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Title: Do you put your restaurant dishes back in the dishwasher?
Post by: DarkChestOfWonders on August 29, 2018, 08:18:03 AM
Made a comment on a relative's Facebook post about (in general) lazy bastards who eat out at restaurants leaving their dirty plates on the table instead of walking them over to the kitchen and putting them in the dishwasher. If you can order your food, make the poor server bring it to you on a plate, and eat off of said plate...you can drag the empty plate a few extra feet. Yes, you are a lazy bastard if you don't do that, and you should admit it. Well, a friend of said relative admitted she is too lazy to put them up, but was apparently deeply offended by my comment...

So, fess up. Do you do the right thing, or do you leave plates out to roll around and damage people's lives?  :biggrin:
Title: Re: Do you put your restaurant dishes back in the dishwasher?
Post by: Adami on August 29, 2018, 08:20:48 AM
No I do not. In fact, I collect as many empty or used plates as possible, put them in a shopping cart, bring them all to my car and leave the cart wherever I damn well please.
Title: Re: Do you put your restaurant dishes back in the dishwasher?
Post by: Chino on August 29, 2018, 08:23:57 AM
I've never eaten at a restaurant where this is even an option. The closest thing is a fast food place where you just leave your tray on top of the garbage can.

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If you can order your food, make the poor server bring it to you on a plate, and eat off of said plate.

That's the social contract. I voluntarily walk into this place looking to be served food at an inflated cost in exchange for that person, who voluntarily accepted the job, to bring me food in exchange for currency. The whole purpose of their profession is to prepare tables for eating and to bring food to patrons sitting there. I have zero remorse for leaving my plates at the table. That's the point of eating out.
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Post by: The Walrus on August 29, 2018, 08:26:40 AM
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Title: Re: Do you put your restaurant dishes back in the dishwasher?
Post by: KevShmev on August 29, 2018, 08:28:51 AM
What an odd question.

I'm not sure I've ever been to a restaurant that allowed you to go in the kitchen, much less have access to the dishwasher.
Title: Re: Do you put your restaurant dishes back in the dishwasher?
Post by: The Walrus on August 29, 2018, 08:30:26 AM
No I do not. In fact, I collect as many empty or used plates as possible, put them in a shopping cart, bring them all to my car and leave the cart wherever I damn well please.

(https://i.imgur.com/owAByyJ.gif)
Title: Re: Do you put your restaurant dishes back in the dishwasher?
Post by: Adami on August 29, 2018, 08:30:41 AM
...guys....really?
Title: Re: Do you put your restaurant dishes back in the dishwasher?
Post by: Elite on August 29, 2018, 08:31:10 AM
What an odd question.

I'm not sure I've ever been to a restaurant that allowed you to go in the kitchen, much less have access to the dishwasher.

well yeah, this
Title: Re: Do you put your restaurant dishes back in the dishwasher?
Post by: Stadler on August 29, 2018, 08:33:10 AM
(To Chino):  Exactly.

I'm thinking this is sort of a faux-clever way of making an equivalency out of something that isn't equivalent.  But if we want to play along, yeah, when I'm at Burger King or the Golden Corral Buffet, or Ikea, yeah, I bus my own table.  Sometimes I'll even wipe the table off when I'm done.    And the other night, when I was at my local restaurant - that does have full service, by the way - and my grandson left a pile of half-chewed chicken and fries on the floor around his seat, I bent down and picked them up, wrapped them in a napkin and saved them for his snack later put it on the table.  I'm being dead serious. 

I'll go one further:  when I'm at a concert, or movie theater, I pick up my trash when I'm done and throw it away (though to be fair, I rarely if ever eat at a concert, and it's only popcorn and water at a movie).   I went to see The Incredibles II with my daughter and son, and my daughter turned to me as we were walking out and said "Dad, this looks like a crime scene".    When I was coming out the door, the cleaning crew was standing there waiting to go in, and I made it a point of letting the first kid see the trash we were throwing away and I said "I did my part; I'm sorry you have to deal with that.  Some of these people are animals." He laughed and the kid behind him said "Sir, you have no idea, but thank you for noticing."   
Title: Re: Do you put your restaurant dishes back in the dishwasher?
Post by: Stadler on August 29, 2018, 08:33:43 AM
What an odd question.

