There are times when you go out to eat, that the restaurant you are at, is gonna run out of something. It’s not the end of the world, it’s not a personal attack on you to screw up your entire life, shit just happens.
Some people take this all in stride and say “Okay, then I’ll go with my second choice.” They didn’t get their feathers ruffled and demand to know how this could happen. They simply made another selection, and life goes on.
I used to work at a place whose specialty was roast beef. On rare occasions, everyone who walked through the wanted the same thing, they all ordered the roast beef, and we would run out. People would find it incredulous that we could run out of roast beef. “This is a beef place, how could you run out?!?”
My standard answer was always, “Better we should run out, then try and serve you old shit.” This usually caused them to stop and think for a moment. It’s not like we had the herd grazing out back ready to jump into the oven. There’s 50 other things on the menu, make a choice. When you were a kid, and your mother made meatloaf for dinner, but you wanted fried chicken, did she run to the store, buy some chicken and hurry home to cook it for you? I don’t think so. (Reflect on that, it was a learning experience.)
Then there are the ones who hit you with, "I order that every time I'm here!" Then get all indignant.
"Hey, take a walk on the wild side, venture forth and try something else. you may even find something you like just as much.....or.....dare we even say it, you may find some thing you like better!"
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