If you mean since I already ordered my food, then 30 minutes. If you mean, I haven't yet ordered, then around 5 minutes depending on how busy they are.
It depends on how busy the place seems to be. If they're obviously having a very busy night I don't want to be the jerkoff complaining that they're not the first ones being served. I do get frustrated when I see other people who arrived after me eating before I do though...
Typically I'll wait about half an hour but if I'm sure the service has been exceptionally poor then I might complain sooner.
I ask when ordering what the wait on food is. If it then goes ten minutes over that estimate, I'll ask for a check.
Unlike some people I've encountered who order, then complain at me (the bartender) five minutes later that their food hasn't turned up. Food is, and should be, cooked to order, not to impatience.
Half an hour. I am very patient. Unless I'm with Bad Company. You begin to notice the time alot sooner. That being said, my baquette+garlicbutter had better arrive within 10 minutes, that shit it vital.
I do not wait. I enter and my food should already be prepared without the need of a waiter to take my order. If this does not happen, I cook the head chef and eat him. Do I leave a tip? Of course, I leave the survivors with their lives and a mental disturbance which should make them think twice before not having dreams of my meal the next day. It is done.
If I'm just picking up a couple or burgers from a place like applebees or whatever to bring home? 2 sec lol at the table? if it's long enough to piss me off it's long enough to say fuck it pay for whatever drinks we had and leave.
I would never complain about that, unless I was also leaving the restaurant because they already took too long. Just like "don' piss where you eat" - "don't complain where you eat, or someone else will piss where you eat".
I have never complained at a restaurant. One time in Norway it took over an hour to get our food, because one of their chef guys had quit so the kitchen was running slower. Everyone else in the restaurant was bitching about and whining but we were rewarded free nachos and refill because we did not.
Complaining after 5 minutes is riddicolous unless we're talking about McDonalds here or something.
" If you mean since I already ordered my food, then 30 minutes. If you mean, I haven't yet ordered, then around 5 minutes depending on how busy they are. "
"30 mins, most of the time. I mostly prefer to just go to those "Walk in, be seated, get told within 5 minutes to go fill your plate with whatever you want" things. "
As a person who has worked part time in several restaurants, I can tell you that a cook's job is not easy; you have to take into account that they are most likely understaffed and undertrained, doing pickup and delivery orders as well. I will happily wait 30 minutes, though 45-60 starts to get unreasonable for any restaurant.
Also, I generally try to avoid busy restaurants for this exact reason. I mean if you're willingly going to a place that is packed you're practically begging to wait.
I won't complain until after I have finished and am leaving or even the following day with a phone call. I have work in the food service industry before as a dish pig while I was in high school. I have seem some of the things that cooks/chefs do to a person who has come across as a douche bag. So I know better.
Until the manager comes out usually, if he/she doesn't come out I'll usually wait about 20 minutes until I ask whats going on. But I'm NOT a douche about it.
I cook for a living, so I almost never actually complain. I don't like to cause problems because I've been on the wrong end of a fairly small and petty complaint causing no end of headaches for staff. If something is just unacceptable I will do my best to good-natruredly ask that it be fixed, and if at the end of things I'm really unhappy with my experience then I just don't return.
Easily 30 minutes. I suggest when you go to a restaurant that you bring something to pass the time, like a book or a crossword puzzle or a DS or whatever. Makes waiting for your food easier.
I don't really mind we normally see it as a chance to drink more, but most of the time as a poor student we can't afford fine dining and restraunts, so we pub food it, and it's made alot quicker.
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