I'm not sure I've ever been to a restaurant that allowed you to go in the kitchen, much less have access to the dishwasher.

Legally, you probably can't. 
Title: Re: Do you put your restaurant dishes back in the dishwasher?
Post by: Zydar on August 29, 2018, 08:34:23 AM
What an odd question.

I'm not sure I've ever been to a restaurant that allowed you to go in the kitchen, much less have access to the dishwasher.


This.
Title: Re: Do you put your restaurant dishes back in the dishwasher?
Post by: Stadler on August 29, 2018, 08:36:23 AM
Hey, since we're on the subject, when you guys are in the hospital for emergency surgery, do you do the right thing and perform your own bowel resections?  Or are you a lazy f*** and let the doctor do all your work for you? 

:)
Title: Re: Do you put your restaurant dishes back in the dishwasher?
Post by: Adami on August 29, 2018, 08:37:25 AM
Hey, since we're on the subject, when you guys are in the hospital for emergency surgery, do you do the right thing and perform your own bowel resections?  Or are you a lazy f*** and let the doctor do all your work for you? 

:)

This I can answer. I don't perform my own surgeries, but I do go around to all the rooms and perform surgeries on other people. Admittedly, they don't turn out well....for anyone, but at least I'm doing my part. You know?
Title: Re: Do you put your restaurant dishes back in the dishwasher?
Post by: cramx3 on August 29, 2018, 08:54:40 AM
Do you wash your hair before you get a hair cut?

Do you brush your teeth before visiting the dentist?

Do you courtesy flush?
Title: Re: Do you put your restaurant dishes back in the dishwasher?
Post by: Adami on August 29, 2018, 08:59:41 AM
Do you wash your hair before you get a hair cut?

Do you brush your teeth before visiting the dentist?

Do you courtesy flush?

Do you disagree with Stadler before he's even said anything? Hell yes.
Title: Re: Do you put your restaurant dishes back in the dishwasher?
Post by: The Walrus on August 29, 2018, 09:08:02 AM
I don't even use the dishwasher in my apartment. Been here for 2.5 years and didn't even remember I had one until 6 months after moving in. Hand wash for life. Dishwashers never get them clean enough, I don't trust them. I'm also a stickler for getting every last bit of soap/suds off the dishes and I don't get that assurance with the machines. I might waste a little more water but it's so worth it. Something very cathartic about washing dishes to me, put on a little music, get the hot soapy water, good times.
Title: Re: Do you put your restaurant dishes back in the dishwasher?
Post by: cramx3 on August 29, 2018, 09:08:59 AM
I don't even use the dishwasher in my apartment. Been here for 2.5 years and didn't even remember I had one until 6 months after moving in. Hand wash for life. Dishwashers never get them clean enough, I don't trust them.

I'm a lazy fuck #dishwasherlover
Title: Re: Do you put your restaurant dishes back in the dishwasher?
Post by: The Walrus on August 29, 2018, 09:10:27 AM
I don't even use the dishwasher in my apartment. Been here for 2.5 years and didn't even remember I had one until 6 months after moving in. Hand wash for life. Dishwashers never get them clean enough, I don't trust them.

I'm a lazy fuck #dishwasherlover

You know what I'm really lazy about? Cleaning the oven. Fuck that. :lol
Title: Re: Do you put your restaurant dishes back in the dishwasher?
Post by: cramx3 on August 29, 2018, 09:14:33 AM
cleaning the over? never done that before lol
Title: Re: Do you put your restaurant dishes back in the dishwasher?
Post by: The Walrus on August 29, 2018, 09:16:45 AM
cleaning the over? never done that before lol

I had to once after I tried getting a pizza out of the oven and dropped it straight onto the bottom. Only after I managed to scrape it out did I realize how filthy the bottom of the oven was and had to clean it in the event that I dropped a pizza again  :lol
Title: Re: Do you put your restaurant dishes back in the dishwasher?
Post by: Chino on August 29, 2018, 09:20:57 AM
cleaning the over? never done that before lol

