Only in the D.R. you make a MISTAKE x 3 and people will smile at you. ONly in the D.R. the guy you almost kill driving you car will say SORRY TO YOU!
Only in the D.R. you make a MISTAKE x 3 and people will smile at you. ONly in the D.R. the guy you almost kill driving you car will say SORRY TO YOU!
Or shoot you in the head
Thats just dumb. But expected. I went to a restaurant on the playa in Sosua for some fish. The one guy working there cant get an order straight to save his own life. I asked for fried fish and a green salad. I broke down everything I wanted in the salad. I asked for a boiled egg. And I explained that I did not want any dressing. I wanted it dry. Then I explained I wanted creamy dressing for the salad on the side. Because I know he always messes up my order I pulled him over and asked him did he tell the ladies in the kitchen how I wanted my salad. My reason is, I believe most people in this country will take an order verbally or write it down but they do not actually tell the cooks or the ones preparing the food.
What good is it to ask for something if the idiot server is not going to make sure the info gets passed on? Anyway, when the food comes, just as I suspected, the salad was wet with some type of dressing. No boiled egg, and no creamy dressing on the side. When I brought it to his attention, he started the usual denial and lying about the whole issue. Meanwhile Im asking him why didnt make sure the order was right 1st. Why did he bring the order to the table when he knew it was not right? All I could get was his usual stupid look on his face. I swear if it wasnt for the food I wouldnt even come. Fortunately there are other servers on the beach with better waiting skills.
that is your answer right there. the problem is one of listening. i am tired of going to a colmado needing more than one item, and by the time you have told the guy one article he is off and running. then i have to call him back and tell him there is more i need.
Thats's because their short term memory can't hold more than one item at a time - by the time you finished telling your list, he'd forget everything except the last item. If you want anything done in DR, you gotta keep feeding it one thing at a time.
I'm amazed that there aren't that many cases of deafness here, since people here as a whole abhor any kind of silence and/or peace and quiet whatsoever. I'm a local, granted, but I will be the first to tell you that one of the most annoying national vices is this infatuation with noise that people of ALL social segments in this country seem to share almost to a man.
there is a beautiful night club in POP which caters to the upper crust crowd. i went there for the first time last night, and fell in love with the place. sad thing is that i could not stay to finish my bottle of wine. the service was great, the crowd was mellow, and i would have stayed forever had it not been for the fact that i could not converse in the place, because the music was deafening.
i can understand the bone jarring volumes in the rancho tipico and the colmadon, but that one bewildered me.
side note: there is a special place in hell for all those self entitled picky pricks who order food in restaurants with five minute long explanation on how they want things done. just stay home. the waiter does not care about your fussy palate.
If I walk into a place and the music is too high, i just walk out.
What about picky pricks (me), who don't live here, and stay in hotels? We have no choice but to give a 5 minute dissertation on how we want our food prepared.
Give a bloke a break.
Really? You dont need a break dude. It makes no difference if you live here or just visiting. Nobody who doesnt matter can tell you what to do with your money or how you choose to take care of your own wants or needs. You do you, and if a waiter or somebody else has a problem with it, its their problem, not yours. If anything, its a dummy who listens to someone who tells him not to go out because he aint supposed to explain how he wants his food prepared. Only in the DR! Would that be an issue with a select few, when its perfectly understandable anywhere else.What about picky pricks (me), who don't live here, and stay in hotels? We have no choice but to give a 5 minute dissertation on how we want our food prepared.
Give a bloke a break.
side note: there is a special place in hell for all those self entitled picky pricks who order food in restaurants with five minute long explanation on how they want things done. just stay home. the waiter does not care about your fussy palate.