Dining - Nov. 4, 2008
My call liquor and dessert rant
I seem to be on a service rampage as of late, but my last two months of dining have been riddled with enough poor service to make me want to stay home to eat. In fact, if it wasn't my job to eat out and report the results back to OnMilwaukee.com, and I was just a normal diner, I probably would stay home from now on. It would certainly be much cheaper and less frustrating.
Tags: service, dining out, restaurants, dessert, call liquor

Milwaukee Buzz - Oct. 7, 2007
Sunday Sound-off: Is the service or the meal more important?
When dining out, which is more important to you: the service or the meal? Sound-off now, Milwaukee!
Tags: restaurant, service, waiter, waitress, server, wait staff, menu

Dining - Sept. 8, 2007
Friendly Red Robin earns fat tip
For the first time in several months, or perhaps closer to a year, we received service at a restaurant in the Milwaukee area that merited more than a 20 percent tip.
Tags: red robin, tipping, waiter, waitstaff, waitress, service

Dining - Jan. 17, 2007
Gracious gratuity
I have always considered myself a fair tipper, but lately I have run into very few servers who have qualified for any overage of 15 percent, and in several cases, I have met with a server who didn’t at all deserve 15 percent of a dinner bill that came in at over $100 for two.
Tags: tip, gratuity, service

Dining - April 24, 2008
Our Service Industry
What is going on with our service industry? This is nothing new, but it has been bothering me for quite some time, and now I decided to write about it. I also hope some of the OnMilwaukee.com readers would share some of their experiences, good or bad, with me about our service industry. If...
Tags: Service Industry, Service, Consumer,