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  • From: rick sawyer <rickbang AT gmail.com>
  • To: RTP-area local music and culture <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Federal waitress best on planet (was: eGullet founder/author....)
  • Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 09:41:38 -0500

while i, too, have fallen victim to the Federal's legendary
Disappearing Waitress, i would like to straighten the record.

it's true that the federal's service can be spotty, negligent, and
downright shitty. but it is also true that the best service i have
ever received on a consistent basis is provided by a waitress at the
federal.

her name is kate. every monday night, members of the WXDU board (and
assorted, affiliated geeks) meet in the back room of the federal. she
almost always waits on us. she knows our regular orders, our
particularities, and can take a good guess at which of the specials
each of us would like.

our relationship was almost a fraught one. you may not have guessed
that i am a loudmouth. well, it happened one evening that a gratuity
got added to our check. i was tipsily outraged. "waiters only do
this," i declared indiscreetly, "if they think you are a motherfucking
deadbeat. fuck that. we tip twenty percent each and every time we're
here." and on and on.

the whole time i was ranting, members of my table were nudging each
other uncomfortably. you can guess why. so, i turned around, and
there was kate. she wasn't pissed, exactly. she wasn't laughing,
exactly. she was kind of doing both.

anyway, she took the grat off the bill; we tipped her, like, 27% (the
asshole surcharge); and our relationship has blossomed ever since.

once, she even cleared out a table of lingering customers so that i
could get a table in the non-smoking section. she is just that
awesome!

rick!



On 10/31/05, 5er (martin) <mdhall005 AT yahoo.com> wrote:
> I have to concur, as some of the worst, and some of
> the slowest (they can be mutally exclusive), service I
> have recieved in recent memory has been at Federal on
> several different occasions. Right now they are
> hitting right around the Mendoza line, with 1 out of 5
> visits being decent. I keep going back because the
> food really is pretty amazing.
> But I would be back more often if I felt confident
> that I would get waited on within 30 minutes of being
> seated, and if after an hour wait my food actually
> came out as I ordered it, 30 minutes ago.
>
> -5er




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