Cliff Bostock in his review of Spoon in Creative Loafing.
I’m not sure if I agree or not. I think some of my favorite servers I’ve ever had have been women. To me, a great server is friendly, but doesn’t hover. A great server knows the balance between being helpful and being annoying.
Times a server should come to your table:
-within a minute of you sitting down, take water order and any other drink orders
-bring water within 1-2 minutes and offer to take any other drink or app orders
-check back within 5 minutes to take final drink and/or food orders.
-bring app within 10 minutes
-clear plates almost as soon as they’re empty, always re-fill glasses when they get below half full.
-bring entree, and check back after 2 bites/2 minutes (This is an old OK Cafe Rule).
-clear plates and offer dessert, if they don’t want dessert, have the check ready to lay down.
That’s about 5-7 times you should see your server, not accounting for bus boys doing some of this work (clearing plates, refilling drinks).
Do y’all agree or disagree? Any memorable servers?
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