Sometimes it CAN BE the SERVER’S FAULT!I just had a few months ago a waiter that took our appetizer order when my husband and I ordered our drinks. We were waiting a while and asked him about our appetizer. It turns out he NEVER PRINTED THE TICKET because he claimed he FORGOT to put the order in, meaning it was *HIS* FAULT we waited a LONG TIME for an appetizer, NOT THE COOK’S AT ALL. We waited literally a half an hour, which that is the amount of time we should have been receiving our entrees. Also, there could be times when a server goes get table 6’s order that is a party of 2 doesn’t put the order in right away. Like I’ve seen a waiter get our entree order and go greet a table of 6 people BEFORE putting in our food order. Well, HE DELAYED our food from getting cooked faster or being NEXT on the list, because in that amount of time, another server put in another table’s order more than likely, making us wait longer to eat. So YES, the server DOES have SOMETHING to do with “HOW LONG” you wait for your food. If I order at table 5 and the server puts in the order RIGHT AFTER, OBVIOUSLY I will get my food as SOON as I can, where as if my server goes to greet 2 tables of 4 people and busses a table BEFORE going to put the order in, well OF COURSE table 5’s order will be delayed at least 5 minutes or more. So DON’T say it has NOTHING to do with it, because it DOES!

http://www.complaints.com/complaintofthedayoctober142000.4.htm

“We were waited on and order was taken at 11:40am, and did not receive our lunch until 12:25pm. I understand that the noon hour is busy, but not only did our drinks run out, but our waitress avoided coming to our table.
This not only made us late coming back to work, but the food was cold. When we looked on our ticket our order was not placed until 12:08.”

Basically this letter that someone wrote states their order was delayed by their WAITRESS, by not putting in the order until 12:08p.m.

My point is, the server DOES have a LOT to do with *HOW LONG* people wait for their food. If you don’t print a ticket, how in the world is the cooks going to KNOW to cook it? If the order doesn’t go into the computer for 10 minutes, well gee, that’s 10 minutes the customers could have had their meal quicker. So QUIT SAYING that it has NOTHING to do with “Taking TOO LONG”, because it has EVERYTHING to do with how long someone is waiting. Even if I order a well done steak, if the server waits to put my order in for 10 minutes and basically in a sense *SITS* on my order for that long, I’ll be waiting LONGER for that steak. You KNOW that’s the TRUTH! I know that a steak well done would take a long time, but it will take LONGER if my server doesn’t put in the order RIGHT AFTER they get it. If the server “FORGETS” to get the food and it just “SITS”, it CAN be delayed due to the *SERVER*!

If you put the order in right away and get it right away, then the COOK is at fault for the food taking a long time.