wrote:

My sister discovered the hard way that a customer must be careful at
Marie Callender's Restaurants. On December 22, 2005 my sister went
to a Marie Callender's Restaurant in Orange County, California. She
was going to lunch with a friend. She ordered a drink and an $8 salad.
Her friend ordered a sandwich and a drink.

The salad that the waitress delivered to her table came with terribly
wilted lettuce. She did not notice the wilted lettuce immediate when
the waitress sat the food on the table as she was talking with her
friend.

I think it is rude of diners to not acknowledge a waitperson
by pausing their conversation for a moment when the waitperson comes to
the table. By behaving this way you are making the waitstaff's job
more difficult.

She got the waitresses attention about five minutes after the
initial salad delivery, and told her that the salad was unfit to eat
due to the old wilted lettuce the kitchen used. The waitress's
response was: "This lettuce was not that wilted when I put the salad
on your table."

Good response. I like this waitress. Depending on how wilted
the lettuce was, the statement is possibly true, but even if so
what the waitress is really saying is "you were rude to me before,
and now you want my help?"

Steve