Does anybody have a really funny story or a fond memory of someone on your restaurant serving staff?
Here's one that is often repeated in my house.
I'm a big soda drinker and usually decline water when it's offered by the assistant server. Instead, I just ask for a Diet Coke. On our Northern European cruise, we had a great serving team and our assistant server, Bima, stopped bringing me water after the second day, and simply brought a Diet Coke for me when he brought water for the rest of the table at the beginning of dinner.
So I'm at lunch in Lumiere's one day, and of course we don't have our normal serving team. So the assistant server brings me a water. No big deal, I just ask for the Diet Coke and it's fine. Later in the meal, it's kind of slow in the restaurant, and Bima is working another section. But he sees me so he comes over to say hello.
He looks down at our table and gets this big grin on his face and says (imagine it with an Indonesian sound), "He brought you water. He did not know."
It just struck me as funny. Maybe because of Bima's smile, like we were in on some big secret together. And now whenever we're at a restaurant where they just bring water to the table, my wife or daughter will say, "He brought you water. He did not know!"
Here's one that is often repeated in my house.
I'm a big soda drinker and usually decline water when it's offered by the assistant server. Instead, I just ask for a Diet Coke. On our Northern European cruise, we had a great serving team and our assistant server, Bima, stopped bringing me water after the second day, and simply brought a Diet Coke for me when he brought water for the rest of the table at the beginning of dinner.
So I'm at lunch in Lumiere's one day, and of course we don't have our normal serving team. So the assistant server brings me a water. No big deal, I just ask for the Diet Coke and it's fine. Later in the meal, it's kind of slow in the restaurant, and Bima is working another section. But he sees me so he comes over to say hello.
He looks down at our table and gets this big grin on his face and says (imagine it with an Indonesian sound), "He brought you water. He did not know."
It just struck me as funny. Maybe because of Bima's smile, like we were in on some big secret together. And now whenever we're at a restaurant where they just bring water to the table, my wife or daughter will say, "He brought you water. He did not know!"
