Writing Boots

On communication, professional and otherwise.

Why Do Restaurant Servers Talk on Eggshells?

05.03.2021 by David Murray // Leave a Comment

Getting excited to get back to going to restaurants again, but not looking forward to the way some restaurant servers talk. Euphemistic phrases offered not to offend—and maybe in preventative self-defense against snooty customers who like their servers to arrive on tiptoes.

But as a fella who likes to relate to servers on the friendly eye-to-eye—I don’t like being talked to like the grouchiest old bastard in the rest home.

“Can I take your plate, or are you still working?”

“Can I take your plate, or are you still nibbling?”

“Did you save any room for dessert?” (Really, you’re asking me directly about the volume of half-chewed slop sloshing around in one of my internal organs?)

And—this is the newest one—no matter what dish I order—whether a 4-pound tomahawk long-bone ribeye, or the kale salad—the server shrieks, “Perfect!”

Or maybe I am the grouchiest old bastard in the rest home.

Categories // Uncategorized

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Now Available

An Effort to Understand

Order Now

SIGN UP TO RECEIVE BLOG UPDATES

About

David Murray writes on communication issues.
Read More

 

Categories

  • Baby Boots
  • Communication Philosophy
  • Efforts to Understand
  • Happy Men, and Other Eccentrics
  • Human Politicians
  • Mister Boring
  • Murray Cycle Diaries
  • Old Boots
  • Rambling, At Home and Abroad
  • Sports Stories
  • The Quotable Murr
  • Typewriter Truths
  • Uncategorized
  • Weird Scenes Inside the Archives

Archives

Copyright © 2023 · Log in

  • Preorder An Effort to Understand
  • Sign Up for Blog Updates
  • About David Murray