When would you like that served?

I was out dining with my lady-friends at the weekend and we decided to try a new noodle bar close to S.

We ordered our food, each having a starter and a main, whereupon the waiter posed a corker:

“Would you like your starter before your main course?”

Which he immediately followed up with:

“Well, it doesn’t matter, it probably won’t all arrive at the same time or in the right order anyway.”

We were stunned!

I wasn’t sure whether to be impressed with his honesty, or disappointed in the virtually promised failure of what I deem to be a fairly key component of running a restaurant – that is bringing the right dishes to the table at the right time, and have the diners respective dishes be served at roughly the same time.

As it turned out, they did manage to bring all the starters before the mains, and the main courses were only 5 minutes apart. And it has to be said, the food was very good, even if S & A had to eat theirs with a sauna spoon.

Still, the rest of the evening was a resounding blast.

(Oh yeah – we did also create a blog over the course of the evening, but I can’t remember the name, the login name or the password – and I don’t believe we managed to write anything on it either – just as could be expected between us).

Two for One!

I went to buy a pair of shoes for my daughter the other day, and was horrified to discover that a single pair of shoes for her amounted to the same price as 2 pairs for me.

To be fair to the shop, the shoes for me were an absolute bargain, BUT if you can knock the prices down on adult footwear, then surely you can reduce the price of kiddies shoes, given that they are the ones that need them more often (what with that habit children have of growing).

I know that this is all just business savvy, and they sting the parents where they know it hurts the most, but seriously!

What shocked me more is that a pair of shoes for a 6 year old in this well-publicised discount outlet should cost more than a pair from Clarks. To me, Clarks are the don in kiddies shoes, and consequently they deserve to charge £30 a pair. Cheapo retailers do not!

(But I love my new shoes!)