I’d like to speak to the manager!!!

Summer is definitely here.

Our numbers have increased.

But.

More importantly the grumpy people have increased a million times over.

I told one server tonight to just preface her issue with “the summer people are here.”

Tonight a server asked a table how they’d like their steak cooked. He said charred.

She explained that charred wasn’t a temperature.

This he began to berate her.

Being difficult for the sake of being difficult.

She asked if he wanted it Pittsburg style.

He said no because that was raw in the middle.

He continues to lecture her.

She finally ordered it Pittsburgh medium.

He didn’t complain.

Then table 25 gets their steak.

Send it back because it’s over cooked.

The server brings it to the kitchen. It had been ordered medium.

In the kitchen.

Under the bright lights.

It was a perfect medium.

I’m called to the kitchen to be shown the steak.

I’m told to go speak to the table.

I do.

I explain the steak is a perfect medium. Etc. etc.

The guest says. And I repeat. I did not order a medium steak. I ordered it pink.

Pink is not a temperature.

Pink is not choice.

The guest takes the steak back.

Then at the first opportunity in front of the server makes a show of pushing it aside.

He of course took the steak home with him in a doggy bag.

One of my servers tonight said we should offer our guest a tract like the Jehovah Witnesses. We’ll call it an Introduction to our Lord and Savior: Common Sense.

It would lay out the rules of eating in a restaurant.

I couldn’t agree more.