[SunTzuWu]

If the local waitresaurus can't make it to my table in time, I help myself. I have no problem going to the waitress station to help myself to whatever I can find. Tea, coffee, soda, napkins, silverware. It embarrasses the hell out of them. Want the manager to take notice? Go into the kitchen grab a plate and serve yourself and your friends. After he hears why you are there you will be treated like a king every time you return.

[Yup!!]

If the local waitresaurus can't make it to my table in time, I help myself. I have no problem going to the waitress station to help myself to whatever I can find. Tea, coffee, soda, napkins, silverware.

I do that too. Drives my family crazy!! I give the waiter/ress plenty of time to come to my table before I get up and serve myself. One of my major pet peeves is when you order something that people usually eat with condiments (ketchup, mustard, etc) and they bring you the meal with no condiments. Then you have to sit there and wait for them while your meal gets cold. Very few waiters will bring you these things before they bring you the food. Now I ask for these things when I order my drink. I don't usually get them, but I do ask.

We rarely go out to eat anymore cause the service is so poor these days. No smile, no thank-you and a bad attitude.

[Xenalyte]

Want the manager to take notice? Go into the kitchen grab a plate and serve yourself and your friends. After he hears why you are there you will be treated like a king every time you return.

You may be getting the royal treatment in the dining room, but I've worked in some of the finest restaurants in Houston, and believe you me, your food is getting the pubes-in-the-paella treatment over by the dishwasher.

[Hank Rearden]

Want the manager to take notice? Go into the kitchen grab a plate and serve yourself and your friends. After he hears why you are there you will be treated like a king every time you return.

You do that in my restaurant, you'll head back to your table minus a finger, at minimum. We treat our customers with respect, and expect the same in return.

And we have the knives . . . . . .