Originally Posted by
PSUhorty
If your date is worth enough to you, I assume you are spending your $$$ at a restaurant that is at least pretty good. Of those restaurants, I would assume that something like this would happen VERY rarely.
I think it happens more often than you think -- and the politeness issue remains whether you are dining at L'Aureole or California Pizza Kitchen.
Originally Posted by
TMOliver
If a few more diners were simply willing to get up and walk out the door, some, no many restaurants would do better. I... have witnessed too much atrocious treatment of folks paying for food to be very tolerant of chefs, kitchens and waitstaff incapable of coordinating service.
That is for sure. Consumers get intimidated into accepting bad products and services in the fine-dining business more than any other business. I think it is harder to get satisfaction in linen-and-crystal places, in fact, than modest chain places.