Stan Horwitz wrote:
> In article .com>,
> "Rob" > wrote:
>
>> Irrespective of the location, what's been your funniest or worst
>> restaurant experience/s you've had so far - as in the food and / or
>> service being terrible, or the food and service being fine and very
>> good, but something else amusing occurred.
>
> Several years ago, a few friends and I went into a diner in
> Philadelphia to eat dinner after we saw a movie. As our food was
> served, a waitress brought over a friend's chicken parmasian. This
> friend was the final person at our table to be served. The poor
> waitress' hand slipped as she was about to remove the platter from
> her serving tray. Instead of placing the food in front of my friend,
> she received her dinner in her lap and all over her shirt!
> Fortunately, my friend was just dressed in inexpensive casual attire.
>
> The friend who had the food dumped on her was every bit is beautiful
> on the inside as she is on the outside so she reacted very politely
> and calmly. The look on the face of the waitress was one of horror.
> The waitress could not have been more apologetic. My friend stepped
> into the ladies' restroom, cleaned herself up reasonably well. By the
> time she returned to the table, a fresh plate of food was waiting
> there for her and we had all our meals comped by the management.
>
> We tipped generously, including the dumpee, because the poor waitress
> really did look like she was having a bad day and the restaurant was
> packed at the time.

Another working at a restaurant experience... lunch time and a busy day.
Someone I used to work with in retail was dining with friends. I can only
imagine this was a true Freudian slip because I'd never dumped anything in
anyones lap, either before before or after. But those Mai Tais or whatever
booze she'd ordered slid right off the tray and splashed red fruit juice and
booze all down the front of her dress. EEEP!

She was gracious about it and the manager comped her meal. I was
embarrassed as hell and asked another server to swap tables with me lest I
drop hot fish and hush puppies in her lap.

Jill