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Dining Out - Pleasurable or Painful?
southendmd:
--- Quote from: Lynne on January 11, 2009, 12:26:26 pm ---Have you noticed this tendency for the server to seat him/herself across from you to take your order? After they've introduced themselves, naturally. Maybe I'm being snobby, but this seems overly familiar. Though in sympathy, you know their feet hurt, but it's not enough of a break to make a difference. Plus, in my day, I would have been fired!
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Lynne, you're far from snobby! No, I've never encountered this. Yes, that's way overly familiar. If that happened to me, I'd probably ask, "Oh, are you joining us? How lovely!"
Lynne:
--- Quote from: southendmd on January 11, 2009, 12:34:08 pm ---Lynne, you're far from snobby! No, I've never encountered this. Yes, that's way overly familiar. If that happened to me, I'd probably ask, "Oh, are you joining us? How lovely!"
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:laugh: :laugh:
I've noticed it at chains like O'Charleys, Longhorn, Applebee's, etc...I think it only happens to single diners.
jstephens9:
--- Quote from: DavidinIndy on January 11, 2009, 12:24:24 am ---Around here the problem isn't small portions. The portions are much too large. I always have to ask for a doggie bag and I end up bringing half of my dinner home with me. I suppose that really isn't a problem, but it mystifies me why they want to serve such massive amounts of food. :-\
Hoovering waiters can be annoying too, unless they are cute... and single! ;)
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I agree David that the portions are much too large, but it is true that you can also end up with two meals. I don't understand why they do serve such massive amounts of food, but of course I would be mad if they were small portions. What I always find that is funny that places like Applebees, Chili's, Red Lobster, Olive Garden, etc., etc. are so down on the fast food places when in reality because of the big portions of food it seems that eating everything on your plate at those places would result in more weight gain than that cheeseburger at McDonalds, Burger King, etc. At one point in time I was going out to lunch pretty much every day with a group from work. We would go to the places like Applebees, etc. and I definitely gained weight. The portions were huge. I quit doing that a few years ago. It saved me a lot of money too since that was a good $12 a day or more for lunch usually.
jstephens9:
--- Quote from: DavidinIndy on January 11, 2009, 03:35:51 am ---:laugh:
I wonder if they are one and the same Lee?!
They have the same appetite at least, don't they?
Adam on the Travel Channel is a bit pudgy, but he looks very cuddly and huggable... like a teddy bear. I'd go for him. He has a cute personality too, which is very important.
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Different Adam David. The Adam Lee is talking about is definitely not pudgy.
jstephens9:
--- Quote from: DavidinIndy on January 11, 2009, 01:28:02 am ---We have some of those restaurants around here too Kerry. Most of them are either located downtown or in the more ritzy areas of Indy such as Carmel, Zionsville and Broad Ripple. But I know what you mean about the "three bites and it's gone" deal.
Since Indianapolis is a Midwestern city, meat and potatoes tend to be the most popular types of fare around here and restaurants in this area often serve landlubber dishes, or surf and turf. We have lots of very high class steak restaurants, although there are other types of restaurants too. But the size of those steaks are unbelievable. I can't finish something that big!
I was watching a show on the Travel Channel called "Man vs Food" and Adam (the star of the show) sat down and ate a 72 oz steak, along with a baked potato, rolls and a salad in 29 minutes. I'll never understand how he did it. I have a difficult time finishing a 12 oz steak! :P
Adam is quite cute btw! :D
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I like those shows on the Travel channel where they show different restaurants in different cities that specialize and are famous for something. I saw one last week about famous Cheeseburger places. I love Cheeseburgers by the way. When I was in Los Angeles I ate at the place that created the French Dip sandwich and the strange thing is that the dip is actually in the sandwich. You don't dip the sandwich. It is a very old place and it was very good. I ate at a famous cafeteria there too and the food was absolutely great. It's kind of funny that LA gets such a bad rap from many people when I found it to be a very interesting and historical city.
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