Are you mixing various foods together like a child?

One of the major benefits of eating at a buffet is eating with multiple people that may not want to eat the same kind of food.

1. ability to gorge for cheap
































2. ability to eat with multiple people that may not want to eat the same kind of food

Tacos and mashed potatoes sounds good right now.

Sounds starchy.

:chortle:

If you haven't eaten a steam tray's worth of giant shrimp or crab from Bellagio you haven't lived. I get a soup bowl of sauce and spend a half hour dipping while I contemplate my plan of attack.

Then go to Applebee's. At least the mediocre food will be hot.

My eighth grade math teacher had a box of tissues for the class. Whenever someone asked for one, he would separate it from 2-ply to one.

Do your reviews appear anywhere online? We're simpatico on the joys (and relative worth) of fine dining so figured I'd ask what you thought.

If not online can you give a quick and dirty ranking?

Man, DD just won't shut up about CCF.

Maybe this is performance art and complaining about to go orders itt is the stingy thing

Got a good mom story over the holidays!

So last time my mom bought a car, it came with free OnStar for X months. Including Y minutes of phone calls.

At the end of the trial period, my mom realizes she hasn't used any of those minutes.

So she spends half a day sitting in her car (no doubt running the engine for much of it so she doesn't kill the battery) calling relatives across the country. Never mind that she has unlimited within the country on her home phone - nowai was she letting those minutes just expire.

wtf
you give a cocktail waitress a dollar for giving you a water off her tray
dollar a drink minumum plus a couple bucks extra if you're there a while

As far as I'm concerned, table service is completely unnecessary at a buffet, high- or low-end. If you're getting up to get your own food (multiple times for most people,) what's so inconvenient about getting your own drinks from a self-service station? Servers also run the risk of pissing people off by making them wait for their drinks. All they need are cocktail waitresses circulating for those of us who want alcohol, and that's not even necessary if there's a bar right there in the buffet (like Bellagio.) Add enough bussers to keep the empty plates cleared, and there's no reason to even have "servers." So, yeah, a dollar a person is fine.

^ Hear, hear!

I don't even need the empty plates cleared until I have left the table, and would prefer it done that way.

lol awesome

Meh, cheaper Vegas buffets have been fine to me. $10-15 for even bad buffet is still better than the alternatives on the Strip (ie. pretty much nothing in that price range). The difference in buffet quality also isn't worth $25 and the midrange restaurants haven't been particulary good. Infinite ice cream too :P

Maybe if you can afford $70+ dinner the quality goes up tremendously, but I'd imagine majority of people can't afford it.

geez.

There is a huuuuge difference in quality of buffet between Excalibur and Cosmopolitan.

I haven't posted here in a week. I also don't think I was complaining that badly. My main point over and over in this and the separate check thread is that there is a correlation between various behaviors of customers that all have the underlying theme of displaying a lack of consideration for other people. Not just servers, but for other customers as well. And there is a correlation between those who display these behaviors, and poor tippers, which in itself is definitely a lack of consideration. This should be a surprise to no one, and should be pretty damn obvious. My point in bringing up specific examples is to bring to light some examples that people might not be aware of that servers consider small signs of inconsiderate-ness.. Case in point, lots of people didn't know about the potential hassle about paying with a hundred, or doing separate checks, or asking for drinks to go, etc etc. None of these are even egregious actions, and I don't think I overly bitched about any one of them. So I'm not sure the reason for your slow pony jab, unless it was to bait me into coming out of hiding, in which case good job?

If the vast majority of non-server people do not know about the inconvenience and "lack of consideration" of paying with a hundred, either it cannot be correlated with poor tipping, or you are implying that the vast majority of (non server) people are poor tippers.

In general, a lack of knowledge on a subject shouldn't be confused with a lack of consideration of the same subject.

Finally, I'm still just going to outright disagree that poor tipping is correlated in any way with lack of consideration for the server. I'd guess that those people who are outright *******s to servers are probably poor tippers, but if guess that many of the best tips go to waiters who do their best to fade into the background as much as possible. Maybe this is different at chains or casual dining, but when I go out I in general want to enjoy the company I'm with and the food, drink, and atmosphere. I want to remember the waiter as little as possible, either for good or bad things.

But really, the first thing.

On the whole, it seems like ccf has somewhat major issues it can clean up, and that cleaning them up would make them a ton of money. It seems like it would be in your best interest to prep a one page doc for them and send it up the chain.

If I can ask a couple dumb questions:

1 - if changing hundreds is a huge pain, why not just bring more change at the start of the night (like a few hundred of your own money or something) and if you run out, and are carrying too many hundreds, change them out at a convenient time?

2 - if there a lack of receipt carriers is a thing that is slowing down table turnover significantly in your section, why not just buy a handful yourself?

Was driving one of my black friends home after basketball practice in high school. He asks me if I can stop at mcdonalds. I stop and place his order. He gets like $42 cents back in change and I hand it to him. He drops it between my seats. He goes "awe damn" and lifts up my center council and takes 3 quarters, then puts center council back down.

Cit, a table that shows awareness in general, tries to order in an organized manner, not run you around, etc – is always going to tip better. It just means they know what dining out entails. It's probably the strongest indicator there is.

Even though you like to be left alone, you probably don't ignore the server when they come to your table. Believe it or not people do that, and they are usually crappy tippers. Although certainly sometimes you get people like that who tip great. But you almost never get a "server aware" table that tips poorly.

And of course a good waiter should read you right off the bat and leave you alone as much as possible. Some people want to be fawned on, some want to be left alone. Any good waiter can tell the difference.

hahaha greear's story is awesome

I would have pulled over and asked him to get out. Did you say anything?

Story is funny.

Plus we have "$42 cents" and center councils.