Blame the cook & don't be impatient

Nothing grinds my gears more than when people blame the waitress for something the cook did. If the food takes forever, that is not our fault, it's (more times than not) the cooks fault. I hate when people sit down and you go to take their drink order and they say "Can we order now? We're kind of in a hurry." Oh, I'm sorry, I'll just put your order in front of all the other orders of the people that have been here waiting for their food like good customers.Sometimes I'm half tempted to send the people to McDonald's since their food supposedly isn't coming out fast enough. And if you can afford to go out to eat, you can afford to tip. Usually the people that say they "can't afford to tip" are the ones that get a bunch of extra food for themselves, and end up not eating all of it. 

Don't ever steal a servers pen

Day in the life of a server.

Nothing is more annoying when someone borrows your pen, and doesn't return it. They flag you down, and ask to "borrow your pen for a second" and then you never see it again. Or you give them a pen to sign a credit card slip, and they walk off with it. Most night's I start out with three or four pens, and leave with one or two. What about you?