On Thu, 9 Jul 2015 06:20:03 -0700 (PDT)
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On Thursday, July 9, 2015 at 2:12:28 PM UTC+1, DerbyBorn wrote:
A nice thing about a holiday is being served properly even in an
inexpensive restaurant. Why do we put up with having to queue at
the bar with our table number in the UK? I am sure that if they had
a roving waiter with one of those electronic things that transmits
the order to the kitchen they would sell more food as people would
be more inclined to order extras. Nothing worse than getting to the
head of the queue at the bar and then having to go back and ask "Is
that with peas or beans?" I hate it after a meal when grandson
decides a sweet would be nice and I have to go back to the bar and
repeat the process. If there was a waiter we might all have a sweet
every time and another round of drinks.＃＃. (Gripe over)

That's what you get for eating at a pub pretending to be a
restaurant, along with microwaved food more often than not. There are
plenty of inexpensive restaurants with table service, there are
plenty of pubs with restaurant sections with table service. Take your
business elsewhere if you don't like the level of service offered.
Don't forget to tip your waiter if he has done his job well.

Philip

Yup. We have two pubs in our village, one of which has always had a
waitress-service restaurant included, the other is a spit-and-sawdust
pub, in which the owner now serves food in the evenings in the lounge.
He is often the waiter. Both places take your order at your table.
I don't even know of a place locally such as is described by DerbyBorn.
Must be a provincial, or big city, thing.

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Davey.