The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for June 26, 2016

Someone else who’s a big loser…

Ok your meals are ready, Kid, you’re the meatball, Alfredo, here is your meal, and lady, you’re the clam.

I actually have dined in a restaurant where the waiter didn’t write down a thing…. and everything was right when it arrived. Near-perfect dining experience marred only by the long wait to get in…and the gimpy chair I sat in (uneven leg).

Most servers don’t write down your orders these days.I would have trouble finding the table when I returned with the food.

I once knew a young man who could serve a table of 10 and not write anything down and everyone was served correctly.

Sounds like you guys are getting pizza.

Once restaurants switch to the computer terminals that the servers input the orders, instead of giving a ticket to the kitchen, many are asking their servers to memorize the orders. I’d much rather a server wrote notes to themselves, so they don’t get confused before they get the order entered. At least the restaurant we go to often, we try to get a server who knows us. They usually can remember the choices we pick, since we often order them, which helps to get the order correct. Still, I’d prefer they wrote stuff down, instead of trying to look impressive (or save the restaurant $ on order pads).

When I was in high school I had a waitress once that served all 30 of us in one room, separate checks, mostly, and got everything right on the first try even when several changed their order. We left her a combined tip of well over $200. It was the best trick of memory I’ve ever seen.