I had to once after I tried getting a pizza out of the oven and dropped it straight onto the bottom. Only after I managed to scrape it out did I realize how filthy the bottom of the oven was and had to clean it in the event that I dropped a pizza again  :lol

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Title: Re: Do you put your restaurant dishes back in the dishwasher?
Post by: Dublagent66 on August 29, 2018, 09:21:50 AM
Good joke thread.  Self serve restaurants.  I always take my dishes in the back, wash them and put them in the dishwasher.  Right after I get my own drinks, prepare my meal and bring it out to myself.  I also leave myself a nice tip.  However, it stops there if I have to use the restroom.  I let the manager do that for me. :p



cleaning the over? never done that before lol

I'll have to admit.  I've never cleaned an over either.  :lol
Title: Re: Do you put your restaurant dishes back in the dishwasher?
Post by: Stadler on August 29, 2018, 09:24:03 AM
Do you wash your hair before you get a hair cut?

Do you brush your teeth before visiting the dentist?

Do you courtesy flush?

Yes, yes, and yes.  Seriously, because of my "Social footprintTM and because I don't want to be the guy that the dental hygienists and hair stylists talk about after I leave (did you see the grease in that guy's hair?  Did you smell that guy's breath??).
Title: Re: Do you put your restaurant dishes back in the dishwasher?
Post by: Chino on August 29, 2018, 09:28:50 AM
Do you wash your hair before you get a hair cut?

Do you brush your teeth before visiting the dentist?

Do you courtesy flush?

- Yes

- Yes

- Depends who's in the stall next to me 
Title: Re: Do you put your restaurant dishes back in the dishwasher?
Post by: The Walrus on August 29, 2018, 09:30:36 AM
(https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/232/169/29d.jpg)

 :lol
Title: Re: Do you put your restaurant dishes back in the dishwasher?
Post by: mikeyd23 on August 29, 2018, 09:54:48 AM
Awesome thread   :lol
Title: Re: Do you put your restaurant dishes back in the dishwasher?
Post by: cramx3 on August 29, 2018, 10:08:45 AM
 :lol
Title: Re: Do you put your restaurant dishes back in the dishwasher?
Post by: lonestar on August 29, 2018, 10:32:35 AM
Um, no one has yet mentioned the existence of busboys....





And to seriously ponder this, that food better be cheap as fuck for me to justify the elimination of not only the busboy job but the dishdog as well. I think my union would certainly have a thing or two to say about that.
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Post by: MrBoom_shack-a-lack on August 29, 2018, 11:00:17 AM
This thread went exactly where I thought it would go.  :lol
Title: Re: Do you put your restaurant dishes back in the dishwasher?
Post by: pg1067 on August 29, 2018, 11:05:25 AM
This thread wins the day!
Title: Re: Do you put your restaurant dishes back in the dishwasher?
Post by: vtgrad on August 29, 2018, 11:48:14 AM
You guys have heard of self cleaning nuclear ovens right?  Cut that bad boy on, file off the protective metal piece that locks the oven door during cleaning, and you've got yourself a clean oven and a 600-650 degree pizza oven that will give you crack-crispy crust to go with your cracker-crispy house.
Title: Re: Do you put your restaurant dishes back in the dishwasher?
Post by: Tick on August 29, 2018, 03:32:23 PM
Well...all I can say is a day that has made little sense to this point now makes even less.  :justjen
Title: Re: Do you put your restaurant dishes back in the dishwasher?
Post by: The Walrus on August 29, 2018, 03:33:25 PM
You guys have heard of self cleaning nuclear ovens right?  Cut that bad boy on, file off the protective metal piece that locks the oven door during cleaning, and you've got yourself a clean oven and a 600-650 degree pizza oven that will give you crack-crispy crust to go with your cracker-crispy house.

Yeah, but I don't have one of those, and I'm in an apartment. Also I don't understand how an oven cleans itself, so, there's that.  :lol
Title: Re: Do you put your restaurant dishes back in the dishwasher?
Post by: vtgrad on August 29, 2018, 03:42:46 PM
You guys have heard of self cleaning nuclear ovens right?  Cut that bad boy on, file off the protective metal piece that locks the oven door during cleaning, and you've got yourself a clean oven and a 600-650 degree pizza oven that will give you crack-crispy crust to go with your cracker-crispy house.

