The Association of Waitstaff Etiquette is recommending that restaurant waitpersons discontinue the custom of offering diners an open-ended “Enjoy!” – and that they start specifying: “Enjoy your Chablis!” “Enjoy your tuna melt!” etc.
“It takes away the guesswork,” says AWE spokesperson Monica Warren. “Customers won’t be left wondering, ‘Enjoy what’”?
The recommendation isn’t sitting well with some servers, however. “What’s wrong with letting them use their imaginations?” asks Melinda Cooper, a waitress at WHAT THE? – a new Gastro-Pub in Mid-Central Midtown. “Let them decide what they want to enjoy.”
Still, Warren expects most will go along with the recommendation, which is effective June 1, 2016. However, she’s anticipating more resistance to one set for 2017: That servers also get specific when they say, “Have a good one!”
