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Poll: Yikes! Tackiest thing you've seen a vendor do...

DiorAndKissesDiorAndKisses member
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Hi all!  I just read a thread about a reception hall and one of the responses stated that the wait staff put colored post it notes on the guests' plates to indicate which meal each person ordered.  I would be mortified if that happened.  What are some other tacky/odd things you've seen done by reception vendors or at reception locations?  I plan on being very clear with the maitre'd or owner that these things cannot happen!  Can't wait to read the responses!
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Re: Poll: Yikes! Tackiest thing you've seen a vendor do...

  • USER876USER876
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    edited December 2011
    Actually I remember places doing that when I went to weddings with my parents yrs ago.Red cardboard was steak, Green was chicken,etc..lol
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  • Angie550Angie550 member
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    edited December 2011
    I was at a wedding in Florida and the photographer had on jeans - ratty jeans - a wrinkly button down that was not tucked in crazy colored sneakers.  The wedding was at a beautiful orchid garden and he was just throwing it off for me.
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  • reneel828reneel828
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    edited December 2011
    The post its was my post. That took the cake for me!
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  • uppereastgirluppereastgirl member
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    edited December 2011
    Putting dollar bills on the bar to indicate that they'd like to be tipped.  Tip jars are bad too.  Bartenders should not expect or particularly solicit tips from guests.  I judge a venue a lot when I see that.I've gotten the post-it with "vegetarian" on it when I've ordered off-menu vegetarian meals.  That doesn't bother me much.We went to a boat cruise wedding once.  The salad was clearly bag salad with nothing added, which was bad, and there was a garbage can-- like the tall dark gray plastic type you'd see in a public restroom-- right behind our table.  Like 6 inches away from one of the people at our table.  You can't put it out of sight or away from the guests?
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  • uppereastgirluppereastgirl member
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    edited December 2011
    Oh, and chatty DJs and annoying photographers are a whole 'nother can of worms.  I'm not going to go into that more, except that emcees and photographers can be very, very obnoxious.
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  • Meghana55Meghana55 member
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    edited December 2011
    went to a wedding this weekend.  The bride/groom provided the venue with their own liquor.  The bartenders were filling some of it in a cup and handing it over to another waiter/bartender for their own personal use!
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  • I <3 SeabassI <3 Seabass
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    edited December 2011
    I don't know if this counts as being tacky but I found it odd. The venue wheeled these huge cabinets filled with the dinner plates out on to the dance floor and the waiters would take the dishes out of the cabinets and serve them to the guests. I just thought that it was weird that they would put that on display, like watch your food sit here and get cold while we run back and forth. I don't understand why they just didn't leave the cabinets in the kitchen and serve from there.
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  • kewltifkewltif member
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    edited December 2011
    Tip jars!
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  • caketimecaketime
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    edited December 2011
    I agree tif - tip jars.  For me personally I hate beer in bottles at weddings.
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  • DeirdreAnneDeirdreAnne member
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    edited December 2011
    Someone I know had her wedding at Summit Hotel and one of the staff took 15 gift envelopes from the card box.  It took them a month, but they finally figured out who it was and got the money back!  Eek- people are just so trashy even if they work at a nice place... such a shame!
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  • Partymixx27Partymixx27 member
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    edited December 2011
    Seabass - was it at The Forge in Woodbridge?  I worked there a couple years back for some extra holiday cash and this is how they served their food.  Everyone's entrees would be wheeled out into the reception room from the kitchen on what looked metal gurneys with shelves, and the wait staff would have to make a mad scramble to grab thier tables' dishes.  Nothing was separated out, all the chicken, steak and fish were on there together.  Not only that but we'd have to lift the lids to see what was in there and inevitably, some dumbarse waiter would forget to put his or her order in and people were left hanging.  It was the dumbest system I've ever seen.
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