Getting the right size and price
You ever do this thing where you enjoy a meal, think it's OK on the price, then later on when you think back, you realize they gave you an order of something in the larger size (more expensive). This probably doesn't happen to someone who's not a cheap Chink. In fact, I was happy with the meal at Sitka and Spruce in Seattle. The one thought I had which was incorrect was that they gave you a lot of food. What actually happened was I thought I ordered the appetizer portion and they gave the entree portion, and that's the real reason it felt like a lot of food. See I was going to rave about this place in Seattle that just won a James Beard Award for Best Chef Northwest. I can't even say it was shady, because I should have asked. But really that server should clarified with me what I wanted. His decision to either not ask or to forget to ask was simply a measure of his skill to treat well those customers who are cheap. While I do not want to dwell on the failures of a single server, I will.... [Continue reading]
