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Friday, September 10, 2010

Secrets Your Waiter Will Never Tell You!

  • The "Special" is whatever they need to sell before it goes bad.  Yum!
  • If the dessert on the menu says "homemade", it probably is....by the bakery down the street.
  • Even at the best breakfast buffet in the world, 99 out of 100 times the scrambled eggs are made from a powder.
  • In most restaurants after 8pm or so, all the coffee is decaf....no one wants to clean two different pots.
  • Salads are often made up to 3 days earlier.  They sit on a tray in the refrigerator with lots of other salads until ordered.  Fast, but is it really worth it?
  • If you don't like something, don't eat it!  Send it back and order something else!
  • Fish is usually delivered twice a week so Tuesday through Friday are the best days to order those dishes.  Or ask when the restaurant get theirs.
  • You're more likely to get noticed as a "regular" on Mondays, Tuesdays or Wednesdays.  "Regulars" sometimes get special treatment like an extra glass of wine you aren't billed for or a sample from the kitchen.
  • You know that lemon in your tea?  It wasn't washed.  Just cut up and thrown into a big tub that all the waiters reach into when they are lovingly preparing your yummy iced tea.