Restaurant Gripes #1 and #2
Jan 6, 2010 St. Louis, missouri, restaurants
Over at Winemag.com Erika Strum today posted a list of 10 Unspoken Rules of Restaurant Service Etiquette written up after a bad experience at New York’s, Michelin two star award winning, Gilt Restaurant. What she left off the list, however, is my number one service gripe: SERVE WOMEN FIRST!
From taking their orders to placing their dishes in front of them, women are always to be served first. It’s such a basic service rule that even at the most basic of diners a server ought to be capable of handling it. Still, amongst St. Louis’s finest restaurants, only two, in my recollection, have pulled this off on 100% of my visits with women: Sidney Street Café and Atlas. And that includes all of the usual suspects where one would assume such a basic service rule would be followed easily.
Of course that’s not my only restaurant gripe and, in an attempt to post a little more this year—a task at which I will undoubtedly fail—I’ll start writing, occasionally, about restaurant gripes that I feel could (and should) easily be avoided.
Now that you know my #1 gripe, rather then heading straight into #2 and picking on service staffs alone, let’s turn things to the back-of-the-house shall we?
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Tags: Atlas Restaurant, butter, gilt restaurant, restaurant gripes, service etiquette, Sidney Street Cafe
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