ChattyCathy wrote on Sun, 26 Apr 2009 21:06:35 +0200:

>> The restro rating thread made me think of an article I read
>> in the print version of Food Arts. Luckily it's online now.
>> I found it very amusing.
>>
>> Lou
>>
>> From he
>>
>> http://www.foodarts.com/Foodarts/FA_...41,472,00.html
>>
>> 129 Cardinal Sins

> <snipped>

> Great list. But #50 is the one that irritates me the most.
> Happens here all the time...

>> 50. Interrupting or asking questions while a guest's mouth is
>> full.
> --

I agree with a lot of them but the author is big on eye contact and
mentions it twice. A lot of the "sins" are indicative of "greasy spoons"
and would take very good food to have me return. One that does not seem
mentioned is the characteristic "waiter scan" where your server performs
a 270 degree eye-scan that does not include you when you require her
attention.

I'm afraid that there are not too many restaurants where I am known to
the manager or waiters so I don't expect them to know my preferences.

--

James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

Email, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not