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Expensive Restaurants vs. Cheap Restaurants
The difference between an expensive restaurant and a cheap restaurant, illustrated.
Expensive restaurant
Customer: I’d like the ham and swiss, but I don’t like it when the lettuce hangs off the edge of the roll, can you trim that? Also, no pepper unless it’s freshly ground, and I’d like a dash of sea salt on it, instead of regular salt, and could you make sure that there’s no green on the tomato before you put it on? I like them soft, but not mushy, nice and firm and ripe. And is the swiss cheese from France? Good, and if you could lightly toast the bun, but not as long as you normally would, I like just a hint of crispiness.
Server: Certainly sir, would you care for a glass of wine with that? I might suggest a Sicilian frappato, we have a lovely Cerrasuolo di Vittoria.
Customer: Yes, that sounds excellent, thank you.
Cheap restaurant
Server: Here’s your chili sir.
Customer: I ordered a ham sandwich.
Server: Are you sure?
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Haha sounds like a bit of retail too. Are you sure you want to buy this? I wouldn’t be here asking for it if I didn’t want it now would I? lol
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That sounds like a little like the restaurant I work in. In all honesty though, I’m willing to accommodate for most requests, but “lightly toasted” really irks me.
I have twenty orders up here, I don’t have time to watch toasters thank you very much. Although, “burnt toast” I can certainly make for you.
But yeah, from the perspective of someone who actually works kitchen, those requests aren’t as annoying as you would think. Even for cheap places.
Can’t say the same for ALL of my co-workers though. ;)
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@tyler I’ve worked in retail, and I’ve used that line to subtly hint that you should pretty much definitely not, in fact, buy what you’re buying. Savvy consumers would reply with ‘Well, what would you suggest?’ and I’d show them something they wouldn’t try to return later. It’s hard to do without risking the implication that the customer is stupid. Ironically, it was only the stupid ones that took offence to the implication. I
@alex I’m inclined to agree. The issue I have is with low-end restaurants that cannot get a simple order right in the first place. The last time I went to McDonald’s (several years ago), I stood there for ten minutes waiting for someone to take my order (even though they were right across the counter, they ignored me), at which point they proceeded to charge me for and give to me the completely wrong order – so not only was I late for work, I was also not fed. When I went back to complain, the manager’s response was ‘So? What do you want?’
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@dan I’ve had Customer1 ignore my recommendation because Customer2 was over hearing my talk with Customer1 and had to tell Customer1 not to listen to me.
Customer1 came back the next day to return the product that Customer2 said was more suited for them. Customer1 apologized to me and went with that I originally recommended to them. lol