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Regarding the Plight of Chefs Who Must Suffer ‘Amateur’ Diners
"I’ve often contemplated that perhaps we should administer a common sense test of very basic food questions to guests that we do not recognize. If the results clearly reflect that these folks do not dine out very often, we can...
How Many OpenTable Accounts Do You Have?
Shadier folk sign up for multiple accounts under assumed names, but they'd better remember what they all are.
How Many Questions Should Your Server Be Able to Answer About Where Your Chicken Comes From?
Or, How Not to Get All 'Portlandia' on Your Waiter.
That One Jerk in Contra Costa County Has Caused National Outrage Over Tipping in S.F.
Us to Ed Arnow of the Contra Costa 'Times': Look at this mess you started!
Are S.F. Waitstaff Demanding a 25 Percent Tip Standard? Hardly.
This "report" from the Contra Costa 'Times' is totally made up, if you ask us.
Mr. Bauer Would Like to Remind You That Texting in Restaurants Is Tacky
One of his loyal readers also calls the trend "pretty dismal."
A Little Advice on How to Get Your Server’s Digits
You know you've done it. Flirted with an attractive waiter/waitress/bartender, getting increasingly flirty with each glass of wine, only to realize after, or the next day, that you were probably the twentieth jerk to do this that week. Well, fear...
Bauer Thinks San Franciscans Would Tip More If It Weren’t for Healthy S.F. Surcharge
Mr. Bauer once again takes an opportunity to complain about restaurants who still show the Healthy S.F. surcharge on checks.
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Diners at Flour + Water Prop Up iPad, Watch U.S. Open While Eating [Updated]
Michael Bauer, for one, voices his grave disapproval.
San Francisco Nudists Asked to Please Cover Themselves In Restaurants
A proposed law would require nudists to throw a little something on before deciding to dine.
Bauer’s Follow-Up to Controversial Breastfeeding Post Sparks More Controversy
Michael Bauer mused aloud earlier this week about the etiquette of breastfeeding in restaurants, and thus opening the floodgates. In his follow-up yesterday, he offered more thoughts on restaurant etiquette, prying the floodgates open even further.
Behold the Tale of a Successful Twenty-Person Dine-and-Dash
A birthday girl got stuck with the check and tried to make a run for it.
Michael Bauer Is Plenty Familiar With What a Coked-Up Server Looks Like
For the most part, if they can still do their job, he doesn't object.
Willie Brown Doesn’t Always Tip
A "very well-known man-about-town" who sounds like Willie Brown neglected to tip a staffer at a "restaurant near the Ferry Building" that sounds like One Market when said staffer returned to him his fedora. "With Earth Day on the way,...
Gay Men Offer the Paradigm of Post-Meal Magnanimity
The cultural anthropology of check-splitting, both gay and straight.
Memo to Cocktail Snobs: Bartenders Are Not Impressed With Your Shenanigans
If you're thinking about bringing your own homemade bitters to the bar, read on.
How Do You Feel About Texting at the Table?
The S.F. Chronicle critic is once again griping about all the smart phones at dinner.
Hoping for the Death of Flash Websites in 2011
"#10: Useless restaurant websites. I can’t believe I have to go over the basics, but here goes: no flash intro (thanks for wasting my time for 20 seconds, can I just get the information I’m looking for?); hell, no flash...