• West_of_West@piefed.social
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    1 day 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.

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      1 day 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