She Criticized A Waitress Who Asked If Her Baby Needed A High Chair
Servers at restaurants have to deal with all sorts of personalities daily in their job, and there is almost always going to be someone with an issue with them.
While you may often hear about a server being inconsiderate or rude, this mother claims that her waitress’ questions were just flat-out silly.
A TikTok that this mother (@j.c.22) posted online is stirring up quite a debate. In the video, the mother shares her experience with a waitress, but she is receiving backlash for doing so.
At the start of the video, the mother shows her, her husband, and her newborn all together seated at a table in a restaurant.
She is holding the small infant up to her chest and begins retelling the story of what happened when she walked into the restaurant.
She said that she let the waitress know that it was going to be two adults dining with them today, and the waitress asked if the infant was joining them.
The mother was kind of confused by this question, thinking that the answer was obviously yes, and replied with such.
Then, the waitress asked if they would need a high chair for the baby. Again, the mother thought this was a silly question, showing her baby to the video viewers, thinking that it should be obvious to anyone that her baby would be too small to be able to sit in a high chair.
Next, already seated at the table, the waitress came by and asked what they would like to drink. The mother replied that she and her husband would like a Coke and water.
Viacheslav Yakobchuk – stock.adobe.com – illustrative purposes only, not the actual person
The waitress checked with the mother and asked if the baby would need anything to drink as well, to which the mother replied, “No, no,” again, showing how young her child was.
To top it all off, the waitress then told the couple that she would be bringing by rolls and plates and asked if they would need two or three plates. The mother replied that they would only need two, again thinking this question was unnecessary.
“We don’t need a high chair, the baby does not need a drink, and the baby does not need a plate to eat rolls,” the mother says at the end of her video.
A lot of people are coming to the waitress’ defense and saying that the mother’s reaction to the situation was unnecessarily rude.
Sure, it may have been a fun story to tell other mothers, but there was no need to rant about it on the internet, especially in the restaurant where the waitress could have easily overheard.
Waitresses often work long shifts and may have just asked these questions out of habit. A lot of servers are also trained to ask certain questions and could get in trouble if word gets back to their boss that they were inconsiderate of a guest of any age.
Also, she could have been a young girl or a woman with no children, who perhaps doesn’t know at what age a child starts using a high chair or drinking water.
“I’m 37, no kids, never spent time around babies, and I would have asked all the same questions,” one commenter said.
“Coming from a host, after working for a while, you just follow a script, and everything gets jumbled together. I’ve done this 7 hours into my shift too,” another person explains.
Do you agree that the mother should have been more gracious towards the waitress instead of critical?
https://www.tiktok.com/@j.c.22/video/7237151507353898286
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