Is this an age related thing?
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Is this an age related thing?
| Thu, 04-12-2007 - 9:45am |
(Totally OT, not SAH/WOH related, so feel free to not respond)
I went out with 5 other women to dinner last night.

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Bull. PNJ wasn't talking about deserving treatment. She was talking about nose-in-the-air, snobby, classist behavior. (I think, lol) Those type of restaurants give you that attitude the moment you walk in the door.
Of course, your definition of "treat you poorly" may differ from mine.
i guess if teh staff immediatly looks at you as if you're dirt on the bottom of their shoe - i'd agree with you.
this has not been my experience however. even as punk-rock as i am (although i definetly enjoy dressing up for a night out at a fancy resteraunt - i stil have my peircings and spikey hair) i've never been treated in this manner by the staff.
i've seen other people get treated with that attitude *after* they've done something rude, unreasonable or generally bone-headed.
why would you say that?
i have a great deal of experience both as a customer and a staff member of resteraunts of all kinds. but i'm a big fan of high end, five star fine dining establishments - and i (used to) frequent them often.
i also live in a highly affluent high COL area with pretty judgmental folks (remember the playground predjudice thread?). snobbery is nothing new here.
Yes, it does, thanks.
It's also part of the reason I don't carry cash very often, although I do during the baseball season.
PumpkinAngel
out of curiousity, whats a script card? is it like a debit card?
even if i use my debit card at the grocery store i can get cash back in any denominations i want. (without being charged to do so). or at the drug store, at the convienient store etc...i can even cash a personal check at the grocery store if thats the only way i can get cash at that moment in time.
*shrug*.
Because you insisted that snobby, arrogant behavior only happened when it was provoked by the customer. And my experience says otherwise. My experience of observing snobby, arrogant is not limited to reasonable reaction to behaviors provoked by customers. Yours apparently is.
The most egregious example of snobby, arrogant behavior by waitstaff I have seen recently was in a high end restaurant when a patron asked a waiter to translate an item on the menu into English. The waiter responded, nose in air, that if she didn't know what it was, she was not apt to like it and suggested that she order something less exotic. Only he didn't say it just that way. I cannot possibly reproduce his tone over the internet.
i didn't *insist* that it never happens unless provoked by customers - however i didn't take your posts to say that this behavour happens at all, only that if it did, you wouldn't eat there, no matter how good the food is. seeing as how this was provoked by a comment made by me, many posts ago - i figured i'd chime in to clarify a few things.
i guess i don't see what the problem is here. its never happened to me. i've never seen it happen the way you describe either. i never said it *didn't* happen, however.
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