August 23: Bad for buisness?

Black Mantha · Post by **Black Mantha** » Fri Aug 23, 2002 12:07 am

That's one customer that won't be coming back. Except maybe to drag them to court. Good thing they have BJ's blessing.

Cannonshop · Post by **Cannonshop** » Fri Aug 23, 2002 2:13 am

Ahh...all he has to do is look "up"....

BJ · Post by BJ » Fri Aug 23, 2002 2:32 am

It's Lou's policy to give customers all the service they deserve. Besides, Cannonshop's right--it's his own fault for not looking up.

Red_Cedars · Post by **Red_Cedars** » Fri Aug 23, 2002 2:49 am

Besides, who'd want to eat at the table next to that guy! Lou's doing a service for the rest of her (hopefully more polite) customers. I mean, just LOOK at that guy with his sweaty armpits and all. It's enough to put a fellow off his lunch! Not good for business indeed! Never should have let him in the door!

Blech,
R_C

Kendrakirai · Post by **Kendrakirai** » Fri Aug 23, 2002 4:46 am

Besides, it's the northeast and he's calling Loud 'Chiquita'? Gyeh. He's lucky he's getting off light.

Innit Bippy cuuuute? She's got that silly grin she always has but with a bit of an expression that says 'OOoooo, this is gonna be *fun*!'

Anyone that doesn't notice somebody holding a pot of hot coffee not three inches above their head deserves what they get. Call it Applied Darwinism.

DocMan · Post by **DocMan** » Fri Aug 23, 2002 6:25 am

kendrakirai wrote:Besides, it's the northeast and he's calling Loud 'Chiquita'?

Northeast? I'd say it's more like the MidNorth. Or Great Lakes area. New England it ain't...

Doc

Allan_ecker · Post by **Allan_ecker** » Fri Aug 23, 2002 7:01 am

They could handle all this with a sign outside:

Here at the Bitchin' Kitchen we give everyone
the service we feel they deserve. As a consequence,
rude, unpleasant people may find themselves
waiting a longer time than nice, courteous people.

Also, ESPECIALLY rude people may invoke the wrath
of the staff, in which case, we are not responsible
for any damage to property or personal injury
incurred as a result of your own rudeness.

Have a nice day, unless you don't.

Cannonshop · Post by **Cannonshop** » Fri Aug 23, 2002 1:22 pm

allan_ecker wrote:They could handle all this with a sign outside:

Here at the Bitchin' Kitchen we give everyone
the service we feel they deserve. As a consequence,
rude, unpleasant people may find themselves
waiting a longer time than nice, courteous people.

Also, ESPECIALLY rude people may invoke the wrath
of the staff, in which case, we are not responsible
for any damage to property or personal injury
incurred as a result of your own rudeness.

Have a nice day, unless you don't.

Yeah, that works. Besides, he's gettin' his coffee, at least...

Citrish · Post by **Citrish** » Fri Aug 23, 2002 6:33 pm

The idea that in Bitchin' Kitchen, Lou & Bippy are allowed to get Righteous with the customers is a nice enough fantasy and everything, but it completely wouldn't work in real life.

Making an excuse like 'we're busy' is 'cheeky' enough, never mind hospitalizing people with hot coffee.

Red_Cedars · Post by **Red_Cedars** » Fri Aug 23, 2002 8:47 pm

Citrish wrote:Making an excuse like 'we're busy' is 'cheeky' enough, never mind hospitalizing people with hot coffee.

No one said it's hot. Cold coffee that's been sitting around for, say, a week or two that has that awful looking film ... uh, yeah. I've actually let coffee sit around that long ... would be just as effective, maybe even more so.

Also, given the perspective, Bippy "could" be aiming for the cup if her arm is actually extended past the jerk's head. Pouring from that height would certainly cause a splash. Especially if the jerk is surprised enough that he flinches and pulls his cup out of the stream.

R_C

"It is never a wise thing to annoy a waitress."

Kendrakirai · Post by **Kendrakirai** » Sat Aug 24, 2002 6:00 am

I agree with that last sentiment...never annoy somebody who's handling your food.

Red_Cedars · Post by **Red_Cedars** » Sat Aug 24, 2002 10:56 pm

kendrakirai wrote:I agree with that last sentiment...never annoy somebody who's handling your food.