Yeah, but I don't have one of those, and I'm in an apartment. Also I don't understand how an oven cleans itself, so, there's that.  :lol

Ex-employees of Lonestar's establishment have been berated so much that they now live as oven-gnomes that silently come to the homes of our fine forum residents and skillfully clean those baked and caked microbiology experiments with lemon scented tears... hoping against hope to one day make it back into the good graces of our resident Chef de Cuisine. 
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Post by: King Postwhore on August 29, 2018, 03:44:30 PM
This must be Tim's fake account.
Title: Re: Do you put your restaurant dishes back in the dishwasher?
Post by: TAC on August 29, 2018, 03:45:31 PM
This must be Tim's fake account.

 :lol

Nope. Proof is in the first sentence of the OP.


Besides, my fake account is going to be Dark Shaft Of Wonders.
Title: Re: Do you put your restaurant dishes back in the dishwasher?
Post by: vtgrad on August 29, 2018, 03:51:52 PM
Just feeling creative today King...

Perhaps fumes from my neighbors chemistry experiments have finally migrated into my home and thus my mind.
Title: Re: Do you put your restaurant dishes back in the dishwasher?
Post by: bosk1 on August 29, 2018, 03:56:21 PM
This thread was already gold.  And then this happened:
You guys have heard of self cleaning nuclear ovens right?  Cut that bad boy on, file off the protective metal piece that locks the oven door during cleaning, and you've got yourself a clean oven and a 600-650 degree pizza oven that will give you crack-crispy crust to go with your cracker-crispy house.

Yeah, but I don't have one of those, and I'm in an apartment. Also I don't understand how an oven cleans itself, so, there's that.  :lol

Ex-employees of Lonestar's establishment have been berated so much that they now live as oven-gnomes that silently come to the homes of our fine forum residents and skillfully clean those baked and caked microbiology experiments with lemon scented tears... hoping against hope to one day make it back into the good graces of our resident Chef de Cuisine. 
:rollin  I can sort of picture Lonestar telling this story to new chefs at Christmas time, sort of like The Grither.
Title: Re: Do you put your restaurant dishes back in the dishwasher?
Post by: King Postwhore on August 29, 2018, 04:04:03 PM
Just feeling creative today King...


No, no.  Take the mantle today.   I'm on vacation. :lol
Title: Re: Do you put your restaurant dishes back in the dishwasher?
Post by: bosk1 on August 29, 2018, 04:05:41 PM
:arranged:
Title: Re: Do you put your restaurant dishes back in the dishwasher?
Post by: King Postwhore on August 29, 2018, 04:06:28 PM
 :lol


Been holding that for the right moment eh? Lol
Title: Re: Do you put your restaurant dishes back in the dishwasher?
Post by: ReaperKK on August 29, 2018, 08:00:20 PM
No I do not. In fact, I collect as many empty or used plates as possible, put them in a shopping cart, bring them all to my car and leave the cart wherever I damn well please.

(https://i.imgur.com/FFXPbb4.gif)
Title: Re: Do you put your restaurant dishes back in the dishwasher?
Post by: lonestar on August 30, 2018, 08:35:17 AM
lol bosk.



I was heartbroken when I noticed that all the Duncan comics aren't in the thread anymore since photobucket took a shit. Had to follow the links and download the pertinent ones so I wouldn't lose them.
Title: Re: Do you put your restaurant dishes back in the dishwasher?
Post by: bosk1 on August 30, 2018, 08:41:49 AM
???  I still see the ones in the original thread.  (and I have them all downloaded and saved anyway...just in case)
Title: Re: Do you put your restaurant dishes back in the dishwasher?
Post by: lonestar on August 30, 2018, 10:59:11 AM
???  I still see the ones in the original thread.  (and I have them all downloaded and saved anyway...just in case)

That's odd, something must've changed. I go to the thread often since it's the source of my Facebook profile pic as well, and I sometimes have to give peeps background on it (I probably owe Edan royalties at this point), and a while ago I noticed they were dead links instead of the pics.