Madeleine
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We tell guests what's for breakfast, we don't ask. This morning, 4 guests traveling together but not eating at the same time did this:
I go to the table to make sure everyone is eating. (Euros don't always eat, why waste the cook's time!) They know what's for breakfast because we've told them.
I get, "I'll just have a pancake and bacon, no sausage or eggs." So I explain there's a biscuit that comes with the eggs, but no pancakes. No bacon. OK, she'll have the biscuit. Later on, same table, the last of them shows up. He walks right over to the kitchen and says, "I'll have 2 eggs, over easy, and a side of bacon." Sigh. I say, 'Scrambled eggs, sausage and biscuit, that's what we're having today.
Why they think they just walk over and tell us what they're having when we've already explained how breakfast works is beyond me. If nothing else they can see the other guests eating the same thing. And there's the morning menu, posted right by the coffee. Like Cambs said the other day, we don't post it just to tell you we don't have it. We post it so you know what we have.
I don't mind if they just want toast. But it's not a restaurant. And it's not even a big kitchen!
I go to the table to make sure everyone is eating. (Euros don't always eat, why waste the cook's time!) They know what's for breakfast because we've told them.
I get, "I'll just have a pancake and bacon, no sausage or eggs." So I explain there's a biscuit that comes with the eggs, but no pancakes. No bacon. OK, she'll have the biscuit. Later on, same table, the last of them shows up. He walks right over to the kitchen and says, "I'll have 2 eggs, over easy, and a side of bacon." Sigh. I say, 'Scrambled eggs, sausage and biscuit, that's what we're having today.
Why they think they just walk over and tell us what they're having when we've already explained how breakfast works is beyond me. If nothing else they can see the other guests eating the same thing. And there's the morning menu, posted right by the coffee. Like Cambs said the other day, we don't post it just to tell you we don't have it. We post it so you know what we have.
I don't mind if they just want toast. But it's not a restaurant. And it's not even a big kitchen!