"No Nonsense"

Thanks for the comments, hootster. I still can't log into "G.P." Seems my blog is a mature/adult site, or it contains pornography or drugs. So the only entrance is through the back door.

My new company takes a no-nonsense approach to everything. Their standards are high. But the store next to the motel needs some help in the kitchen. I've eaten there 7 times this week, and only once was the food hot. Tonite I told the asst. mgr. about it-cos my macaroni was cold and my pintos were lukewarm-and he came back to report that the food he checked was 160 degrees.

"Perhaps they are dipping the food from the top of the pans," was my summation.

He said the staff was trained "to stir and dig."

But,imho, they ain't doing it.

Reminds me of the time me and Kitty went to Shoneys to eat. Her mashed potatoes were cold, so I asked the server if we could get some more.

She never returned but the asst. mgr. walked by, so I told him the same story. He never came back to the table, either. When I saw him at the cash register I told him he never fixed the faux pas. In a triumphant voice he declared:

"I checked the mashed potatoes with a thermometer and they read 160 degrees, which is what Shoneys and the Health Department require."

I countered with: "Did you stir them up before you checked them? And I don't really care what they were in the kitchen; I wanted some hot mashed potatoes."

He told me to wait a minute and would be right back. A free meal card or free dessert or something was perhaps in the offing. We had paid already and I was a bit perturbed, so we left without receiving any thing complimentary. But it's service like this that brings a death knell to companies. And yet the companies preach it all the time, but most of us don't seem to be listening.

No nensense, v.c.

P.S. The Shoneys mgr. also told me and Kitty that her mashed potatoes were cold because she probably got them off the all-you-can-eat bar that was in the dining room. I told him NO; they had come from the kitchen. And should it matter where they originated?

As Jerry Springer says: "Where do we find these people?"