Michael "Dog3" wrote in rec.food.restaurants:
> Sqwertz > :
> in rec.food.cooking
>
>> 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.
>
> I dine out a lot and not once has a waitunit asked me "how does
> everything taste"? Not even the chain restaurants. Sure, they all have
> their little 'canned' script when checking back. I think I would laugh
> if they asked me how everything tasted and gone into this lengthy
> diatribe how *I* would change the taste, texture etc. The goal of course
> would be to watch the waitunit's eyes glaze over and try to find a way to
> squirm out of the conversation. "How does everything taste" is a little
> off-putting to me. It's almost like they are experimenting with the food
> and looking for patron feedback.
>
>> 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.

I've been asked this question in a chain restaurant. I think I was asked
because I ordered an item that was being tested to see if it was going to be
added to the menu chain wide.

I agree the question isn't a normal one from a waitperson, but more normal from
a managerunit who might have a Q/A reason for asking.