Is it socially acceptable to go to a restaurant and order more than one meal for myself?
If you’re paying, no problem! That’s why I prefer paying for myself when with friends, lol - I want to order whatever I want to order and I love taking home leftovers. I like sharing. I don’t want to feel stifled. Sometimes, I’m in a position to be able to afford more than another person and ordering many items for people to share won’t embarrass anyone who can’t afford to buy much.I love to cook, but I also love what other people cook (restaurants) and I don’t get do it often, so when I do, I like to order a variety of items. Fortunately and thankfully, my DH is the same! We will sometimes order quite a few things, we share, we take some home and have leftovers, the restaurant gets the business and the server gets a bigger tip. A win-win for everyone. :DOn the other side: NO PROBLEM! I waitressed for many years in different kinds of places. I’ve worked at dive bars and coffee shops and upscale restaurants and private clubs. Nobody ever thought twice about a customer ordering more than one meal for themselves. It’s not uncommon - people like to share - people like to try new things - someone might not like one dish, but love something else… another win-win for everyone!I worked at a coffee shop in a southern California beach town and the Rams football team was visiting for practice nearby. Those guys came in and they each ordered four meals. They wouldn’t all fit on the table at the same time, so we scurried back and forth as fast as they could eat. I’d never seen a pro footballer in person and man, are some of those guys HUUUGE. Sort of like seeing huge adults sitting in kindergarten chairs and tables. Rude, full of themselves and cheap tippers, too. This was back in the early 1980s, so hopefully, things have changed.
Boat Ramp Etiquette-Loading- Is the order of vehicles or order of boats the proper order to load?
Here in CA, the ramp etiquette is with the truck/trailer line and not the boats in the water. Dropping a person off to get the truck/trailer is better for all concerned. This person can be dropped near the dock or near shore. People that dock their boats and then unload people and gear are inconsiderate of everybody still on the water. These people add 15-30 minutes to the retrieval time just to their own boat, not to mention everybody else still on the water. When retrieving the boat from the water, everything should stay on the boat until the boat is on the trailer and well clear of the ramp as a courtesy for your fellow boaters. The object is to get the boat loaded and off the ramp as quickly as possible for the next person in the staging line with a truck/trailer. The boat lineup and staging is unimportant. Once a driver is dropped off, the boat should be pulled away from the dock to allow the next boat to drop a driver off to get their truck/trailer. NO ONE should have their boat parked at the dock without a truck/trailer backing into the water NOW. Learn to do a "Live Engine" retrieve! This is were the truck/trailer backs into the water and the boat is driven onto the trailer. The tips of the bunkers are just at the top of the water and the boat powers up the bunkers and the truck driver helps to guide the boat driver to the trailer. Once the hull touches the bunkers, it'll self right. Power the boat just enough to the "Bump Stop" and attach the Winch hook and pull tight, then attach the safety hook to the eye. Kill the engine and "Trailer UP" the outdrive if you have one. Truck driver now pulls forward and fully clear of the ramp area with everyone still onboard to an appropriate unloading area. There you'll do everything to remove gear, people and attach safety equipment for the road ahead. My wife and I do this with a 26' Express Cruiser everywhere, and get thumbs up from everyone on the ramp. We are usually on the ramp for under 5 minutes total! The ramp at days' end is always awful, don't make it worse by parking the boat at the ramp then getting the truck/trailer and everyone standing around doing nothing. Boaters still in the water are tired and want to get home too. So to give you an answer, you are in the wrong on this one.
Is this a proper restaurant etiquette?
No way!!! That is no way to make tips! But if you have never been a waitress before please take this into consideration. I live in Wy. Here the avg. waitress/waiter makes $2.50 an hour. The rest of your wages has to be made in tips. How do you get tips? By keeping customers happy. There are some things many people don't realize. Some ppl like the waitress to stop often others would prefer if you didn't. They aren't mind readers so they can only feel u out and hope they guess right. Are they busy? Please keep in mind that a waitress usually has many jobs through out the building. Of coarse she has to tend to you, the customer. Then she also has to tend to Things in the kitchen. Usually the waitress is in charge of things like side salads,finishing touches like sour cream, steak knives, rolls and desert. Then if there is no cocktail waitress she has to go to the bar area to get drinks. And there is usually a line of drink orders b4 hers. She also spends time in the dish room and possibly cleaning bathrooms during the slower periods. Then you think u r getting tiped by how well you do. Remeber who cooks your food. Its not the waitress. What happens when the cook over cooks your steak? What happens when the cooks get backed up and it is taking forever for food to get done? The waitress gets the short end of the stick. Because he/she will be tipped by how fast the meal arrived and if it was how the person ordered it. She has no conrol over this. But ppl tip on these things. If she isn't lucky enough to have a busser. She is also responsible for clearing, cleaning, and resetting the tables. That takes a lot of time and energy. So the next time you eat out and the waitress is ignoring you, your food wasn't cooked fast enough or wasn't cooked just how you asked. Remember. She works her butt off so she can make tips. I know i wouldn't wanna work my butt off for only $2.50 an hour. They depend on your happiness. Sometimes things happen and you get crappy service. But i guerentee they don't want to leave you unhappily waiting for a refill if at all possible. We all are humans and everyone is entitled to a bad day.
