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Chan790

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4. Try this.

Reply to LynneSin (Original post)

Mon May 21, 2012, 11:44 AM

May 2012

"I'd like a cup of tea with room and a cup of ice on the side." You might get grief for wasting the cup but at-least you'd get hot tea without the ice." Do not specify that the ice is for the tea, dumb but helpful baristas will add the ice to the tea every goddamned time.

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This message was self-deleted by its author [View all] LynneSin May 2012 OP

I do the same thing. Lars39 May 2012 #1

Ask for a cup of tea, wink, and say Leave Room For Brandy JustABozoOnThisBus May 2012 #2

Yeah, that was my first thought. HopeHoops May 2012 #3

We used to have to tell customers that did that... Chan790 May 2012 #7

Try this. Chan790 May 2012 #4

Sometimes I do that but at this store they had a pitcher of ice water LynneSin May 2012 #12

IT IS YOU! You are apparently being intentionally terse with servers so you can bitch. Lionessa May 2012 #5

You would think I was pretty clear after she first added the ice to the cup LynneSin May 2012 #6

I feel like the defender of a server who was treated badly by a customer. Lionessa May 2012 #8

Defended how? I thought I was pretty darn nice up until the point of being ignored twice LynneSin May 2012 #9

Intentional obtuseness is never nice. You simply kept expectiing your terse Lionessa May 2012 #10

Obviously it's not working with you LynneSin May 2012 #11

Yep, by thelling them again what you don't want without telling them what you do. Lionessa May 2012 #13

As a former coffeehouse manager, I have made baristas come in for remedial training for less. Chan790 May 2012 #16

OMG, that sounds like a speech out of American Psycho or Zoolander! jobycom May 2012 #14

I did the 2nd time LynneSin May 2012 #17

Never heard of this 'leave enough room for ice' concept MicaelS May 2012 #15