Tastes have changed, literally, since Covid, said Chef Art Smith, who has been personal chef to Oprah Winfrey and Jeb Bush. He will be serving hundreds of Mother's Day meals at his four restaurants including his Homecomin' at Disney Springs at Walt Disney World.
The people who visit? "They're drinking more. They want more carbs -- If it's mac and cheese, it has to be the cheesiest. But they want salads, and they want more veg sides, too. They just want more."
We’ve never gone out to eat on Mother’s Day. To crowded.
Remind me - how many thousands of restaurants CLOSED due to Mother Government over-reach over the past 3 years?
What a bunch of complainers! Besides? Who is working these days? I though staffing was a HUGE issue.
Talk about biting the hand that literally FEEDS you...YOUR CUSTOMERS!
*Rolleyes*
I never thought of Mother’s Day as a restaurant day. Maybe I am weird. I usually think in terms of get togethers at a family member’s house.
Article translated: We don’t want to work if it gets busy. But we still want tips and you better tip more.
Jeb Bush has a personal chef?
I put myself through college as a line cook at a steak & seafood place and any of the holidays were rough. Larger groups come in than the typical day. Getting entrees timed all together for a group of 10-12 is no easy feat. And then mid-order someone changes their mind to a different entree. And someone send their steak back because they wanted it extra well done, and it’s not. (Which tells me you don’t like steak, get the seafood or chicken)
It paid my bills and paid for college which I’m grateful for, but you earn every penny.
Cook something at home, and then take mom out the following weekend, when the waitresses are celebrating their mothers’ Day.
Bullcrap… this is just note of the standard “bitch about every single decent thing” school of journalism.
Mother’s Day, as “pure hell”. It a busy packed day and lots of money and tips get made. Makes me think the writer has never even had a small taste of pure hell.
B****, whine and complain.
The Left’s new target: Mother’s day. A Canadian school is banning Mother’s day as not everyone has a mother.
Somewhat tangential, a friend of mine waited tables at a restaurant in NYC and was offered the sole work on a table of 30 diners. He jumped at it. The host was Pete Seeger, the famous folk singer.
What he didn’t know was that Seeger was a communist who NEVER tipped. Marx wrote a paper on the evils of tipping. The other wait people knew this from past experience and gave my friend the Seeger job, knowing he would be working for below minimum wage that night.
The last time I celebrated mother’s day we went to a couple of larger towns and went through greenhouses/parking lots looking for flowers. Love crazy petunias!
— We also stopped off at Burger King for malts. It was fun... and ice cream is always good. ;)
I think the article is a sneaky way of trashing Mothers Day by the people who think it should be Parent 1 Day. They hate Mothers Day because it’s about how people reproduce in the normal manner.
Customers are dorks all year around. But Mothers Day is when they give mom a break from the kitchen and take her out to eat, so there are more dorks per square foot in restaurants on Mothers Day than at other times.
Steve Dublanica said the same thing in his book “Waiter Rant.” I wouldn’t get near a brunch place on Mother’s Day.
Reverse the dates of Mother and Father’s Day: Mom can cook a nice inside meal at home for Dad — and Dad can fire up the grille for Mom.
No need to go bothering those put-out restaurants at all.
I told my family NOT to take me out on Mother’s Day - all the restaurants are far too crowded.
Last time we went out for a Mother’s Day Brunch, our usual restaurant was crowded, noisy and the waiters and waitresses surly and angry - all they did was try to get us out of there ASAP so they could turn the table over to the next group. They didn’t want us to linger - offered up the bill before we were done eating, etc. We’ve never gone back.
It will be up to them as to how we celebrate.
” This year is expected to be particularly challenging as high inflation and rising menu prices give some restaurant-goers an extra sense of entitlement.”
Really? And what is this claim based upon?
Seriously, do they even have editors at all anymore in any media organization?
And restaurants hate it?? Because they make so much money? sheesh. If you don't want to work, don't. For me, I avoid restaurants on busy days like this and Valentines day because the kitchen quality goes down as well as service when they are slammed.
My wife told me she wants to go out Sunday. Not necessarily for the commercial holiday, more because she doesn’t want to cook after church.
We’re considering less busy establishments.
Out of our four daughters, two live locally. Four of our grandchildren are adults with jobs.
Getting all of us together at the same time is nearly impossible, and that will only get worse. So...
We had dinner last night with one daughter and her children at her favorite restaurant, and Saturday night we will have dinner with her sister. No restaurants on Mother’s Day.
It’s the best we will ever be able to do. I never pictured my grandchildren as adults with jobs, drivers licenses and choosing a college that is 1000 miles away.