I love the roll of paper towels, around here the only place you see that is Mission BBQ. I WILL put a hurting on a roll of paper towels when I eat, especially some saucy/messy food like BBQ.

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Originally posted by PASig:
I love the roll of paper towels, around here the only place you see that is Mission BBQ. I WILL put a hurting on a roll of paper towels when I eat, especially some saucy/messy food like BBQ.

Using paper towels in a BBQ joint is like burping in a French restaurant. Some patrons might think you need to work on your outside manners but the chef sees it as a compliment.

I see the roll of paper towels pretty often . Especially during crawfish season .

Wings n BBQ = roll-o-towels...

"A towel napkin," The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy says, "is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have."

The entire global supply is secreted away in amboolamps glove compartments.

Every where I've been in Asia, and mostly the Philippines, napkins must be made of gold. We had to ask at one place in Manila and revevied one for a table of four. Shut, buy a coke from a street vendor, they'll pour it into a sandwich bag with a straw and wrap an elastic band around it.

And while we're talking about restaurant decline..

What's with the tiny ketchup packets? I can't tear them open without getting ketchup on my fingers, they hold a miniscule amount of ketchup, and I can never squeeze them completely empty. So I have to take a stack of thin napkins and a dozen packets at the counter and tear and squeeze and tear... The ketchup pumps were a lot easier to use (when they were working and the staff remembered to fill them once in awhile).

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Originally posted by bendable:
Always at the sales level

Not a lot of time logged running tables, flying orders someone forgot to put in, or re-firing orders that got forgot in the window, I guess.

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Originally posted by KevinCW:
Well, this was a sit down restaurant, non chain local place, at Lake of the Ozarks.... and infelt bad for the waitress, as it was late Friday afternoon and she was the only one working the entire room... but still.... just put a stack of napkins on the table.

A good server knows when to bend the rules a little to make a customer happy. "We're not putting napkins on tables because of covid" rigid nonsense at some point has to give way to "Look, manager, I was the only one running the whole floor. You want happy repeat customers, or negative Yelp reviews?"