Sunday, January 21, 2007

Good Service Is A Bad Thing?

 Phil and I have gone out to eat twice this week and both times the service was exceptionally fast and good.  In fact, the service has been so good that after this last time we were trying to think of places that would be more crowded so that our service would be slower.  We both knew the idea of it all was quite backwards, but both times we went out to eat we had to turn our waitresses away multiple times before we were ready to order.  Had we sat down and decided what to order before starting to talk there wouldn't be an issue, but our problem is that we start talking before we are ready to order.  Our waiter/waitress, seeing us in deep conversation and no longer looking at the menu, comes by because he/she thinks we are ready to order.  We then have to send him/her away and get back to looking over the menu.  That only lasts a minute or two before the menu is forgotten and we get caught up in another topic of conversation.  I think the the process repeated itself about four times both times we went out to eat.   What's more, even at Starbucks the coffees were made exceptionally fast, although Phil already knew what he was getting and I ended up getting the drink that the guy behind the counter recommended, so we didn't run into the ordering problem there.  That is not to imply that the service is usually slow at Starbucks. Starbucks happened to be the location of the place where we were discussing our good service problem and so it is lumped in with the other two instances. 

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