To think this was an odd thing to do at a buffet?

[YankNCock]

Stayed at a cheapish chain hotel in central London last night and had the breakfast buffet in the morning. We arrived at the door and gave our room number, and the waiter ticked us off the list.

Then he spent a good couple of minutes taking a very cheap paper napkin, unfolding it, refolding it into a square, then into a triangle and then wrapping it around a fork and knife. He did this twice and then handed them to us and gestured for us to find a table.

A few places I've worked, we did this, but always before the shift started or when there wasn't anything else to do. If they'd run out or there wasn't time, why would you bother making people stand there and wait whilst you faffed around? We were sitting near the entrance and saw him do this over and over, with queues building up outside the door.

AIBU, or was this a bit weird?

Only marginally more weird than starting a thread on Mumsnet about it .

I'd just been to the MN xmas meetup you see, and been told I needed to frequent AIBU more!

If we run out of wrapped cutlery at work ..we just hand them an unwrapped knife and fork and a serviette

usualsuspect, that's what I would have expected, but the guy was keeping each person/group standing there while he fiddled about with the napkin, even with queues of more than 10 people. Weird.

where was this,I'd like his job?:)

He probably received his millioneth memo polietly requesting that all staff members make sure that ALL cutlery is wrapped.

ALL cutlery he thought...........?