(Renee)
>wrote:
>
>> I think that I'd rather be bothered than be ignored. Happened to me
>> last night. I hated to do it, but after begging for my check and then
>> begging for my change, I simply left half of a torn dollar bill on the
>> table. I'm hoping the message was understood.
>>
icu wrote ?:

>That was cold.
>
We had a similar sort of experience today. It was a nice fall day and we
wanted to go out for drinks on the patio of a place we have gone to for years.
This is just a burger joint, but they play only classical music and their
burgers get high ratings by reviewers every year, it seems (Denver isn't the
burger town, for sure). As we ordered our last drink we asked for our bill.
When the drink (we split a last beer) arrived, so did the bill, so I put out a
twenty and the waitress said she'd be back with change. She never came back,
although we saw other waiters going to and fro. We thought the shift had
changed or something. I said we should just go inside to the bar on our way
out and ask for our change. My husband said he'd go inside and take care of
it. He came back to the patio after 10 or so minutes. Our waitress had been
sitting at the bar talking to a friend or someone, and apparently two other men
were in line before my husband with some sort of similar complaint. Then we
had to wait another 10 minutes for our waitress to return with our change. She
gave us an abrupt apology and was off. We usually tip 20% even for drinks
alone, but I left one dollar, which was less than 10%.

We will go back there as we just like the place and usually have no problem
with service.

Yeah, Mr. Schidt, I'm sure you've been there before.

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