"Sqwertz" > wrote in message
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>A few restaurants have trained their wait-droids to ask, "How does
> everything taste?" instead of the usual, "Can I get you anything?"
> or, "Is everything OK here? <smile>".
>
> Does the term, "How does everything taste?" kinda throw people off?
> Granted, that's our cue to ask for more drinks or condiments, but do
> I really want to go into detail and tell them how everything tastes?
>
> It really gives me the Willies to hear them ask that - it just comes
> out as so ingenuine, IMO.
>
> So last weekend when we were asked "How does everything taste?", we
> both said the sauteed mushrooms were terribly salty and we really
> didn't want them on the table taking up space.
>
> So the waitress offered to rinse them off for us. Duh.
>
> County Line BBQ "On The Lake", Austin TX. Sunday 1/4/09 at 5:10PM.
>
> -sw



Granted, I don't go out to eat often (I cook better stuff at home for much
less money). But I've never heard a server ask, "How does everything
taste?" Methinks this is a fabrication. It's certainly not a cue to ask
for condiments or beverages. If the food sucks the patrons will let a
server know without being asked.

Maybe you should stop eating in chain restaurants. Your mention of "droids"
clearly indicates you go to places where they have some sort of corporate
script to follow. Try eating in places where the kitchen staff actually
give a shit about whether or not their food is good and the servers aren't
"droids".

Jill