Originally Posted by
DELee
At a restaurant in Santa Fe on the evening of out 1st wedding anniversary to celebrate. As we dined on the main course, server would take an item off the table every time she went by - which was relatively frequent since the table was in the hallway between the main dining room and the kitchen. After a certain point we just gave up and left.
David
What kind of item? A dirty dish or something you were eating or what?
I recall back in the day I worked at a fancy restaurant, and we were supposed to take the salt & pepper off of the table
every time someone finished their main course and before dessert. Looking at S&P shakers while you were eating ice cream and cake obviously caused a lot of trauma. Then when those people left and the table was reset the S&P came back for the new people. And was taken off when they had dessert. It was something I had such a hard time remembering (because it seemed so stupid to me) and I got reprimanded for it all the time.