2009/08/20 San Francisco, CA
Bus your own table
Bad idea
This morning I had breakfast at Tartine Bakery. It was the second time in my life that I had breakfast there; it was even more crowded than last time.
But the pastries were delicious.
I noticed a sign: “Please, bus your own table.”
I don’t mind busing my own table, but I do believe that it is hurting the economy. We should pay people to do work we could do ourselves, but that we don’t want to do because we rather read a book by Dawkins, or text a girlfriend or stare out the window.
I assume many people in San Francisco will disagree with me, but I’ve worked as a busboy myself in New York and it’s not that I feel too good to bus my table.
I agree that we should raise the status of the busboy, but eliminating the job of the busboy is a bad idea.
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I Know!
I always tell my girlfriend to leave the table as it is when we're finished eating because it will destroy job opportunities. Unfortunately for all the busboys and -girls, she believes that's bad manners, so she throws away the trash (for free).I send her a link to this post. Hopefully she'll change her mind. Thanks Arnon!
Why did I click the photo to see the details of a dirty plate?
I agree. I get a lot of comments from my family because I have a cleaning lady. They say I have to do the cleaning work myself. I'd rather pay and read a book instead.
Sander
To make people like me laugh who had to suffer from paunchy, middle-aged man on trains oozing with the smell of cigarettes. Thank you ever so much!When I lived in Panama it took me quite some time to get used to this "not-busing" of tables in fastfoodrestaurants. I found it disrespectful and was aggrevated by it. In Italy and France they do it as well. In other countries I didn't visit Fastfood restaurants, I believe.
It's insane, of course.
It's insane, of course.
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