The restaurant check....?
Do you prefer splitting the check ( evenly) at restaurants when you dine with family or friends? Or do you think that seperate checks work out better? If so, is it ok, or does it seem tacky to ask before ordering, if the server can put it on seperate checks? Sometimes you might order something small, for a few bucks, and other parties might have the most expensive thing on the menu...so, if splitting evenly, how do you feel about this? I understand that "treating" another person to dinner, etc. falls into a different situation. So my question is generally speaking; for example, lunch with friends.
Is it rude to eat someone elses food at restaurant?
Hi basically when I go to a restraunt with friends or partners I often find I am not content with just ordering a main course and desert. Because I dont want to order a starter as it costs too much I often go up to someone elses table where they have some nice looking food and put my fork in their meal to try a bit, I do this after eating desert of course as when I do it I am usually met with a disdain full look or worse physical assualt I try to only eat womens food as from experience eating mens food can be very sore. I just wonder does any one else do this at restaurants and whether this would be considered as good or bad dinner practice. I pay a lot for a nice meal, I expect to be well fed and watered and I believe other people should be only to happy to help me achieve my goal of having a nice and filling meal. Am I being reasonable or am I being a little selfish?
Is it bad that I typically order for my wife at restaurants?
I order for my wife with her consent. If you do likewise then there's nothing at all wrong with that.My wife is Chinese and picky about food. She doesn't know what a lot of the things on a typical American menu even are (if there are no pictures)... and I know what she likes and have some idea of what she won't like. So we have our way of ordering and it works for us and she is happy with the system.I read the menu and make suggestions, explaining what things are.. then we pick two things we THINK she would like that I'd also be ok eating even if one is not my first choice because, we don't know for sure if she will like hers and when the waiter/waitress comes I order for both of us and when food arrives we generally share both with her eating mostly hers and me mostly mine but I will swap with her without question if she likes mine better.Every relationship is different and has its own reasoning for doing things its own way. As long as your little system is good for everyone involved, in this case that is ONLY you and your GF/wife, then its a good system and nobody else has any business making you feel like its not a good thing.You will find there are angry feminists out there who will see your relationship through THEIR colored worldview as something negative but that's THEIR problem and their issues coming out. Ignore them and keep you and your girlfriend or wife/significant other happy that’s one of the keys to a successful relationship. Remembering its about the two of you and holding the outside negative influences at bay. Trust me I'm in a mixed race relationship to a younger better looking woman, LOL if we let others tell us how to be we'd never be together and we are VERY happy in our marriage, have a 5 year old son we love (to make crazy together) and are buying a big house together.. all good. Let those bitter people talk but totally ignore them.
Can you bring a cake to a restaurant?
Yes. They will hold it in back until the time comes, supply the plates and such as well. Some will even slice and serve it to your guests. BTW, be nice to the server, she is doing additional work for your table and normally people sometimes forget to tip them a little extra. z
Handing the woman the bill...Why would a waiter/waitress do this?
Sometimes when my husband takes the family out to dinner the waiter or waitress will hand me the bill. At first it was funny but now it's getting annoying. This has happened at different restaurants. It doesn't happen everytime but it has happened about 50% of the time which is a lot because we go out about once a week. This last time the waiter asked if we were paying separately! It's obvious we are a couple, man, woman, 2-3 kids depending if our teenage son crawls out of the cave he calls a room, I just find it odd and bordering on offensive. Is this common and what would motivate the waiter to do this? My husband orders for the table usually and occasionally I will order for him if he asks me to choose. I also order for the children but on occasion he orders for them. There is really no observable pattern that would make me think any of that has anything to do with it. I'm just curious as I have never worked as a waitress how do they decide who to give the bill to or whether or not to ask if the bill should be split? The waiter yesterday had split our bill and had to go back and fix it. My husband laughed but I was silently disturbed. The waiter's explanation was that they have a lot of separated people come in to eat together, really? I replied, well if my own husband can't buy me a meal we just might separate. It was a big laugh but I was offended on the inside. Thank you for thoughtful answers :D