[ratelimitsteve]

18 years of restaurants checking in, and we did everything we could to be respectful of allergies but the onus was always on the customer to tell us. Now when I go to places to eat they ask me, which is a different approach and like comment OP one I find much more often in more expensive restaurants. I think you're reading way too deep into this comment. What do you think, chat?

[_0ffh]

I just think it seems hugely inefficient for a waiter to ask hordes of non-allergic people for allergies for every one allergic person that could just as well announce theirs.

[codezero]

A lot of restaurants automatically bring you refills without even asking. The reason they do it is that it's good service, and people appreciate that kind of minutiae, if you don't drink it, it's no skin off your back, and it costs so little that it's worth having that simple win on the customer service side because it creates repeat customers, and if you're not the allergic person, you should consider the number of other things they're doing as a courtesy to provide good service to you, a non-allergic, I guarantee you'll notice a number of things.

[KerrAvon]

So what? It's a trivial kindness and it takes a few seconds. What else were they going to do with those seconds? It's different if it's fast food, where maximizing people I/O does matter. But that's not the case here.

Further if the restaurant asks ahead of time, that's a signifier that they take it seriously. If you have to tell them, it's much more likely you will encounter cavalier treatment of cross-contamination and such. For some people, that really can be life or death.

[ratelimitsteve]

>It's a trivial kindness and it takes a few seconds

We're doing 2200 covers tonight. If you know what that means then you know I don't have a few seconds to spare, and if you don't then you're not really qualified to have this discussion.

>Further if the restaurant asks ahead of time, that's a signifier that they take it seriously. If you have to tell them, it's much more likely you will encounter cavalier treatment of cross-contamination and such

These are provable statements. Prove them.

[morshu9001]

It's a signifier that you're in that part of town. Life or death for some people.