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Laura PourMeADrink

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11. That does make a huge difference!!! If I get to travel

Reply to soldierant (Reply #8)

Thu Nov 18, 2021, 01:38 AM

Nov 2021

to a place with a high vaccination rate and the great restaurants are there - hard to resist.

But hard to imagine risking life and limb to go to red state Chili's just to go.

I have decided it is ALL about how much risk, you as an individual, given your unique circumstances, are willing to accept. For some who have the need to go out and be around a bunch of people, this has been particularly hard. For people who could not care less about that, it's no biggie

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This one goes out to every whiny brat restaurant customer [View all] swag Nov 2021 OP

the author should do the customers a favor and get a different job nt msongs Nov 2021 #1

? Skittles Nov 2021 #2

Odd reaction Hekate Nov 2021 #3

YES!!!! Totally agree. And what kind of restaurant is this Laura PourMeADrink Nov 2021 #4

Agreed, this person would likely whine no matter what. Jon King Nov 2021 #7

I am glad that your family has had that experience with this work. ramen Nov 2021 #9

Wow PJMcK Nov 2021 #20

And when she does, the reaction will be: "What? No sticktoitiveness?" Aristus Nov 2021 #22

I think we're still in the period when soldierant Nov 2021 #5

Huh? Lots of folks go to restaurants these days. Jon King Nov 2021 #6

You may not live in an area where you are surrounded by MAGAts. soldierant Nov 2021 #8

That does make a huge difference!!! If I get to travel Laura PourMeADrink Nov 2021 #11

Definitely true in the red areas. I've heard many servers complain about the way they're treated. catrose Nov 2021 #12

Wonder why that is? Because diners don't give a flip Laura PourMeADrink Nov 2021 #14

Yes, exactly. catrose Nov 2021 #15

I pick up food from restaurants Skittles Nov 2021 #10

Yes and that is a new phenomenon. Laura PourMeADrink Nov 2021 #13

I call it "pandemic tipping" Skittles Nov 2021 #16

+ Entitled and cheap asses in restaurants but for service workers as a whole it's not new luckone Nov 2021 #17

I have gone my entire life without ever being mean to a service worker Skittles Nov 2021 #18

Yep, I'm with you, Skittles PJMcK Nov 2021 #21

I appreciate them, they are performing a service for me Skittles Nov 2021 #23

My wife and I have gone out to eat regularly even before Tomconroy Nov 2021 #19