I had intended to mention this last weekend.
Before my Memorial Day afternoon movie at the high tone Colleyville theater, I overheard a conversation between a waiter and the bartender. (This crazy place has waiters that patrol the theaters and even sells alcohol.) Anyway, the waiter comes back to the bar with a full bottle of wine and two glasses.
"Man, do you have any traditional wine glasses?" He says to the bartender (as he looks down at glasses that had apparently been rejected by a customer.) "People get really mad when they order a bottle of wine and we don't have wine glasses."
Really mad? Over glasses? Wine glasses?
We have it tough in this country.
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6.01.2007
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I had intended to mention this last weekend.
Before my Memorial Day afternoon movie at the high tone Colleyville theater, I overheard a conversation between a waiter and the bartender. (This crazy place has waiters that patrol the theaters and even sells alcohol.) Anyway, the waiter comes back to the bar with a full bottle of wine and two glasses.
"Man, do you have any traditional wine glasses?" He says to the bartender (as he looks down at glasses that had apparently been rejected by a customer.) "People get really mad when they order a bottle of wine and we don't have wine glasses."
Really mad? Over glasses? Wine glasses?
We have it tough in this country.
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Waited tables in college in the lovely dust bowl of Lubbock and people would do stuff like that all the time.
They don't like to use the wine glasses in the dinner theatres because the wine glass is a tad too big for the cup holders and they are constantly breaking the stems...
Well I have to complain about this one....I get this kind of poor service from resteraunts all the time. If you are going to serve wine, know how to serve wine; what glass to use, how to decant and pour it. I primarily drink big reds such as Cabernet's, or Merlot's which need a glass with a large bowl and a rim that directs the wine to the middle of your toungue, whereas a Pinot Noir or Riesling requires a rim that directs the wine to the front of the tongue. It seems like you either get two kinds of glasses at most resteraunts, the skinny flute type which should be used for Champagne, or the short and dumpy glass that sloshes wine right down the back of your pallete. I have been several places recently that used the same style glass with the desert wine as they did with the wine I paired with my meal. This stuff really drives me insane, especially when you are paying a premium price to order the bottle of wine and then you get cheap glasses that do not belong with the variety of wine you ordered!
I think he was getting at the fact it was a MOVIE theater.
Devil...
I know exactly what you are talking about. Just last weekend I had to use my teeth to twist off the cap on my bottle of Thunderbird.
I have to admit though, my date was impressed.
Wine glasses are far too easy to knock over. I like to stick my mouth right under that spicket on the box.
He indicated it was a "High-tone" MOVIE theater, and If they are going to serve wine I think they should make an attempt to do it correctly!
This MOVIE theater is obviously trying to seperate itself from a typical run of the mill movie theater and that is the reason I likened it to resteraunt. Nonetheless, if you are going to serve wine, whatever your entity, I would be nice to see some basic product knowledge on behalf of the staff.
who knew beelzebub was a wine aficionado
Ain't America grand! All this over wine glasses. I just say if that is all you have to complain about then it is time to do a little thanking. The other day I walked past a new house and they were putting new sod, I thought this was strange since the house had been sodded earlier. So when I asked the worker (yes, probably an illegal immigrant) didn't this yard have grass already. He just smiled and said in broken English "wrong kind" with a look of disbelief. I kept walking my dog to where we cut through an open field and there was the old grass. Now I'm not a grass expert but it looked exactly like what they were sodding. And all I could think was I am sure glad we live in this country! And isn't it great that those workers had a job. We are so blessed!
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