I’ve always ment for it to be helpful, but I can see it being read rude or passive aggressive. Thank you in advance for your time and your thoughts!
The thought is nice but sometimes guests did things that created inconveniences. I’d prefer it if customers let us take care of it ourselves.
Please don’t put your straw wrapper or paper napkins in your drink cup. I can pour the ice/liquid into the drain but have to fish out the soggy paper bits.
Yeah, it really depends on if you know how to do it right. Generally, if you’ve worked in F&B before, then you should know.
It’s not rude at all!
It’s best if you stack similar plates together and put the silverware on top or leave it separately. Its also hekpful to have any leftover food on the top plate rather than smushed in the middle. If all the dishes are different shapes, biggest on the bottom like a pyramid.
At the restaurant I worked, we had a bun for compost, trash, and recycle. So it could be helpful to keep trash out of the food scraps still on the plates. Please don’t leave trash in the cups, because we have to fish it out. Water is heavy and we can’t just throw out all the ice with the straw wrappers and the wrappers can’t go down the sink.
I worked at one of the most high end restaurants in my city for a few years. It felt wonderful when someone stacked plates, because the majority of customers expected every little thing to be removed as soon as they finished. I always stack my dishes now, and put all the garbage on the top plate (never in a cup, cause the ice gets dumped in a different place)
Nah, I love when people stack plates. Makes my life easier
People consider it to be trashy, despite the fact that it’s actually helpful, and it tidies up the table if the waiter is busy. I think it’s considered poor etiquette because rich snobs would never perform the tasks of the paid servants. Those tasks are beneath them. So if you want to be seen as fancy, you need to act as if they’re beneath you as well.
