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We go to restaurants so we can just sit down and enjoy our food and so we don't have to worry about cooking. This means that usually dining out is supposed to be fun and even relaxing. However, if you or the people you are at a restaurant with do certain things, it can really make the employees mad which can ruin the experience.

The Things You Should Always Avoid Doing When In A Restaurant Include:

Smoke an e-cigarette.
just never smoke an e-cigarette.

Walk into a restaurant at 11:45 when the kitchen closes at midnight
unless you want shitty service and a pissed-off kitchen crew.

No show, no call on a reservation.
Restaurants organize the structure of service around the size and time of booked reservations.

Attempt to bring your lap dog in because it’s a “service animal.”
Tiny dogs, often with rhinestone collars and little bows, carried into dining rooms in handbags that owners claim are “service animals”.

Split a check that is less than $30.
Let’s cultivate some reciprocity, friendly diners.

Order firing
We know that sometimes this can’t be avoided, but if you are in the habit of ordering an entree, like a large piece of protein or a pasta with nothing before it, you are going to have to wait.

Request that your food to be altered so it doesn’t look like an animal.
You ordered the whole roasted chicken. It came to the table with its foot attached. You request that it is taken back down to the kitchen and brought back to your table without its foot because you “feel bad” about eating a chicken that looks like a chicken.

Sit down at uncleared tables.
Sitting down at a messy table hinders the floor staff by making it harder to clean that table.

Say you have an allergy if you do not have a diagnosed allergy.

Not killing patrons through cross-contamination is kind of a priority in most restaurants, so if you are allergic to nuts, dairy, wheat, whatever, the kitchen will bend over backwards to accommodate you. But if you are trying to steer clear of gluten, it doesn’t mean you have celiac disease.

Get something to go and eat it out of the box in the restaurant.
Avoiding the tip while actually getting table service?

Leave your cell phone on the bar.
It’s not a place marker.

Tip $1 on a fancy drink.
If you are throwing down $15 for a well-made cocktail, you can afford to tip 20%.

Lie to host.
Lying about the number of people in your party to get a bigger table or so that you can sit immediately will not win you any friends at a restaurant.

Order fish on Sundays.
Seafood providers don't deliver on Sundays.

Just Don't Do It!

If you avoid doing these things at a restaurant, you will find that you server will be much more pleasant. Have you or someone you dined with done any of these before?

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Article Source: First We Feast