"Doris Night" > wrote in message
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> On Sun, 5 Oct 2014 00:17:16 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> > wrote:
>
>>
>>"Ed Pawlowski" > wrote in message
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>>> The other night we stopped at a chain restaurant for dinner. We both
>>> ordered a dish with braised beef. When the waitress took the order, she
>>> asked "how would you like that cooked?". I told her it would be well
>>> done, but she told me the POS system gave options for beef.
>>>
>>> I guess they don't give good lessons about what is on the menu. She
>>> seemed to be fairly new and probably does not cook much for herself.
>>
>>Sadly I have noticed the wait staff often do not know how the food is
>>prepared or what is in it.
>>
>>I once asked what was on the house salad. The waitress just looked at me
>>like I was an idiot for asking and said it was just a salad with whatever
>>dressing I wanted. So I said, "Oh! No croutons or cheese then?" And she
>>told me of *course* there were croutons and cheese. So I asked her to
>>leave
>>those off and also the dressing.
>>
>>She then brought out a plate of greens with assorted vegetables, covered
>>with slices of hard boiled egg. *sigh* I then told her that I couldn't
>>eat
>>egg and could she please bring me a salad that was only the vegetables.
>>
>>And what did I get then? Just the greens. Apparently she didn't consider
>>carrots, celery, onions peppers and tomato to be vegetables.
>
> She may have thought that if she put all those things on your salad
> there would still be something that was offensive to you, and you'd
> send it back again.

No. She was just clueless. Couldn't tell me to begin with what all was on
there and that was the first time I had gotten a salad with egg where the
egg wasn't listed on the menu.