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We like to sit you down, and show you a menu. We take pride on our chewable, edible food. These little fellers here are silverware.
This (gestures expansively to a cup) is what we here like to call a cup! It’s frequently used to hold liquids such as water, which is exactly what I’ve just poured into it.
“Honey, they have drinking bowls with handles!”
“Babe, I think this place might be out of our price range. Why can’t we just go to the place with tableside hamster bottles again?”
What if I don’t want my water in a “cup”?
You will leave this establishment immediately, you barbarous doorknob. 🫵😤👉
Neat!
Here at Restaurant, we offer “lonely singles style” dining. You order something you want to eat, and then you don’t share it with anyone else. Unless they like, ask really politely for a bite, then that’s on you. At the end of your meal, you ask for the check, then you wait like 20 minutes while going back and forth on whether you really need dessert or not, then you pay and leave!
Also you either pay us or up front. It’s one or the other but we won’t tell you until you flag us down and ask.
“You’ll be working front of the house. Your job is to walk around with these pitchers of ice water and ignore anyone who tries to get your attention”
The ones that amuse me are the restaurants that don’t do table service, but still have a multiple staff on the floor and door seemingly only to tell diners they don’t do table service.
“All you have to do is scan a qr code, sit on your phone for 5-10 minutes to figure out our menu system, get water for yourself at the station over there, get your own silverware, pick up drinks at the bar, grab this vibrating puck, and pick up food on the other side of the restaurant. Don’t forget to tip!”
Is this still common or are people beating a dead horse?
The whole QR code thing was big during the pandemic but every restaurant in my city deactivated their QR menu and setup.
I say that as a person who loves ordering from a QR and just having the server bring it over. Fight me.
I’ve still seen it quite a few times. It’s only annoying when it’s the only option to order.
The worst one was when they got mad at us for making 20 separate orders (group of 20 everyone orders on their own phone). Apparently we were supposed to take half an hour passing 1 phone around hoping the shitty webapp doesn’t wipe our order.
I guess they wanted to be able to auto add gratuity to your large party and totally agree with you. I personally don’t mind the QR code when it is just me or one other person.
It’s been so long since I’ve eaten out, but I feel like I’ve seen QR codes quite recently.
One was a yoga studio. I saw yoga happening (big plate glass windows at street level so it was hard to miss), and on a whim I thought “Well this seems like a nice place”. A teacher was finishing up and I asked her about a schedule, and it’s all online!
It’s such a minor thing but it annoys me so much. I want their class schedule stuck to my fridge with a magnet. I don’t want more time looking at this god-awful thing. Yoga is me trying to touch grass, get out of the house.
Maybe I’m some kind of bauhaus idealist, but I think paper in hand could play a nice role in turning that plate glass window full of yogis doing yoga into some walk-in traffic.
It annoys me because the world I grew up in, every business had some kind of paper handout with info. A yoga class schedule, assuming it’s stable, is the perfect thing to stick to my fridge and notice sometimes.
Being an old fogie sucks.
When a good portion of them end up just thrown out, IMO this is a step in the right direction. If you want it in your fridge you could write it down or print it. And then anyone who doesn’t want it on their fridge or doesn’t care enough to open the website doesn’t cause another piece of coloured and printed paper to just be waste.
I mean, if they can just keep a handful printed or be ready to print them if requested that would easily meet both needs
I’m not sure what the OP had in mind but with their description I was picturing the fast dining places, kinda like Panera bread. Sometimes in the more trendy places where they put like dandelions or some shit on sandwiches they will have a really convoluted bs system that requires as little human interaction as possible. But then they need all this extra staff because the system they made is confusing
The only thing worse is when they don’t explain that, and you’re stuck wondering why a waiter hasn’t come over. Yes I understand that the QR code is a menu. No I don’t think it’s more efficient to change the concept of a “restaurant” after 5,000 years.
Best thing is, last place that did this had a unique “fusion” menu. It’s not like the food was self-explanatory. So the waiters had to come to every table anyway, but it was hard to flag them down.
Btw restaurants with menu to choose from aren’t that old
Doubt. Even the Uruk Hai knew of menus
Yes they are. They were already ubiquitous in the Roman Empire. Pompeii has them in its ruins. It’s very recognizable as areas with seating and areas with food preparation / serving.
The point of contention is the menu, not the sit down and eat part.
if your server is doing this it’s because innumerable people before you have managed to fuck up eating out
I once went to a pizza place that had a slogan like “pizza done different” and you went through the a chipotle style line and picked out crust, sauce, toppings, then they made your pizza and gave it to you. I couldn’t figure out that was any different from a regular place.
