Servers Need to Stop Saying “hows Everything Tasting?” Feat John .c Reilly
Summary
How's everything tasting?" This corporate-scripted phrase has one rider fired up about the state of modern restaurant service. He tells Kareem that waiters need to stop invading the intimate space of his mouth with their weirdly programmed check-ins. It's disgusting. The even worse offender? "How are the first bites?" The conversation spirals into a broader confession: this guy really doesn't like watching people eat, comparing it to staring into someone's mouth at a table. Kareem pushes back. He's fine with it.
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So what's your take? I feel like waiters started to get trained by like corporate consultants and they started to say this one phrase that I find disgusting. What is it? How's everything tasting?
100% agree, right? I don't like it when they—when they say get out of my mouth. This is an intimate space. I don't want you to ask about how things are tasting. How, how is everything, you know, you like, "How is everything?" Yeah, it's fine. You like, "How's everything going?" Yeah, it's good to check in. Get—yeah, that's okay.
The other really annoying one is, "How are the first bites?" Oh, what the hell is that? "How are the first bites?" I'm out. And it's weirdly like consistent, like a pre-programmed line. "How's everything tasting?"
What other TT do you have? I really do not like to see people eat.
I'm going 100% disagree with that, really. I like when I see people eat. You wouldn't stare in someone's mouth while they're eating at a table, right? "How's everything tasting?