点评:We’ve visited this garden centre a few times as the produce is great, but yesterday we visited the restaurant with our 6 month old daughter and had the rudest encounter with a restaurant waitress. It was just the one and all others were lovely and generally are, but the tone in which she spoke to us was atrocious. We went to the restaurant with the intention of eating but as our daughter was a bit fussy we decided to just get a drink. My husband ordered a beer and I had a soft drink. Unbeknownst to us, they’re not allowed to serve you alcohol without a meal, and so when the waitress later came over to collect some glasses she very rudely asked if we’d had food, to which we said no. She then said that technically we weren’t allowed the alcohol and genuinely asked us to leave. My husband and I were taken aback and said that we weren’t told about this but obviously the ship had sailed (he was halfway through his drink), and he quite rightly said that she sounded very accusatory that we had somehow intentionally duped them. A couple of other customers agreed with us that she had been very rude.
I would have thought the right way to go about it would have been to suggest we order something, which actually we would have done, but as it was, we decided to leave. I’ve never encountered anything like it.
翻译:我们去过这家园艺中心几次,因为那里的农产品很棒。但昨天我们带着六个月大的女儿去餐厅吃饭,却遇到了一位态度极其恶劣的女服务员。只有她一个人这样,其他服务员都很友善,通常也都很友善,但她跟我们说话的语气实在太糟糕了。我们本来打算去餐厅吃饭,但因为女儿有点闹,所以就决定只喝点东西。我丈夫点了一杯啤酒,我点了一杯软饮。我们之前并不知道,餐厅规定不点餐就不能提供酒水。后来,当那位女服务员过来收杯子的时候,她非常粗鲁地问我们是否吃过东西,我们回答说没有。然后她就说,严格来说我们不能点酒,还真的请我们离开。我和丈夫都吓了一跳,说之前没人告诉过我们这条规定,但显然已经来不及了(他当时已经喝了一半了)。他确实说得对,那位女服务员的语气听起来像是在指责我们故意欺骗他们。其他几位顾客也同意我们的看法,认为她非常无礼。
我觉得正确的做法应该是建议我们点些东西,事实上我们也确实会这么做,但当时的情况是,我们决定离开。我从未遇到过这样的事。