Wobbly Tables

What I really hate when I dine out is tables that wobble.

So often these days I sit down at the table and you guessed it, it wobbles.
More often than not the uneven floor is to blame, but most modern tables can be adjusted with a simple turn of one or more of it's feet.

As a fellow chef pointed out just the other evening as we sat at one of our own dining tables which had been vacated earlier by paying customers, that a previous employer of his would have made the biggest scene about the unsteady table. The staff would be on a knife edge if he was to dine at their table and find it to have a wobble.

So here we are late at night with the staff long gone trying to enjoy a meal that was prepared some time ago. To have to sit at this table was to us very disturbing.

You imagine paying top dollar to sit at a table that moves every time you lean on it!!

I imagine it to be like a total let down to make a reservation, arrive on time, be greeted with a beaming smile and a "good evening Mr Smith please follow me to your table" only to sit down and the first time you place your arm on the table it moves.

Now not only did the restaurant know you were coming, they had assigned you a table, which means somebody had to have arranged the cutlery and glassware put the candle on, fill the salt and pepper shakers and so on before you actually arrived. So why the fuck didn't they check the table for a wobble? That is the question.

I'll tell you why, because they don't care.

I was out the other day for coffee and yes my table had a wobble. This is one of the worse times to sit at a wobbly table because your coffee often ends up in the saucer, especially if its an average cup-pa, one with no body, just milky wash, better leave that for another post.

Anyway must go to work now and rev up the staff to check and fix those tables.