If it’s chipotle style, then I would assume there’s more e. coli.
Most pizza places dont have a Chipotle style line I guess
And the lawyers were careful to use the ambiguous participle “done”.
If they’d gone precise with “Pizza ordered different” it definitely wouldn’t sound so fun
Were they the the personal size ones? IIRC they are priced as such, and affordable to get multiple toppings it doesn’t hike up the price. Also was a food court thing where the pizzas are made in like 3 minutes instead of 20. In a stone or brick oven. Idk that’s dope imo I would love grabbing that on a lunch break.
I know both Mod Pizza and Blaze Pizza do this, so yeah, it’s not any different at all.
They fart on the dough.
So still nothing different?
“We do family style, which means the portions are more than you can conceivably eat. That way you won’t complain when we overcharge you by a factor of 10.”
“We do ask that you not share…”
“You try stopping her from sharing my food. I have yet to find success in that endeavor.”
Well you see, we have mild AND spicy salsa.
Where’s the “we want plates” lemmy community? I loved that one on the other site.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
My experience:
“Oh, well, here you need to download an app, consent to everything the app wants to do and register with your phone number. Then you can order and walk to the kitchen to pick up the food you ordered. Also, leave a tip if you enjoyed the service.”
Oh, y’all still have wait staff?
We have “digital kitchens” now: https://stories.whataburger.com/whataburger-debuts-new-digital-kitchen-all-the-flavor-with-more-convenience/
Same wait without the staff, tables . . . or blackjack
or blackjack
What about the hookers? WHAT ABOUT THE HOOKERS?
Placing your order ahead for pick up at the new Digital Pick-up Lane allows our teams in the restaurant, whom we call Family Members, to deliver fresh, made to order food while reducing your time in the drive thru.
jesus christ
I didn’t believe you for a moment there but yes guys it does say Family Members on the site and is incredibly cringe.
If that’s how they treat family, what do they do with strangers?
Take their money in exchange for what many consider “food,” typically.
Reminds me of the bars around here that have replaced the wait staff, or maybe the whole qaot staff but one overworked person, with QR codes that go to their online ordering system.
I’ve started avoiding them because it always takes forever to find someone when we have a question about the menu, want something specially made or customized, or have a question about an advertised deal or item, etc.
whispers little bits
Eat some fucking shit you fucking stupid bitch… Hahaha just kidding
Then they slide your silverware or straw over to you and say …and there’s that."
“Yes of course, that”
proceeds to bite into spoon
Stupid trendy restaurants with their gallium flatware.
“Our
foodcutlery will melt in your mouth!”
The only time I ever needed a waiter to explain how things worked was when I ate at a Paula Dean restaurant. That place did not work like a normal restaurant.
How was it different? How did it work?
People don’t order individual meals. You order a meal for the whole table which is then brought out to the whole table to share. They provide unlimited refills of everything. So the whole table has to get together to decide what entree and sides they want. They don’t let you take any leftovers home either. Everyone gets butter rolls and a dessert.
If you go to their site you can see the menu but your choices are a 2, 3, or 4 entree meal with 4 sides.
Sounds like Maggiano’s except Maggiano’s is Italian food, and when I’ve been there they not only allow you to take home leftovers, the wait staff encourages you to ask for more when you’re done so you have some to take home.
They don’t let you take leftovers home? They gonna tackle me to the ground if I brought my own box?
Fogo de Chao is unusual, too. The options are whether you want the salad bar or not, and what beverage. Otherwise, you have a thing that’s red on one side and green on the other. If you want the servers carrying different cuts of meat to stop by to offer you some to put on your plate, you flip that to red. If you’re good, you flip to green.
I thought it was red for stop and green for go meat
we have something called a menu which you can choose your food from
That man isn’t stealing your scraps or homeless, he’s just bussing your table.
@pizza used to have their own name for every ingredient and would correct you if you asked for something by its regular name
“I’ll have a cheeseburger and-”
“Oh, you must mean our Cheesy Squeezy Chuck Burger”
sharpens table knife
That is why I always bring my own table knife with a 15° full flat grind. Really cuts down on that pesky sharpening time that might let you cool off before the cops come.
True story: I ate at a restaurant inside of a casino and you can’t have a pocket knife when you enter for obvious reasons, they gave me a steak knife with a 5" fully serrated edge when I sat down.
