Word: waitering
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...order such a meal, a customer has to have more crust than a Bowery mission pie. But some of the owners and waiters have worked out a defensive "treatment" for such diners. As soon as they hear the odious order, waiters snatch the tablecloth from the table and the napkin from the diner's lap. The table is set with chipped crockery and kitchen silverware. Then, aiming at the kitchen and rearing back, a waiter bellows at the top of his voice: "Menú econímico for one!" That attracts the attention of everyone in the dining room...
...days of the treatment may be numbered. Last week the dutiful Peronista press took up the cudgels for the menú ecnímico, warning waiters that any more such sabotage of the restaurant law could mean big trouble. La Epoca insisted: "The cry, 'Menú econímico for one!' must never again be heard . . . How would a waiter feel if he went into a shoe store and the clerk shouted: 'A pair of cheap shoes...
...Paris, Buchwald sees "anyone who is in the news," has become as much of a celebrity as many of the people he interviews. Once when he complained "how difficult it is to get into the Savoy in a dinner jacket borrowed from a waiter," one of his readers sent him a hand-me-down tuxedo which he still wears ("It's getting a little tight under the arms"). He drops names as easily as he gulps an outsize portion of pâte de foie gras. "We had lunch recently with the . . . Aga Khan," writes Buchwald. "His Highness told...
...girl has till eight before returning to college. She and her date decided on cocktails and dinner alone. The waiter has just left after taking their order...
...whether his innocent-appearing neighbor at the next table might be checking on his drinking. By law, the restaurant could serve a woman precisely 5 centiliters (1.7 oz.) of hard liquor, or a man 7.5 centiliters, up to 3 p.m.. and double that amount after. If a friendly waiter brought the drinker an outsize tot. the snooper would not say a word, but at home that night would send off a report signed with his code number. A few days later, the unsuspecting waiter would be reprimanded or sacked. The board, employed ten such male spies, paid each...