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And: “No groping, . . . mauling, sucking face, canoodling or heavy petting.”

There is no manners index tracking diner behavior, but Patrick Maguire, an industry veteran who’s writing a book called “Server Not Servant,” says a survey he conducted of more than 200 current and former service industry workers found that almost one out of five customers is impolite, disrespectful, or downright rude.

“Some [patrons] are not happy unless they’re miserable, or making someone else miserable,”

“Are you familiar with a ‘love sheep?’ ’’ Doyle asks, recalling a group of guys who installed a crude, inflatable sheep as a centerpiece at a high-end Boston restaurant, to the dismay of co-diners. “There are rude people in all aspects of life,” he says, “but in a restaurant you can be stuck next to them for hours.”

Marblehead-based etiquette consultant Jodi R.R. Smith says the problem may not be that customers are getting ruder, but rather that we’ve become increasingly intolerant of others’ behavior. “Everything we watch on TV is about judging others,” she says, mentioning, “The Bachelor,” “So You Think You Can Dance,” and “The Voice.” “That’s what we do for entertainment — judge others. When we turn off the TV we continue doing that.”


Are you a besotted, 'Yo' _ canoodling locavore or heavy petting 'sucking face' who compares the size of your portion dish with other diners at restaurants ?

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Van

I know someone who has never failed to complain to the manager about something, no matter where we went to eat out with her. Invariably, she'd end up getting her meal for free. It's embarrassing. If they weren't family, I'd never eat at a restaurant with them.

The only time I can remember asking to speak with a manager, I invited him to sit down with me while I explained how I overheard some of his employees talking smack about another customer. I didn't tell him what I expected him to do about it. I simply gave him the facts. We shook hands, I assured him I did not want a free dessert or discount or any other such thing, and I tipped the waitress well as reassurance that my complaint had nothing to do with her.

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Life begins & ends cold, naked & covered in crap.

Pretty smart way of handling it, Jason.

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Van

I spent about 2 decades in the food industry, managing restaurants (65 at once at one point) and working as a chef, owned a restaurant and bar as well. Been down that street and witnessed the poor behavior on both sides of that experience .

Today, I'm in customer service once again. Hauling people from the airport to paradise! People have not improved in the past 20 years! How bad is it? Next month I plan to haul dirt instead of people, it's more rewarding! And the dirt doesn't say Me! Me! Me! Oil sands here I come! Hell I missed operating equipment! When equipment doesn't work right you just lubricate it! That's frond upon in some industries!

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Freedom is never free!

Where are you looking? I had an interview with Shell @ Fort Sask a couple of days ago.