On Sun, 5 Oct 2014 00:17:16 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> wrote:

>
>"Ed Pawlowski" > wrote in message
...
>> The other night we stopped at a chain restaurant for dinner. We both
>> ordered a dish with braised beef. When the waitress took the order, she
>> asked "how would you like that cooked?". I told her it would be well
>> done, but she told me the POS system gave options for beef.
>>
>> I guess they don't give good lessons about what is on the menu. She
>> seemed to be fairly new and probably does not cook much for herself.
>
>Sadly I have noticed the wait staff often do not know how the food is
>prepared or what is in it.
>
>I once asked what was on the house salad. The waitress just looked at me
>like I was an idiot for asking and said it was just a salad with whatever
>dressing I wanted. So I said, "Oh! No croutons or cheese then?" And she
>told me of *course* there were croutons and cheese. So I asked her to leave
>those off and also the dressing.
>
>She then brought out a plate of greens with assorted vegetables, covered
>with slices of hard boiled egg. *sigh* I then told her that I couldn't eat
>egg and could she please bring me a salad that was only the vegetables.
>
>And what did I get then? Just the greens. Apparently she didn't consider
>carrots, celery, onions peppers and tomato to be vegetables.

She may have thought that if she put all those things on your salad
there would still be something that was offensive to you, and you'd
send it back again.

Doris