This article is so true!

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Nodding in agreement to all of it.

Except for the tipping, value, and surcharge issues I can't relate. Noisier? Less choices on the menu? Not problems.

QR codes? I just don't eat at places with no physical menus.

Honestly, I wouldn't eat at a sit down restaurant at all if it weren't for mystery shopping. I don't enjoy it, I never have. I've yet to experience one of those QR code menu things, hopefully I won't have to. I DO have my phone with me, but I was raised before cell phones, and while it's always with me, I'd be just as happy to leave the forking thing in my wallet.. But I'm also very conscious of folks near my table, especially servers and managers. When I see them coming, or when my son does, we both say something, and put our phones face down on the table. Holding your phone, looking at your phone, and not paying attention to the people who are trying to feed you and make you happy is just plain rude, and I don't like when snotty rotten little kids do it to me. It does piss me off when I see my server standing somewhere in the restaurant, even if they aren't very busy, looking at their phones while they are working.

As a mechanic when cell phones were new, we were told to leave them in our cars, or that we couldn't use them while we were at work, except at lunch, and not even on our 15 minute break time (union fleet service) because that was "company time." But that all changed, everybody got used to cell phones being everywhere all of the time. And the last 15 years of my career we were expected to have a phone, that the company didn't pay for, so that we could coordinate with the shop while we were out picking up vehicles for service, or taking the warranty jobs to the dealerships, or broken down because of idiot phone technicians not telling us what was really wrong with the trucks when they sent in a repair ticket.

I agree and it is a shame. We always seem to get seated near a windbag that speaks loudly and constantly.

It seems I get seated by the kitchen door! They talk really loud!

@jgardn02 wrote:

I agree and it is a shame. We always seem to get seated near a windbag that speaks loudly and constantly.

@ArkLaMissshopping wrote:

It seems I get seated by the kitchen door! They talk really loud!

@jgardn02 wrote:

I agree and it is a shame. We always seem to get seated near a windbag that speaks loudly and constantly.

I hate being seated by the kitchen door. As if I am not one of the "beautiful people". I always ask for another table.

I like having a wall behind me, so by the kitchen door, or the restroom isn't a bad thing. And I know for a fact that I'm not one of the pretty people and they are going to hide me as best they can.

^^Ask to be seated at a more desirable table. It's a bad thing to be seated by a restroom! And you are not to be hidden! ^^

You are beautiful. You are important. You are amazing. You are brave.

That's wise to sit with your back to a wall. No one can surprise you unless they drop out of the ceiling, and honestly, if they put that much effort into it, they've earned the pleasure. Of course, if you eat at home, you don't have to worry about that... mostly. It's a shame they couldn't expand the article and make that reason #14.

@ArkLaMissshopping wrote:

You are beautiful. You are important. You are amazing. You are brave.

Ummm.. thanks, but those are all lies. I'm a short fat old woman who is the spitting image of her father only with brown hair (now mostly gray) and boobs. I may or may not be important and/or amazing. But not beautiful, not by a long shot.

I prefer having a wall behind me and the door where I can see it. I have an ex-husband and more than one ex-lover who wish me harm. None of them can find me where I live now, but I've had a false sense of security before, I'm not taking any chances (mostly) now. I will sit at a table in the middle of the room IF I can face the door.

Eating out tends to be a waste of time, plus it’s way overpriced. I hate the eavesdroppers, the bad music and poor service. We prefer to eat at home because I have a decent repertoire of meals that are restaurant quality or better. Am I willing to cook every day? Absolutely not. I’ve learned that cooking for others is enjoyable when it’s not forced or expected. The alternative is take out brought to me that I can live with. Being a germaphobe who gets sick when food is left out a minute too long does have its challenges though. I have to know the place first. The bathroom faucets for dam sure better have hot water on demand or it’s a no go.