We were enjoying a leisurely breakfast at J’s favorite morning spot. The portions were huge – great food, but just a bit too much for me. We had just been discussing the demeanor of our server – very friendly, almost a bit too flirtatious. As he approached our table to clear the dishes he grabbed mine, took one look and snidely remarked, “Ma’am, don’t you know there are children starving in the world?”. The boyish charm we previously thought he had evaporated instantly when he opened his mouth. All I could muster was an astonished, evil glare. DAMN! What I really wanted to say was “Listen punk, I didn’t ask for your opinion and if you’re so frickin’ concerned about this little bit of cold, soggy waste, why don’t you just go scrape it into a little care package for one of those starving children?”
Two Lazy Dogs 
What a little snot!!!
Well if that’s how he feels, then I suddenly worry about how much food he serves after dropping it on the floor (*shudder…)
Yes, I was highly pissed off at the little prick but I figured if I ratted on him he may take it out on the next customer…ick!
The only response you should have received from him was, “Would you like a doggy bag for this?”
I hope you didn’t tip him.
I never expected him to say that! Can you imagine?? I did tip him – but only some change. I’m such a sucker. I try to be a bad ass bitch but the real me always creeps through! I should have just asked for the manager and got his ass fired!
I hate it when people try and guilt you into eating everything on your plate. Good grief, like you said, are we supposed to ship it over to people in other countries?!
Exactly! I would think that if the restaurant saw a lot of waste they’d start cutting back on portions. I certainly don’t think they train their wait staff to guilt someone into eating the rest of their meal!!
Crap, I would have thought he was joking and laughed. Who says that stuff except your mother?
I know! I’m pretty sure he was serious, he was one of those earthy-crunchy boys.
Yeah I probably would’ve thought he was flirting …just goes to show how clueless I am!
Was he wearing an OBAMA ’08 shirt with his birkenstocks?
Maybe next time you could be like “hey, want the rest of this? shame for it to go to waste?”
Haha…honestly, I can’t remember what he was wearing. Yeah, I should have asked if he wanted the rest!
Do you live in Portsmouth NH??? This sounds strangely like almost every experience I have ever had at the Friendly Toast….they serve absolutely huge portions of food and if you don’t take home the leftovers, they really go out of their way to remind you of the earth and the starving children and blah blah, all because you couldn’t finish the 2 lb breakfast burrito from hell and since I wasn’t heading home anytime soon, opted to dump the rest rather than have it spoil in my car for 12 hours, and for this, I have to listen to some super skinny bony ass chick with the nastiest dreadlocks lecture me on waste……..*sighs* dumbasses
No, it was while visiting in Florida, actually…and I certainly wasn’t gonna haul my remaining soggy egg/avocado scramble all over central Florida that day! But, come on folks…seriously, think about the portions you’re serving instead of making the customers feel guilty. Dumbasses – damn right!
egg/avocado scramble???? they have that at the Friendly toast too…think they call it the Guy Scramble
Eggs, avocado, salsa, monterey jack cheese and ham: a big gloppy, oozing green delicious mess served on your choice of fresh grilled bread (anadama for me)with a side of some crispy grilled homefries….ok, now I’m hungry…:)
Mmmm…yum! Now I’m hungry, too. Mine was eggs, avocado, bacon, cheese, homefries…a massive ooey gooey conglomeration…but much too much for me to eat it all in one sitting. 😛
Good service is hard to find now days. What ever happened to “the customer is always right” because they always want to argue with me.
Me: Excuse me, you charged me for the wrong thing.
Her: No, that’s what you ordered.
Me: I just want to eat, can you change it for me.
Her: Grrr, argh, *sigh* ok, but that’s not what you ordered.
And she WAS the manager! How are you supposed to enjoy your meal after all that BS??? I don’t even know why I bother sometimes.
Yeah, the service industry is just going to hell. I own a restaurant and I’m amazed that the girls that work for me would rather spend 15 minutes arguing with a customer than just suck up and be nice – which takes much less effort (or should, anyway)!
WORD! What you thought! If I would have thought of that in time~I probably would have said something, but I always think great things to say after the fact-darn it!
WOOF!
Yes, why does that always happen? I think because our brains are so stunned with what transpires. 😛