Friday 7 September 2012

Counter-productive in the cafe

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What is it with the new style of cafe service: The paper serviette comes sitting under the cake.

Okay, it means that the serviette does not blow away in the wind. That's nice. Especially with cafes expanding into the great outdoors. (Footpath rental must be cheap.)

What it also means, is that the serviette comes to my table -- covered in cake!

The cafe provides you with a square of somewhat absorbent paper. To wipe sticky cake off your fingers, I guess. And that square of paper is already dirtier than your fingers! With sticky cake that is just sitting on your plate!

Okay, perhaps the waiters / waitresses / waitpersons are fumble-fingered. Or dirty. A lawyer has told the cafe, Do not allow anyone to touch the serviette! Other than the customer, that is. So you sit a piece of cake on the serviette, to stop if blowing away.

Come on now! That is ridiculous. I want my serviette to be delivered clean. Un-caked. Please allow me to be first to soil the serviette.

Use a peg if you must. Peg the serviette to the plate. Just don't sit a slab of sticky cake on top of a serviette that I expect to be clean.


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