Last weekend wife and I went out to eat, to an upper-end, local restaurant. Water and soda was served in plastic cups. This is not a plastic cup type of place. Tablecloths on the table and linen napkins. My wife was like "WTF" and I said "they can't find dishwashers and this is their solution."
Anyone else see anything wacky like this? Someone told me recently that take out containers for restaurants has more than tripled in price since the beginning of the pandemic.
I've been served plastic eating utensils at IHOP. Plastic glasses at every strip club that I have been to lately.
It's probably covid related. I've seen it at some fine dining places. I don't really like it. Their prices are the same or higher so they should be making up for it in some way. I donno if you guys have boa steakhouse. But eating their food with plastic cutlery at their prices is a rip off but it's worth it
Why didn't you just ask the server? I'm dubious any restaurant would wash glasses by hand, not in an automatic dishwasher. Even if the border patrol wasn't keeping all the low-wage hand washers out of the country. Probably most of the people Cheetolini separated from their kids and put in cages would have hand-washed your glass. But now they're going to get $450,000 each in compensation, so the work doesn't appeal to them anymore lol.
you still need unskilled labor to bus tables, load the dishwasher, unload said dishwasher, and put stage/put away the dishes
CBP is not keeping illegals out. They are flying them all over the country and resettling them in unwarned communities at our own expense
It was Obama, not Trump, who started the practice of separating children from the adults for the childrens' own safety. Those famous pictures of kids behind fences are from Obama's administration. It was the almost the right thing to do. Trump actually did do the right thing and kept them in Mexico or deported them back to their country of origin when caught.
They are still illegals. They cannot be employed in the US, although they still get welfare despite not paying any taxes and not contributing to our economy.
That's your daily dose of truth. You're welome.
I was only given plastic utensils once, a long while ago, at a full service barbecue restaurant near New Orleans. I never went back.
More plastics in the ocean, I guess….
I eat less and less in restaurants as time goes on just because it’s hard to get a healthy meal in them. My last several restaurant meals were served with real glasses but I don’t eat out enough to know if that’s the norm.
To lean the reasoning towards not enough labor versus COVID I have a buddy who manages a similar style restaurant locally as well. His main gripe (currently) is he can’t find dishwashers. He said eventually a few undocumented workers will come by and he’ll hire them, pay them in cash, but there’s none around right now. He hasn’t gone the plastic cup route but he said some nights he’s the one washing the dishes.
I was like DAMN, he’s a small intimate restaurant but on some weeknights he’ll do 80 seatings and he’s only open for dinner.
Everything where we go is the same as before, just more expensive due to Bidenflation.
Wow that restaurant must pay shit. Don't go back.
I haven't seen this. Sounds like a shite excuse to serve plastic cups. If you are fine dining there is no excuse for that.
No offense, but these sound like high class problems to me! 🧐 Hell, I remember being damn near excited to stand in an inordinately long line outside of Costco because I was just happy to be out of the house. If the pandemic has done anything for me, it's made me appreciate a lot of little things and not sweat the small stuff even more so than before. I'll drink out of plastic, paper, a flask brought from home...whatever! It's just good to be out in the world again 🔆💋
^ Your positivity has been missed around here. 🥺
^Thank you, that really means a lot 🤗 I stayed away when it was harder to be positive... it's good to be back on all levels 🔆
Seems like last time I was at Treasure Club was first time since pandemic started they were back using glasses and not plastic
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Can’t say I’ve ran into this problem downhere in SoFlo – off the top of my head the only thing I recall has been at IHOP where they still don’t have syrup and condiment bottles on the table like they used to and now they give you a small individual to-go ones even when dining in – I assume they are still doing this b/c of Covid but I think it’s overkill at this stage especially for SoFlo where there haven’t been many if any Covid-restrictions for a good-while
It's probably covid related. I've seen it at some fine dining places.
You know I don't if it was Covid related but this one Italian restaurant near me that has ridiculously food. I got a to go order of rigatoni ala vodka (it's the best I've found in anywhere so far honestly) but they wrapped this really hot dish in saran wrap. And I could smell the plastic melting. It's like are you people fucking retarded. I took off quick that's shit is not healthy to be breathing in.