Actually I paraphrased the quote from Matt Groenig, of Life in Hell. The strip was about how to annoy various types of artists and all I remember is the closing panel. Cartoonist: It is never a wise thing to annoy a Cartoonist.

FWIW,
R_C

Occams_nail_file · Post by **Occams_nail_file** » Sun Aug 25, 2002 4:33 am

I agree with that last sentiment...never annoy somebody who's handling your food.

This is totally true- you have no idea what they're doing to it back there in the kitchen.

Even beyond that, though, I don't understand people who think that paying someone (in the case of coffee, a pitiful amount of) money exempts them from common courtesy. It doesn't. Being vicious and demanding to a waitress is a warning sign that you won't tip well, and as a result you get bad service- catch-22?

BJ · Post by BJ » Sun Aug 25, 2002 5:01 am

Hi ONF! Actually, what I don't get is where people get off abusing store clerks. These people are running around trying to find you exactly what you're looking for so you can buy it and get on with your life. What good does it do to yell at them, belittle them, call them stupid, threaten their job, swear up and down you'll never shop there again (like this is some kind of threat?), remind them you can get item X cheaper at their competitor's and ask what they'll give you for pointing out a mismarked price (um...a great big hug?)?

All of these (and more) have happened to me, except for the 'stupid' comment, which happened to a coworker.

What good? You don't tip these people. They don't write the return policy or make the rest of the rules.

I think it's a power trip for people. YOU have to be nice to me because THEY pay you to be nice to me, so I'M gonna see how many of your buttons I can press. If you mouth off to me, it's your job. It's like some kind of cheap psychotherapy so these morons can let off steam when they're having a bad day...which seems to be all the time.

I guess I've now traded one soapbox for another....sorry. People annoy me.

Yun648 · Post by **Yun648** » Sun Aug 25, 2002 9:11 am

kendrakirai wrote:I agree with that last sentiment...never annoy somebody who's handling your food.

I can't stop thinking of the French toast scene in Road Trip >_<

Black Mantha · Post by **Black Mantha** » Sun Aug 25, 2002 11:34 am

BJ wrote:I guess I've now traded one soapbox for another....sorry. People annoy me.

I don't mind, as long as you don't repeat yourself. If people don't want to read other people's thoughts, what whould they be doing on a forum?

Yan648 wrote:I can't stop thinking of the French toast scene in Road Trip >_<

I haven't seen it. I'm sure it's something unpleasant, and I probably wouldn't want to know, but I've made it a matter of honor not to spare myself. Or anyone else.
What did they do to it?

Kendrakirai · Post by **Kendrakirai** » Sun Aug 25, 2002 1:15 pm

Here's a hint...

Road Trip is a Tom Green movie.

Gyuck.

I feel sorry for him for watching a Tom Green movie, let alone having one of those scenes burned into his memory.

Ahayweh · Post by **Ahayweh** » Sun Aug 25, 2002 3:24 pm

That doesn't help much if I haven't heard of Tom Green, y'know. (Yes, I'm clueless.)

I recall running across a website a while ago that I think was called The Stained Apron, where waiters and waitresses wrote in about the yicky things they'd done to the food of people who really deserved it for one reason or other. Unsettled me a bit- while their descriptions of some of these customers left me with no doubt it was deserved, some of them could have just been having a rather bad day. It did leave me with the conviction that I'm always going to be VERY NICE to people who have an opportunity to handle my food in the future, though.

ZOMBIE USER 1159 · Post by **ZOMBIE USER 1159** » Sun Aug 25, 2002 7:41 pm

Yeah, the french toast scene was what came to mind for me as well.
I may work in a kitchen, but I have never intentionally done something to anyones food, and no server has ever asked our crew to. Even the ones who end up raging or in tears.

ZOMBIE USER 1159 · Post by **ZOMBIE USER 1159** » Sun Aug 25, 2002 7:55 pm

What the fat waiter/cook character did was, when the 98 pd weakling/social outcast asked that he get new french toast without powdered sugar on them (nicely btw, but after it had already arrived at table), he took it to the kitchen, licked the sugar off, put the toast down the front and back of his pants, walked around the restaurant, farted, back to the kitchen, put the toast back on a plate and delivered it (he may have done something else, not sure). 98 stated that it tasted good.
This wasn't a Tom Green movie, I don't think. I think he just acted in it. It was far superior to what I gather Greens stuff is like.

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