Dining - Nov. 3, 2009
What to expect when a waiter screws up
When a waiter tells you he doesn't have the ingredients to complete your order, then brings you the wrong dish after you order your back-up meal, should you be miffed? Or should you at least expect a few bucks off the bill?
Tags: breakfast, waiter, service

Dining - Oct. 4, 2009
We didn't leave a tip
For the first time in as long as I can remember, we didn't leave a tip last night. We ate at a well-known family run restaurant that is known less for the quality of its food and more for its conviviality. The name of the restaurant? Doesn't matter. The restaurant held up its end of the bargain. The server didn't.
Tags: tipping, service, bad server

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