter yourself? Have you seen any of the above trends in other waiters or experienced them yourself? Have you engaged in any of the above trends for different reasons?
Please let me know what you think in the comments below. Thanks! :)
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I saw this exact article yesterday on Reddit… or Digg… I forget.
I can’t stand when a waiter doesn’t refill my iced tea. That happens to me a lot.
all the things written is really impressive.
Nice post, so true. lol
This is somewhat funny. I do understand that waiters can be rude, but customers can also be rude and put the waiter in a bad mood. People should just respect each other and not look down at someone just because of the job that they hold, because you never know who you will be working for next. Thanks!
Nice topic.I really agree with you.I have also observed all these 10 things waiters do.Especially the 7th point about filling glasses.It has happened many times with me.
I think if you go into a place looking for something to go wrong or someone to be rude you’ll find it. Be positive. They may hate their job, and the dog just died. think before judging
I’ve had a waiter start yelling at me giving me a hard attitude because some of the food that was given to me wasn’t properly cooked and I asked the waiter to take it back to the kitchen.
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Thing is be kind to your waiter or you end up eating and drinking food laced with sweat and saliva! I’m sure you don’t like that to happen, do you?
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What I hate is they all act like your causing them grief when you ask for something. IT’S YOUR JOB you moron. If you don’t like helping customers, go work in a different trade. Duh!
I work for 15. Years as a waiter all 10 things are ok but i think u never worked as a waiter when u have 2ld ladys an one of them ask u for a coffe and the other one say to u a im ok no thing for me and when u bring that coffe and the other one ask u ooooo waiter can i have a coffe to or she never order but say to the waiter u forgat me aaa so tell me how u feel or a drunk person goes to bathroom and add some stuf to his nose and come over and give u hard time if u want the 10 rooles u have to spend 150$ per person and ok there they watch u ok good bless u all
Number 3 annoys me to no end. A friend of mine used to leave a little portion on his plate for this very reason, in order to finish along with everyone else. He still would have to insist to waiters that he was not quite finished eating. Last week a waiter removed my plate moments after I had placed the last bite in my mouth; I was still holding my utensils and chewing.
eh its easy for you all specially to the poster of such article to criticize us waiter but have you even see the way you people act in a restaurant many costumers think they should be treated like kings and end up ordering cheap things and then complaining to the cashier omg my bill is too high no freaking way seriously wtf if you happen to go out again take enough money to spend and tip because its easy to criticize a waiter but do you even know what we go through with ranchy cheap rude mean angry stupid costumers.
Try going to an authentic Chinese restaurant. I bet you can find 20 rude things that waiters/waitresses do to you.
@Kendra,
I have not found waiters/waitresses to be any more rude at the Chinese restaurants that I go to..
Number 3 has to be the rudest thing they can do, its like they want to flip your table as soon as possible to grab the money from the next customer. They dont realise that this is a short term win as the chances are you wont be coming back yourself and will also spread the word to your friends that the restaurant have a lack of basic manners and not to use it.
Grab the drink from the the rim of the drink.
We dine out not only for food but also for nice service.waits are a part of the service,i think if restaurants want better business they should train their waiters how to serve customers properly.From customers’ point of view I think we should be positive,to look for somwthing good not for bad. Let’s enjoy brett favre jersey and enjoy our life.
i have to disagree with #4, while they should not rush you out the door, sitting at your table and shooting the breeze while there are 5 other groups of people waiting for a table is extremely rude on your part, if you want to talk, do it somewhere else where you arent taking up space, think about it from their perspective, not only are you making other people wait, but your also preventing your waiter from serving the next customer and probably getting another tip, i mean you can talk anywhere…. the thing is that most people dont realize how much complete utter crap waiters put up with, people walk into restraunts and think they own the place, and i know from experience waiters take all the crap, whether its their fault or not, i once had a customer yell at me in front the entire restraunt because the chef messed up his order, and it wasnt “can you please correct this for me” it was more like “your incompetant and will never amount to anything”…. in other words, consider why it is that some waiters are like this, you need to give respect to get it
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There is no problem in the behavior of waitor to us,they are kindly in approach.
Hey William, thanks for the reply. Do you mean the waiters you run into are kind and never do any of the things above? Or do you mean the above things are not rude?
Not pay attention to you when you need help, like when you need a refill of your water glass after you eat something spicy. In my view, unless otherwise noted or told to the customer, a waiter should always keep an eye on the customer in case the customer looks up and around for their waiter. Other waiters should heed to such body language by either helping or by letting the original waiter know about the desperate gazes of the needy, and probably hungry or thirsty, customer.
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Thanks Jongren! Do you run into that too?
Delightful post. I love the way you’ve written the article. Your examles are not just hilarious they are even completely true. Look forward to reading more articles like this.
Thanks Lovepanky [do you have a nickname? :)]! I really appreciate it. Do you eat at restaurants a lot or have seen the above things?
One thing waitors do that annoy me is making rude comments while I am eatting, such as “you finished that fast” or laughing and saying, “you look like you are enjoying that.” When a waitor says comments such as those to me, they have kissed their tip goodbye.
Minus the first comment your server is probably just doing what his boss tells him and asks if you are enjoying the food…Horrible thing to complain. would you like it if we never came around your table at all…it’s called checking in…and if you don’t tip i remember faces and tell all the servers next time when you come in, then magically your food gets dropped or lost…
My pet peeve with servers is someone besides your server bringing out your entrees and then “auctioning” them off – e.g. “Who had the chicken parmesan?” etc.
There are ways to note who ordered what so that plates can be set down in their correct place without having to interrupt conversation to ask.
Whoever wrote this article is a retarded petty person. Waiters aren’t slaves
1: howabout u aaccomodate for the waiter struggling to approach the water glass which u have more than likey moved to anawkward position on the table
2: a payment can be processed by anyone it is a CARDINAL rule that wait staff should not return empty handed, hence also helping out your section waiter who is obviously off dealing with stupid questions like can i order the fish but i dont want it to taste like fish.
3:well after waiting for at least 30mins for your guest to eat that last small morsel of food most waiters will start to clear the table as they also have other guests to attend to ones that will eat their dinner instead of talk for an hour taking small insignificant bites.
4: its is polite not to hold the table as most businesses rely on the turn over to stop themselves from going BANKRUPT. if you were to order more than water u would find that you could sit at the table as long as u like.
5:we arenot touching you to get more tips we avoid dopin so cause we dont know ur bathing habits. we touch u to stop you from talkin long enough to pay attention so we can actally give you the service that you can complain about later on websites like this
6: how else are the waiters suppose to pik up the utensils….. with our TEETH?
7: you complain in #10 about to much service but in this one u complain u dont get enough service. how about u REALISE that you are not the only customer in the restaurant and if you cant handle spicy food dont order it or actually pay for your water!!!!!
8:depending on where you are in the world tipping is mandatory u tight ass
9: it is a requirement that all waitstaff follow up on the meal so as to avoid any issues so that wen u choose to complain after devouring the entire meal u dont get it for free like your tryin to by complaining. this also allows the kitchen to remedy any issues you may have at the begining of the meal so you have an enjoyable experience. you tight ass
#10 its called customer service it is wot you are payin us for make up you mind do u want service or not u cant have it both ways….. u tight ass cheap skate