I’m not giving out any more plastic silverware!
Weird, bad tips, demon kids, drugs, stupid people Add commentsI’m sick and tired of it! Every few weekends a horde of people come in who are afraid of using our silverware, I guess out of fear of leftover spit on the fork. All night long last night I was either run for the plastic to-go silverware or cups of hot water to soak and polish their own. I know I’ve talked about this before, but it just got to me again tonight.
It was happening with such frequency tonight that these people weren’t even waiting until they put their orders in with me to order me to “brang us some hawt waddah” or “Where yall plassik fowks is? Why yall ain’ gottem on da counta like otha places?” If you are one of these obsessive compulsive people who are afraid to eat with restaurant silverware that you yourself have to polish it, then you have a problem and I think you should listen up.
Our silverware is soaked before we wash it, in high powered soap, designed for the purpose of pre-soaking silverware in restaurants. After it soaks for however long it takes to fill up the tub it’s soaking in, the silverware is then dumped into a large, dishwasher friendly rack, and is run through a very high temperature and high powered soap filled economy sized dishwashing machine! We run the silverware through the machine twice, to ensure optimal cleanliness. It’s then dumped into a lexan tub (large plastic tub for those of you who don’t know what I”m talking about), where it remains until servers get to it. The servers sort the silverware into wire racks, and run it back through the dishwasher another 2 times. They then soak the silverware in a pan of soda water, and polish each piece before it is rolled.
Knowing all of this, are you all that fucking worried about picking up a germ from the fork that you’ll infest with your gonasyphaherpiaids? If so, then just stop coming out to eat. I think I’m going to start charging for plastic silverware that isn’t given with to-go orders or to-go boxes. That shits expensive, and giving it out just because you’re afraid of the damn metal flatware is just fucking stupid. Bring your own, assholes.
It was also a shitty night for tips. I had a guy who after I ran his credit card, proceeded to stiff me and signed the credit card slip in the gratuity blank. Not in the part that says signature, in the part that very clearly says gratuity. If you have a credit card, you’ve probably used it at a restaurant, what would give you the idea that you put a name in the grat line instead of a fucking grat? Especially on a damn 38 dollar check. Leave something, the gods know I let you sit at my table for an hour without ordering anything but a fucking cup of coffee, you cost me money you fucking worthless bastard and I hope you die a horrible death of ebola and the black plague!
Had a black man refuse to eat anything that had “white cheese” on it, and when I told him the philly sandwich had “white american” cheese, he demanded cheddar saying, “I refuse to have anything in my mouth that’s named after a white guy. I’m African American.” I still haven’t figured out what he meant, except that he doesn’t like the color white, I guess because of his ancestry? I ended up pawning that table off on someone new.
Ran over a kid today, and dropped a tray of food on his foot. I was blamed for it, even though he was the one running around the place in circles. Why are these overactive fucking brats not hopped up on Ritalin or something? Why you ask? Because their parents have to save their money for more cocaine and heroin, and alcohol! That’s why they don’t even tip!
It was a long night…
Ribeye
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November 11th, 2007 at 8:23 am
I was just thinking about the plastic silverware weirdos last night! It used to happen to me a lot to- my question is, they will eat on the plates, right? The plates are washed inthe SAME DISHWASHER and come out of the SAME ROOM. What’s next, paper plates?
Maybe they were scarred by a miniscule smudge or piece of food one time. But if I’m paying to go out to eat, I want real silverware. Plastic is for bbq’s!
November 11th, 2007 at 9:54 am
I never even gave a thought about the silverware when eating out. I just assume that it’s clean. I mean, come on now folks……..after hearing how it’s cleaned at Ribeye’s place……now I KNOW it’s super duper clean!
November 11th, 2007 at 9:07 pm
As for the plastic silverware, why not approach management, so they get to make the rule about no plastic silverware unless it’s a to-go order?
After the cleaning your silverware gets, it’s cleaner than plastic is. Not to mention all the chemicals in plastic silverware.
Next time, tell the white cheese guy that you’re not white.. you’re Caucasian, or whatever-American.
November 11th, 2007 at 10:12 pm
…you clean your silverware a lot more thoroughly than my place does.
A LOT more thoroughly.
Ours just gets tossed into a rack, run through once, and then you’re at the mercy of the server. If you’re lucky, they actually bothered to polish it, and tossed the ones with lettuce firmly plastered on back into dish.
But…most people probably don’t want to know that.
I polish mine really, really well, if you’re wondering.
November 12th, 2007 at 1:09 am
actually the white cheese guy needs to realize that America is the only place that dyes it’s cheese. Everywhere else cheese is white.
November 12th, 2007 at 2:33 pm
Yeah ditto to Serving Wench, above–I have never worked in a place (and have worked in plenty) that soaked silverware 3 times and ran it through the machine 4 times. No way…actually I’m calling shenanigans on that (not the restaurant from Super Troopers…I’m saying you’re exaggerating).
Usually we would soak them then run them through once and then servers would polish them with napkins. Soda water??? Your boss must be extremely permissive with food costs.
I am decidedly not one of these people who must soak their silver, but my grandmother taught me to wipe it off with my napkin when i sat down in a restaurant…and that’s what i do.
November 12th, 2007 at 3:20 pm
ya know, if i was sitting on the other side of the screen reading it, I’d probably call shenanigans on it too, except for the fact that our staff for 3 months had so many complaints about filthy silverware. I dont know if it’s going to stay like it is, but it’s been this way for a couple of months now. we’ve got the product cost to be able to use the soda water, and we’re still babysitting most of the servers to make sure it gets done properly
November 12th, 2007 at 9:34 pm
Funny you mention this. I had a regular GHETTO customer, who always asked for a plastic fork and knife. Weird. Used to piss me off though. Weirder, He was our garbage man and used to park his smelly truck in the restaurants parking lot. I called his garbage bossman on him for parking a stinky garbage truck in my parking lot in front of my eating establishment.
November 12th, 2007 at 9:37 pm
I hit the submit button too quik!!!
Needless to type, that Ghetto trash truck driver that wouldn’t eat with hand-washed silverware isn’t allowed to dine with me anymore.