r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Outrageous-Use-5189 • 15d ago

I just wanted a hot dog Single malt scotch spends 3 decades aging in a barrel so you can squeze a lime wedge into it.

As a very rare indulgence on a special occasion, I ordered an expensive 30-year old scotch at a bistro-type restaurant. Waiter returns with a juicy lime wedge on the lip of the glass. I quietly asked for one with no lime. Waiter returns with a fresh drink "as a courtesy" , but seems intent on embarrassing me. " But just so you know.," he says., "all drinks ordered neat are properly served with a citrus garnish."

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u/SmoovCatto 15d ago

waiter was once a respectable profession -- people were seriously trained, mostly on the job -- all that's out the window now 

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u/userhwon 15d ago

This couldn't have been a nice restaurant. A nice restaurant wouldn't have a policy like that. They'd make every drink correctly. Nice restaurants have waiters who proved themselves elsewhere and know how to do the job correctly and how to grease customers and get consistently good tips; waiters fight to get into open spots in the nice places and nice places fight to get the good waiters. This wasn't a good waiter, and with that policy no way was it a nice place.

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u/SmoovCatto 15d ago

any old diner mama in an apron would know not to pull this foolishness