Wayne D's Blog

Bugger, I wrote half of this thing and Seamonkey crashed before I saved it. Let's see if I can remember what I wrote.


Last Sunday my brothers and sisters and their respective families went to Lonestar for lunch to celebrate my two oldest sons confirmation. The woman who led us to our table told us that our server's name was Corona. When Corona came to take our drink order I couldn't resist asking her whether her mother had called her Corona. She replied, not surprisingly,  that Corona was her server name. I didn't ask but I wondered if the wait staff in the restaurant adopted server names to protect their privacy, whether the company wanted them to use a name that reflected the Tex-Mex theme of the restaurant, whether the company recycled their uniform jerseys when staff turned over or whether it was just easier to not reprogram the restaurant's food and beverage system with new names. I guess I'll never know, irregardless, Corona treated us very well and we had a great time.


For the past ten years or so I have been playing NTN trivia on Tuesday nights with a bunch have guys that has remained pretty much constant over the years. Since I started we have had to change bars once due to an ownership and them change, before I arrived I think they changed bars a couple of times. One of the side effects of going to the same place every week is that you get to know the bar staff by name. The Tuesday after my visit to Lonestar I was late because I had a meeting at the church. In our rush to get everyone organized and off to lunch on the Sunday we had neglected to take the flowers from the alter that had been given to us to commemorate the boy's confirmation. I put the flowers in the car and headed straight to the bar.


When I arrived I decided to bring the flowers in with me and distribute them. On my way in I gave one to the security guy and the manager on duty whose names I will omit to protect their privacy. The security guy gave the flower he picked, which was a daisy, to one of the wait staff who was also our server for the evening. She took my beer order and when she came to the table to deliver it she was wearing the daisy in her hair. I asked her whether the name she gave us when we asked was her real name or her server name. Over the years we have found that when you treat the people who bring your food and drink like human beings they really appreciate it. I was surprised to find one night that another group who had been coming to the bar for at least three years didn't bother to For a second she looked at me as if I was from the moon before saying "of course it's my real name". I quickly explained the story of Corona and she decided that she was going to take Daisy as her server name. The other female server who was working that night took her flower into the kitchen to give to one of the cooks. She then came back and asked if she could have another one because the other guy in the kitchen was jealous because he didn't get one.


The moral of the story, if you aren't going to bring the wait staff flowers at least take the time to call them by name, and if they treat you well, tip them appropriately. To compliment the daisy theme of this posting I have included a couple of daisy pictures. If you are reading this on www.wdawe.com you have to go here to see the other daisy picture. To ensure there is no misunderstanding, the picture of Daisy to the right is Daisy Fuentes not Daisy the server.