• Smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    They wait until you take a bite. I swear.

    I’m gonna start getting them to wait until after I’ve swallowed to answer them.

    • West_of_West@piefed.social
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      23 hours ago

      Former server/bartender here: we don’t.

      You only really have a five minute window to check whether there is an issue with the food, so you pop the question whenever you walk by the table.

      • makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world
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        23 hours ago

        Yeah, you can’t check when they get it because they haven’t eaten, if you wait 20 minutes it’s too late. You’re at a restaurant presumably because you’re hungry so what are you mostly doing right when the food gets there? Eating. It’s just the nature of things