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Question : US restaurants = Impossible to have a good service?
I live in Atlanta and I can not find a restaurant with good service. Same in NYC.

This is what I need to fax before going to the eat :

DINERS’ BILL OF RIGHTS
I promise to show up at the restaurant promptly at the time of my reservation, to dress impeccably, to use proper table manners, to talk softly and to pay my bill. I will also use appropriate dining customs. This means, among other things, that I will not order “blush” wine, will not eat from my companion’s plate, or ask to take the leftovers home (ill-mannered, shocking and the most boorish thing which Americans commonly do in restaurants). In return, I ask that the staff of the restaurant also behave properly. This means that:

a)No one will tell me my waiter’s first name. This is never done in sophisticated countries. It is too familiar and smacks of hyped phony friendliness and the hard sell techniques taught by Amway and Tupperware.
a)No one will address my guests, or me, as: “folks,” nor my female companions as “guys.” “Folks” means commoners and is demeaning to the guest, even if he or she is common. The term “guys” simply does not refer to women. To inquire if the guest is “still working on that” is contemptible.

b)No one will ask if I have any questions about the menu. Waiters, unless told otherwise, should assume
the guest to be a regular patron and/or knowledgeable about food. To assume otherwise is demeaning.

c)While we are on the subject of menus, fine restaurants, in sophisticated countries, do not offer green salad. Obviously, one should not visit a fine restaurant, with a skilled and inventive chef, to order such an extremely simple dish. Instead, an experienced diner selects, as an appetizer, one of the more challenging and unusual dishes the chef prepares. Grand restaurants offer luxury items like foie gras, truffles, caviar, lobster, etc., among the appetizers.
a)Additionally, sophisticated diners drink wine with their appetizers. The vinegar in salad dressing ‘fights” with wine. However, if one just must have a salad, it is incorrect to eat it at the beginning of the meal, when the diner is hungriest and his palate is already fresh. Instead, it is acceptable to eat a salad, after the main course, but before the cheese course, to refresh the palate.

a)Again, while we are on the subject of menus, the word “entree” is a French word, meaning to
“come in” or “enter.” It is also used on the menu in France, and in every other country, except this
one, to mean, obviously, the “entering” dish, or the appetizer Doubt this? See over for bills from
two Paris restaurants. Long ago, someone simply made a mistake in this county, in thinking
“entree” meant the main course.
Now we seem to be stuck with the improper use of the word. It
is not feasible to try to correct the entire American public as to its error. Nor is it possible to try to
explain this American mistake to the rest of the world. However, now that we get a few foreign
visitors, restaurants should avoid the confusion that the use of the word results in. Restaurants
should simply leave the term “entree” off the menu. Waiters should be instructed to use the
words “appetizer” and “main course” or “main dish,” instead of mentioning the word “entree.”

a)Typical American mistakes concerning wine should be avoided:
1)In the U.S., white wines are usually served too cold, and red ones too warm. Fine red wines
are served at room temperature, but the room in question is the wine cellar, which is not more
than 55 degrees. Young, lighter reds, like Beaujolais, are always served slightly chilled.
2)The wine cork is never placed on the
1)on the table or given to the guest. After checking it, the
waiter should put it in his pocket or drop it into the ice bucket.
2)Wines bottles are properly held at the bottom. Waiters should avoid placing the palm of
their hand against the side of the bottle, as that warms it.
3)Fine red wines are decanted or are served from a wine basket or a wine rack. The bottle is not simply placed upright on the table. A napkin is never tied around the neck of the wine bottle.

a)In civilized countries, coffee after dinner means espresso, never weak American-style coffee. Cappuccino or coffee with milk is only properly served early in the day. Expresso, being too strong to accompany food, is always served after the guest has completed his dessert, neither before, nor with the dessert.
a)The bill or check is not presented with the dessert, or with the coffee, or at any time before the diner requests it. To do otherwise, is to make the guest feel rushed.

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Best answer:

Answer by mikosin357
Try out Alain Ducasse in New York, and stop going to places like applebees.