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I respect it. I'm not looking to be served by an outright asshole, but I'm no fan of servility or unnecessary deference. As long as he gets the job done, he's welcome at the table any time. Hell, join us for the meal, make light conversation about the history of the place. It'd be memorable.
I'm pretty sure I've mentioned this in another post, but I was in Paris one afternoon and stopped off at one of the Hard Rock Cafes - I like the memorabilia, and rather than buy fridge magnets from my travels, I try and get a Hard Rock Cafe shirt. Anyway...
The waiter comes up, and I'm battling through in basic French, trying to be careful and not be another tourist that made an arse of it, and generally doing my absolute best to not annihilate the beautiful language I was trying to converse in.
I ended one of the sentences with "je suis desole, mon Français est vraiment mauvais", a crude bit of self-awareness and a nod to an understanding that it wasn't perfect.
The waiter says in accented English "yes, your French is a bit shit"
I laughed and appreciated the honesty; he laughed because he got to rip the piss out of a Brit; and we all lived happily ever... except for my bank account, because fuck me drinks in the city centre were pricey.
Anyway, I like staff who are direct and don't fuck about.
Our families thing was finding hard rock cafe t shirts from places that very definitely do not have an actual hard rock cafe. I think my dad's "Hard Rock Cafe Bujumbura"(capital city of Burundi) is the winner.
Brilliant. I never thought of collecting comedy knock-off stuff like that!
If I had the time and effort, it would probably be quite a good business idea too, particularly if mixed in with geek culture. Hard Rock Cafe Alderaan; Hard Rock Cafe Pallet Town; Hard Rock Cafe D'ni; Hard Rock Cafe Winterfell etc etc.
I would 1000% wear a Hard Rock Alderaan shirt!
...now I'm gonna be editing shit in GIMP when I should be doing something constructive, lol.
Now?
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hard_Rock_Cafe_Logo.svg
After a bit of research, the font for the city is "The sans caps bold" in lowercase.
I work 3rd shift, so I can't play in GIMP until I get home
Nice. Keep me posted please.
When I was a little kid I had one from Entenhausen (Duckburg)
Oh man, I've got one at home I got from Europe 20 some years ago. I hope to remember to get you a picture when I return
It says "Hard Rock Cafe Prague" in orange letters that don't match their font on a black sweater. 1000% unlicensed and I love it (I'm pretty sure that is the correct city)
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Hard Rock Cafes can sometimes be kind of hidden gems, surprisingly. But they are quite pricey because of the brand and memorabilia.
They are owned by the Seminole Tribe of Florida since 2018, which I find notable.
To be fair, he says that to every foreigner
Shame, I felt special for a moment!
you said french is a beautiful language so i don't know if i believe any of your story
We had that once in Germany, the restaurant was right besides an old piece of the former wall between east and west Germany. The waitress, an elderly women, was not just incredibly kind but when we were eating our second course she asked us if we cared to know more about East Germany and how it was like living there. In the end we were drinking our coffee besides multiple old books full of pictures from this region. Absolutely amazing experience.
Oh, that's lovely.
unless there's already four at the table and he wants them to scooch over to take the order
You had me until the history bit, I don't want some minimum wage worker doing their best to give me the corporate spiel. If you're gonna sit at my table while im eating and talk, tell me something about yourself.
If they're the owner or a dedicated employee and they're passionate about the restaurant then i think it's fine. As long as it's a single location with a history.
in the same vein, there was one restaurant i used to go to where the owner would regularly show up, cook and serve food, and insult the customers in a charismatic way. He was really good at it too. If you told him to eat shit he'd tell you to fuck off and enjoy your food.
I completely agree with you for any chain tho.
I'm on the other side of that.
I'm not paying to pretend be your friend I'm paying you to serve me my food get the fuck out of that chair... is my thought.
I had this happen to me once in San Francisco and me and wife were taken aback and offended.
lmfao
don't you know not to denigrate the lordship by seating yourself on equal elevation while receiving orders‽
It's a complete breach of basic social etiquette to sit down at somebody's table and talk to them like you know them, it's baffling to me that you don't get that- actually it's not that baffling really
I agree you shouldn't do it but to say you're offended is weird as fuck and wreaks of classism.
I was in hospitality for 15 years until I injured my back and had to leave the industry. I never sat at people's tables when taking orders, but do you have any idea what it's like to stand 10 hours a day, most days with no break at all? The amount of foot pain? And you get told off if you sit down even when there's no customers. Sometimes customers would rock up and get upset that I was sitting on a stool when it had been like 3 hours since the last customers had been through and I was doing stock take at the till. Like what the fuck. I'm not your servant, you're not paying nearly enough for that. Get off your high horse and get over yourself.
I now have life long back pain and nerve damage after spinal surgery at 30 because of the stress hospitality put my body through and people like you were part of the reason. Don't go out if you don't want to talk to people.
You're not paying them anything my dude they are labouring under capitalism like you are.
I'm taken aback and offended by your attitude and if that's irrelevant to you, congrats, you understand
Yeah right? This is the behavior that causes someone to get caught drunk driving and tell the cop "My taxes pay your salary, let me go"
Damn dude I honestly feel bad for you if this is how you view life lol. Sounds like a pretty miserable existence ☹️
What a rude thing to say, I don't think you feel bad for them at all, sounds like you just like being mean under the veneer of sympathy.
Damn dude I honestly feel bad for you if this is how you view life lol. Sounds like a pretty miserable existence ☹️
Pretend to be your friend? They were just taking your order. Why do you care if they are sitting or standing while they do?
Get angry at the right people.