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  • From: Kevin Grealey <kgrealey AT mckinney-silver.com>
  • To: RTP-area local music and culture <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: Federal waitress best on planet (was: eGullet founder/author....)
  • Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 10:48:31 -0500


I believe the name is Summer.



> From: grady <grady AT ibiblio.org>
> Reply-To: RTP-area local music and culture <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 10:20:44 -0500
> To: RTP-area local music and culture <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Subject: Re: Federal waitress best on planet (was: eGullet
> founder/author....)
>
> Abby Magowan is also outstanding in all categories, but then longtime
> Roxxotica fans already knew that.
>
> And bespectacled bartender woman with whom I'm not on a [first |
> last]-name basis also rules.
>
> In fact, I'd go so far as to estimate that at least 60% of the Federal
> waitstaff are *way* more attentive and professional than the
> circumstances (it is, after all, a bar on Main St. in Durham which is
> often inconveniently overrun by assholes of the D___ U_______ variety
> (among countless other varieties) (um, technically including Rick!, I
> guess, at least when he's drunk)) would render probable.
>
> And I suppose those of us who've spent our whole lives in college towns
> should be used to the strange juxtapositions that make them so
> simultaneously maddening & gratifying.
>
> xo
>
> Ross
>
> rick sawyer wrote:
>> 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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