Thread: Ask a restaurant lifer anything....

so are all the horror stories we hear about when you piss a waiter/waitress off true? the whole spitting in the food deal?

Originally Posted by chidoks

so are all the horror stories we hear about when you piss a waiter/waitress off true? the whole spitting in the food deal?

While it *does* happen, this is something very rare. Very rarely will an employee spit in your food. However, if your request is stupid, your food is guaranteed to be mishandled, literally thrown together, and every piece of everything will probably get touched by hand. The proverbial "don't f**k with people who handle your food" is definitely true though.

Originally Posted by NFRs2000NYC

I actually don't like to eat in my own restaurants...I'm bored of the food.

Personally, I usually go to a few spots that I consider "home" and I try anything new that just opened up. There are lots of restaurants that have a dish or two that I love, so if I crave something particular, that's where I'll be. Most of the time, I like simple, comfort foods rather than Masa or Le Bernadin type cuisine. Let me think of a list and I'll stick one up here.

Awesome, I look forward to it. I was big into finding good "street meat" and holes-in-the-wall while I was at NYU, and while I've eaten at some of the ubiquitous sit-downs (Tao, Sushi Samba, Balthazar, Knickerbocker's etc), my restaurant experience is more limited.