你和朋友计划了好久,终于抽出时间,在餐厅开心地享用美食,而服务员却时不时地在你们周围徘徊。你一吃完,他就如秃鹰扑兔一般,迅速撤走你面前的空盘子和一切餐具。而此时,你的同伴才刚刚吃到一半……你跟同伴面面相觑,颇觉尴尬,而服务员则开始了新一轮等待,等着撤走你同伴的空盘子。这样的用餐经历,你有过吗?
The other night I was eating a plate of noodles, and enjoying it. I was out to dinner with a friend, hunched over a meal we had been planning for weeks. The restaurant was newly opened and highly regarded. Life was good. And the food was great.
But then it happened. Again.
“Are you done with that?” the server asked, fingers already comfortable with the rim of my plate. “Can I get it out of your way?”
Yes, I had finished eating, because I am a vacuum ; there was no food left in front of me. But my friend had not. His meal was only half-consumed.
“No,” I said. “We’re not done eating.”
Without my permission, restaurants have abandoned, or simply overlooked, a classic tenet of service etiquette (I’m talking about entrees, not the ubiquitous small plates, which demand a different etiquette). Rather than clear plates once everyone at the table has finished the meal, which has long been the custom, servers instead hover over diners, fingers twitching, until the very instant someone puts down a fork. Like vultures, they then promptly snatch up the silverware —along with everything else in front of the customer. If you’re lucky, they might ask permission before stealing your plate.
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