After we’d finished a very forgettable dinner in what purported to be an upscale restaurant, the waiter who been scarce the entire meal ( the busboy served the meal ), glided to our table, the bill in hand, and asked: " Now, did we find everything to our satisfaction ? "
To which I, in turn, asked: " Was that a rhetorical question ? "
I deliberately left a 1% gratuity for the invisible, obsequious waiter and in front of the restaurant manager generously tipped and thanked the busboy who’d done all the work .
After we’d finished a very forgettable dinner in what purported to be an upscale restaurant, the waiter who been scarce the entire meal ( the busboy served the meal ), glided to our table, the bill in hand, and asked: " Now, did we find everything to our satisfaction ? "
To which I, in turn, asked: " Was that a rhetorical question ? "
I deliberately left a 1% gratuity for the invisible, obsequious waiter and in front of the restaurant manager generously tipped and thanked the busboy who’d done all the work .
Needless to say, we never went there again.