He Gets Crabby At Dinner...Our 200th Post!

"Wife: Man who died didn't order crab dish: No criminal charges will be filed"

This one is a hard one to decide. I like Ruby Tuesday Restaurants and have only had good experiences there.

Here's my take on this one: One of 2 things could have happened here. The customer ordered the entree without reading what exactly was in the dish or the server wrote down the wrong entree and keyed it into the order system.

It couldn't be a kitchen error because the food was prepared according to what was printed on the ticket. So it's not like they made the wrong dish. It can't be an expediting error as the correct food, according to the ticket, was made and brought out to the table. So it had to be server error if this is going to work.

I have seen this many times when I was serving back in the day. The customer orders something and then when it is brought out they either don't like the look of it, have changed their minds or want something free and they will tell you that you brought the wrong food out. It's very annoying and happens more than you would think. Then again, I've also seen servers forget what the hell the customer ordered because they are preoccupied with something else and punch in the wrong item just to get the ticket going. So this is a tough one. But in this case I would think that the customer probably ordered the wrong thing.

They should be looking into a few things though, like how many complaints has this server had in the past for wrong orders? Is this a pattern they have? Was everyone else's order correct at the table? And if the guy was allergic to shellfish, why in the hell did he NOT smell the crab in the entree. Crab has a very distinctive odor and your average person could reasonably discern that there was something "fishy" with the food.

Bottom line is that the server, even though they did repeat the order to the customer, should have pointed out that there was shellfish in that particular dish during the ordering phase. Just as they should point out if peanut oil was used in the preparation of a dish. Common sense...

Side Note:

This is our 200th post! I didn't think I would make it this far!

Sad News...

Grammy-Winning Comedian George Carlin Dies at 71

George Carlin died yesterday of heart failure.

This is sad.I think he is really funny. I sometimes listen to Raw Dog on Sirius radio and he is always on...

Kids Drain Your Lifeforce...

"Teacher Dies Minutes After Retiring From 36-Year Career"

Dead teacher

How much does this suck? You spend all those years having to deal with all those bratty kids (I know, I was a fourth grader) and then you kick it right after you are finally paroled. It kind of reminds me of how smokers usually die off right after they give up the habit. It's like your body doesn't know what to do with itself. She must have been so used to giving the smack down in class that the thought of not being able to do that anymore shocked her. What's going to happen when I give up booze? I perish the thought...

Honey, What Is This Switch For?...

"Woman in iron lung dies after power failure"

Iron Lung

I could be so crass and start in on this one but even I am not that big of an asshole.

I Wonder What Was For Dessert?...

"Accused Cannibal, Convicted Sex Offender Dies in Prison"

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,351232,00.html

So gross...I would have hated to have been one of the neighbors that ate his food. But seriously, just by the way the guy looks, I probably wouldn't have eaten anything he tried to serve me...

Charlton Heston...

Good actor : yes
Film legend : yes
Scary ass gun wielding senior citizen : yes

One of my favorite films of all time to this day still is The Ten Commandments. I usually watch it around Christmas and Easter time. I always thought Heston had a great voice and was incredibly handsome for his day. But as he got older I began to think he was a real crackpot. Especially the whole NRA thing. "From my cold dead hands!" - Well, okay. Can we now, finally, get some God damned gun control laws changed? I don't think anyone really needs an AK 47 for hunting, seriously...

Oscar-Winning Director Minghella Dies...

Whoa, this one is truly shocking. I liked "The Talented Mr. Ripley". I wonder what happened? No details were given. I wonder if they are trying to hide something?

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080318/D8VFS81G0.html