Routines in the Lions Cage

The Pan...I like you, quit being a bitch

Let me start off by saying I love the Fryn Pan in Yankton. The weeknight wait staff is rad.
I've made late night Pan runs for about the last seven years on a fairly regular basis. I went a few times in high school because it was the cool thing to do. As a college freshman & sophomore we went to the Pan a lot. Simply because nothing in Vermillion was open past 11. And in the dorms it's not as though you could make something yourself. So my roommate and I are familiar with the weeknight wait staff and as I previously stated, they're rad.
Last night we got off work at 10:15ish and were feeling hungry. So we went to Yankton for some Pan. We got there and some girl seated us. Keep that in mind, it'll be important later. We knew because of our familiarity with late night Pan culture that she seated us in a weird place. We usually get seated in one of four booths of which three were open. I remember looking at the salad bar and wondering what time it closed. We had debated this for a while and I looked at my phone-clock and it was 11:11. We had our menus and had gotten done figuring out what we wanted. It was at this point that I realized nobody had waited on us yet. It was 11:18. I could understand if it was busy, but it wasn't. I saw plenty of waitresses and waiters putzing around. I told my roommate that I was going to wait until 11:25 and if nobody had waited on us yet that I was just going to go ask somebody to. So sure enough it hit 11:24, by that point I was kind of jacked up, so I got up and went to the counter. A manager walked by carrying something and said he'd be right there. So he came up the counter and asked if he could help me. I said, "My friend and I have been here for fifteen minutes and nobody's waited on us yet." He appologized and said he'd be right there. I said, "We come here quite often and we've never had any problems." I wasn't really there to cause a fuss. I didn't say it in a mean way. I just wanted him to take our order because we were hungry. As he was taking our order he kind of made a joke out of it by saying, "So I assume you've had enough time to look at the menu." We giggled and we were once again feeling good about our Pan run.
We were about done eating when my sister and cousin came in. They sat in the booth adjacent to ours and I was telling them about what had happened as they were being seated. The girl that was seating them was the same one that had seated us. I told them it had taken 15 minutes for them to wait on us and had I not said anything we'd probably still be waiting. The girl snapped at me and said, "That's because this section is closed." And she said it in pretty much the bitchiest way possible. It was almost as though she was scolding me. I remained calm and did not say, "Then how come you sat us here?" I wish I would have said something to her manager about her attitude. If I ever see her working there again I cannot promise I'll be nice to her if I even stay there.
We did get 20% off our bill though, which was nice. I have worked in the food service industry for quite some time. I know that no matter what you never talk to a customer like that. EVER. Especially because WE DID NOTHING WRONG. It was her dumb ass that sat us in that section. I don't really get too worked up about things. I wasn't even pissed off that it took that long to be waited on, just annoyed. That girl's comment DID piss me off. I still love my Pan, but I'll probably try to avoid that cunt from now on.

Posted at 07:58AM Mar 22, 2008 by Valerie Bartlett in General  |  Comments[4]