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Eating in resturants on your own
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Ok heres a question for you all.
"Whats wrong with eating in a resturant on your own?"
I'm asking this because of a few comments i heard today while eating in a resturant in Greenwich today. I travel abit with my job and normally on my own, going from customers site to site (maritime colleges) the last few days i've been working at the National Maritime Musuem in London, Updating and fixing a few issues with the simulator i installed last year.
But today i went into a resturant (tapas) in greenwich (hotel menu sucks big time). When i asked for a table for 1, the staff gave me and each other really funny looks. They asked me how many for. I had to repeat myself 3 times before they should me to a seat. They i listerned to the people on the tables around me, they all seemed to have a problem with me sitting there on my own.
"Whats wrong with eating in a resturant on your own?"
I'm asking this because of a few comments i heard today while eating in a resturant in Greenwich today. I travel abit with my job and normally on my own, going from customers site to site (maritime colleges) the last few days i've been working at the National Maritime Musuem in London, Updating and fixing a few issues with the simulator i installed last year.
But today i went into a resturant (tapas) in greenwich (hotel menu sucks big time). When i asked for a table for 1, the staff gave me and each other really funny looks. They asked me how many for. I had to repeat myself 3 times before they should me to a seat. They i listerned to the people on the tables around me, they all seemed to have a problem with me sitting there on my own.
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A resturant is a good way to get a duty free meal thats better than mac and cheese. Just becasue your alone it shouldn't stop you!
I wouldn't look twice at someone sat in a restaurant on their own tbh.
By the way, can I just ask this (really sorry to hijack the thread) when I was in Ireland, every resturant I went to, the server would take the order, somebody would bring it out, then they would come back with the check, but only when you asked. Is that normal or did they just not like us? We were always really friendly and accomidating.
Never once did they come back and ask how things were (usually they ask half a dozen times) They didn't even come and ask for refills once!!!
I think they are the problem mates... Probably just some morons... Again...
Agree totally.
I'd do it all the time if I travelled for work and they were footing the bill.
Definitely sounds like the other customers who were remarking/staring are just knobbers...and the waiting staff should be a bit more professional. You win some, you lose some, as always.
my expences are funny i'm alouded £17.48 on beer/wine/spirts per nite. who the hell thinks up these numbers.
£17.48???
Enough for a pint in London.
That's crazy! Even if the staff were sad because it was less money, what was with the people around? It makes no sense! :crazyeyes: Unless you went at a place called "the couples' restaurant" or something like that!
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Over here at least, some places bring the check as soon as they bring the food, others bring it only when you ask. It makes more sense to not bring it before you ask, since you might decide to order something more later. Why have two checks instead of one?
As for the refills, it makes more sense too. You ordered one bottle of whatever (or however many you ordered), if you want any more just ask.
(To avoid misunderstandings: there was no angry tone to the above, just explaining my opinion)
But they never came around to ask. I ment really, is it normal for the wait staff to never come around again? They never asked how things were, if they could get anything for you or anything! Never saw them but at the very begining and very end. I thought that was horrible, but it was the same at every place we ate!
Personally, I'm kind of annoyed if I'm having a conversation with others on a table and the water/tress interrupts us to ask if we're ok.
Again, since you might want something more or might not want something more, IMO it only makes sense that you should be the one to tell them.
The fucking cunts... why don't they just mind their own business..
How are you to ask them if they never walk by? And just in my opinion, I find it rude if they dont ask how things are and if you need anything. If I need to ask them for things and if they dont ask me stuff and come by every once in a while to check, then they dont get a good tip. Why tip when they did nothing but write down what I want.
SOrry for the randomness, anyways, eating alone... its aok in my book
But for the rest, I stick to what I've said: Why ask if you need anything more? It's much more likely that your first order will be your final, so if you want something more ask.