Imagine having a 1 star review you left online go viral

Go Daniella! Those parents sound like entitled pricks.

Id be irritated by crying if it was prolonged and not dealt with. I’m a mum myself and I also need quiet relaxing down time when out and about.

BUT there’s a way of handling this scenario and this wasnt it. The waitress is in the wrong for being an attention seeking brat who thinks she’s hilarious and cool (but really isn’t.)

I expect her family and friends are embarrassed of her 😂

Sorry - she made a family with young child sit outside in November because she had a headache - and she thinks making it into a tshirt is really funny? Is this some young people thing?

The reviewer makes a fair point. Sounds like families with children would be better giving this place a wide berth.

Or the parents could parent their children as no doubt other parents with children in that cafe did. The report stated other diners were being made uncomfortable by the constant noise and the waitress suggested they went onto the heated terrace to calm the child down - not say banishing them out there to eat.

Children do cry or make a fuss sometimes and while parents should control them and remove them if they're disturbing fellow customers, it's unreasonable to expect them always to behave like mini-adults.

Problem is a large number of parents don't control their children nor remove them if they are disturbing fellow customers, No-one expects children to behave like mini adults but they do expect them to behave.

Cafes/restaurants who want custom from families should behave in a welcoming way towards babies and children.

Parents should reciprocate by controlling and parenting their children so the experience is enjoyable for everyone in the cafe/restaurant.

It seems some parents are either too lazy or too afraid to actually parent their children and don't care about the impact on anyone else.

It is I think, but maybe the restaurant is an American firm? Or has American owners? Or has an American style set up? Albeit the lay scale will be better than is the US due to the minimum wage and not quite as much reliance on tips. Could also just be a restaurant that has chosen to use American style words. 🤷

I was simply explaining what the term means. It isn't usually quite the same as the role of waiter.

I don't find it hilarious and think this t shirt is a bit ridiculous.
The only reason it's gone 'viral' is that some news pages are churning out rubbish articles because they can't do real journalism 🤷🏼‍♀️

I suspect the restaurant doesn't offer sick pay perhaps.

Surely not! Why would anyone buy that 🤣 I’m even more embarrassed for her now!

So, if your child was screaming for a long period of time, you'd just sit there? Most parents would take the child outside to calm down ime.

i didnt realise it was in america? i assume it was in herts

That's because in America the restaurant staff have different roles, one of which is server.

You will have greeter, assigner, server, etc.
All work in the restaurant , working with customers, but all have different roles.
The server is a tipped role - they usually get paid a much lower hourly rate but can make way more through the tips.

In the UK we tend to have one person do more than one of these roles - the waiter.

She's selling the T-shirts for £14.99. 🙄

She printed an unfunny t-shirt just to take a photo for social media. She should be embarrassed, not a cuz to mer reviewing their experience with her.

No one so far has commented they have seen this before. I haven't either.
I suspect OP is trying to get it to go further because she doesn't think it's gone as far as she hoped.

Not particularly funny or interesting. Waitress looks like she's after attention and this is the best she can do. The migraine is just an excuse to try and make herself look better.

I don't understand putting it on a t shirt. You can argue the toss on the actual situation but it's not such an unreasonable review to warrant making any kind of point over.

For example, if someone wrote a review that said something like "we will never go back to this restaurant because waitress X was so ugly and it ruined our enjoyment" and the waitress put it on a t shirt I would think good for her. I mean, I still wouldn't wear it to work but I think the attitude would be the right response if that makes sense.

In this instance I just don't really get it.

She’s 24 and has been doing this job for 12 years… OK then. The review isn’t funny, or even particularly bad, it’s a non review. I don’t get this at all.
Back to the point of the OP, why would the reviewer be embarrassed? It’s a factual review, and they were perfectly entitled to leave it, whether you agree with them or not. I’d be embarrassed to be the waitress, advertising the fact that I’m not very good at my job… 🤷‍♀️

The reviewer makes a fair point. Sounds like families with children would be better giving this place a wide berth. Children do cry or make a fuss sometimes and while parents should control them and remove them if they're disturbing fellow customers, it's unreasonable to expect them always to behave like mini-adults. Cafes/restaurants who want custom from families should behave in a welcoming way towards babies and children.

Of course it's perfectly acceptable to have places where children aren't welcome but it's helpful if the management can be explicit about this. Personally I think more places should have specific "No children" policies so it's clearer for families with children where they are and are not welcome.

Same!! I’m embarrassed for her

Confused by this. The waitress said she didn't handle the situation well and presumably as a result, the family felt annoyed and so they left.

Wearing the review on a T-shirt doesn't really make you look clever! I'm surprised the restaurant manager was ok with her wearing it to work.

Whether the waitress was right to ask them to move or not (not enough information- was the child crying for long, were the parents ignoring the crying etc) she looked like a dick by printing it on a T-shirt. If it was a funny review I might get it but unless I’m misunderstanding it’s not really funny?

I typed her name into Instagram. An attention seeker of the highest order, this is just another desperate grasp for attention. Yawn.

I’ve seen lots of funny bad reviews. This isn’t one of them.

the point some posters are making isn’t should the parents have left on a cold nov day, or do they even know how much the child was crying, what they wer3 doing to stop this, the issue is the waitress openly admits to making them uncomfortable and asking a family to sit outside in nov to eat. She then says she’s a migraine to justify it, and prints a t shirt likes it’s all funny,

I'd like to think the baby must have been crying a lot for them to be asked to move outside. I also think it's a dumb move to specifically name someone in an online complaint. It's one thing to name someone when complaining in person but it's another to leave it on the internet forever.

It also doesn't sound as though the waitress dealt with it as sympathetically as she could have done. I'm sure the parents didn't want their child crying, but if my children started crying when we were out, one of us would take them outside until they were settled. Having sat through a child aged approximately five deliberately screaming for fun at lunch yesterday, I wish more parents would properly parent their children.

This.

The review isn't funny, and putting it on a t shirt is bizarre and attention seeking.

It's amazing what shite goes 'viral' these days.

Agree with this