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SoonerLaw09
12/9/2011, 03:46 PM
Why do waitresses at breakfast places always refer to you (the customer) as "honey", "babe", "darlin", or "sugar"? I've not experienced this at other types of restaurants. But no matter where you go, enter a Denny's, Jimmy's Egg, IHOP, Prairie Kitchen, Waffle House, or whatever and it's the same deal.

Things that make you go hmm...
KantoSooner
12/9/2011, 04:18 PM
It's early, they're tired and they need to call the customers something.
SoonerAtKU
12/9/2011, 04:40 PM
Because of they're drunk.
StoopTroup
12/9/2011, 05:40 PM
Because if they called you what they were really thinking they'd get fired?
delhalew
12/9/2011, 05:50 PM
Because it's more acceptable than *******.
StoopTroup
12/9/2011, 06:00 PM
Exactly.
8timechamps
12/9/2011, 07:56 PM
I also think that is geographically specific (to the midwest/south). If I went to have breakfast here, and a waitress called me "honey" (or the like), I'd think she was trying to butter me up to roll me.
AlbqSooner
12/9/2011, 08:24 PM
I hate it when I go to Waffle House and the guy waiting on me calls me sweety. NTTAWWT
olevetonahill
12/9/2011, 08:31 PM
I hate it when I go to Waffle House and the guy waiting on me calls me sweety. NTTAWWT

Prolly figures you ARE a sweety fer going to Waffle house .
Turd_Ferguson
12/9/2011, 08:43 PM
Prolly figures you ARE a sweety fer going to Waffle house .Ain't noth'n wrong with a double scattered, topped, chunked, and diced...
olevetonahill
12/9/2011, 08:45 PM
Ain't noth'n wrong with a double scattered, topped, chunked, and diced...

If yer Ghey or a Cackroach
Sooner_Tuf
12/11/2011, 03:21 AM
You can blame it on Flo.
Flagstaffsooner
12/11/2011, 05:25 AM
2544
Jammin'
12/12/2011, 12:33 PM
Why do waitresses at breakfast places always refer to you (the customer) as "honey", "babe", "darlin", or "sugar"? I've not experienced this at other types of restaurants. But no matter where you go, enter a Denny's, Jimmy's Egg, IHOP, Prairie Kitchen, Waffle House, or whatever and it's the same deal.

Things that make you go hmm...

Most of them aren't intelligent enough to remember names. Just be happy they wrote your order down on paper.
delhalew
12/12/2011, 12:45 PM
Did somebody get poor Jammin's order wrong?
Jammin'
12/12/2011, 12:57 PM
Did somebody get poor Jammin's order wrong?

I had one call me "sugar" and I'm CLEARLY a "Hun". Stupid whore.



(no offense to whores)
badger
12/12/2011, 12:59 PM
I bet it's marketing, just like Abercromie wants its sales associates to be standoffish, breakfast diners want their servers to be folksy.

I used to be a retail cashier. I needed to have a smile glued to my face at all times, even while on the phone. Like that X-Files episode said, "If you're not smiling, they can hear it."
delhalew
12/12/2011, 01:01 PM
What do like your whores to call you?
delhalew
12/12/2011, 01:03 PM
I'm an awful waiter. An excellent bartender, but I **** up everything as a waiter. That **** is harder than it looks.
SanJoaquinSooner
5/27/2012, 01:59 PM
Cartoon Parade:


"You might as well pay your check now. I've already decided to ignore you for the rest of the evening."

http://michaeljlewis.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/waiterpic.jpg
hawaii 5-0
5/27/2012, 02:09 PM
Just a term of endearment.

It puts the customer at ease and just might generate a bigger tip.

Male servers should be careful when using the term unless they're in Austin.

In that case Sugarbritches is the preferred term.

5-0
MamaMia
5/27/2012, 02:31 PM
They do that to me too, and I'm a girl. Its just a regional thing. They want folks in this here parts to feel welcome, he he he. :D

Plus, think about it...its the hospitality that gets those women the bigger tip. It sure isn't the 15 to 20% on a cafe breakfast that pays the bills. :)
MamaMia
5/27/2012, 02:38 PM
I hate it when I go to Waffle House and the guy waiting on me calls me sweety. NTTAWWTWell, if you would stop wearing those fishnet hose. Just sayin' :p
olevetonahill
5/27/2012, 02:41 PM
Well, if you would stop wearing those fishnet hose. Just sayin' :p

He aint wore any of those since he passed away last Dec.
Jacie
5/27/2012, 04:07 PM
It isn't regional, waitresses here routinely call me "hun" with the less specific "you'se guys" running a close second.
Chuck Bao
5/27/2012, 05:19 PM
As far as I'm aware, it is a uniquely American tradition. I don't ever remember experiencing those terms of endearment in either Europe or Asia.

If someone helps me whether male or female, a "sweetheart" or a "dear heart" or a "bless your heart" involuntarily slips out when it was probably not at all appropriate to say, especially in Asia or Europe. I'm just being an American who was raised by his Okie grandmother.

In Thailand, it is reversed. The waitresses are extremely polite and not overly familiar. But the patrons when wanting their attention will yell "Nu Nu" (mouse mouse). Mouse is a very popular nickname for a younger sibling, so it is also a term of endearment.

Thanks for the topic. It is an interesting dichotomy where waitresses of one culture are focused on service and the other on sales/tips.
Breadburner
5/27/2012, 05:44 PM
He aint wore any of those since he passed away last Dec.


Wow...That got a snort out of me...!!