or support staff can be very fast. To make sure I get to keep eating I’ve learned to be faster. It is hard to shift gears some times when I am having a nice relaxed time and a wonderful conversation but I like to decide...

was in the server’s head? How do you know she was too lazy to write anything down? How do you know she was gearing up for a confrontation? You said yourself this thread isn’t about crystal ball readings yet...

denominator and live off faded reputations or the ignorance of their customers. Is that the Chowhound way? As for the employees, no one is forced to work at an overpriced restaurant geared towards tourists. Maybe everyone should...

Had my second trip to Radio Maria tapas bar, and I have to say this is good stuff. Their tapas fare consists of more light-type stuff (empanadas, little burgers of chorizo-blended meat, meat skewers) than Cafe Luna, which is more...

not working perfectly every time. they work well as team leaders and as a result they get 100% from their co-workers or sous in this case. lisa’s a negative, raging, blaming, obnoxious control freak who crumples under...

was geared up to do my usual 25% tip on drinks if we held the table longer than a usual seating. . and THEN the owner pointed at me and accused me of lying to her when I said we would eat and not just drink (every person at the...

, then wouldn’t her wording be geared towards the masses? If she is, as it seems she is, writing towards the wine aficionado, then why write on a subject already so extensively covered, that her audience has already read before?...

The cheese industry (I am talking big business) is huge here and pretty dominant. The regulation and training are all geared to pasteurized (ostensibly entirely for health reasons), bland industrial type mass-market cheeses. So...

more geared toward turning over tables, whereas you can expect most restos in Germany to not only save your table cum tempore, but letting you linger as long as you want to. And yet they obviously manage to make a profit. Go...

say, it doesn’t make a lot of sense to slaughter a cow for dinner on the trail. It doesn’t take as many people as most people think to drive a couple of hundred head of cattle. The size of a herd had to be geared to...

Went to two this year: The Oval Room and Vidalia. Some thoughts... The Oval Room was its usual phenomenal self. The entire menu was geared to RW with only one lone dish — black bass — requiring an upcharge. Although...

The thing that grinds my gears the most (in a very long list) about Sandra Lee is that she uses frozen, pre-chopped onions. Frozen onions! Not only are they mushy, tasteless and impossible to caramelize, they take literally one...

by a wine that I’ve rushed out and bought it retail. I tend to agree that these lists are more geared to what will appeal to the most common ground, because after all, they are there to move product. Not to say I...

of bad wine. I’d rather receive nothing, truth be told. And last but not least – do not give me knick-knacks (unless you know me really well), there is only so much cupboard space in the house and that’s full of...

that everyone is a nerd. It’s nice, because we have cool stainless-steel industrial gear like griddles and jumbo mixers, but last year, when I was cooking alone, it was pretty hard to get a whole meal ready in 5 hours.