Eh, you had to wade through three different discussions to find that out.

Well, it seems the seating is for a disability, which is also totally kosher (though more polite if you tell the hostess right off). But yeah, in re-reading them I think people are reacting to the attitude rather than the literal contents.

I think the problem with the original commenter is that he/she has a bit of a whiny attitude (servers not liking special requests is not about them not liking him/her as a person) and refuses to understand that all special requests take extra work no matter how small it may seem to a customer (they also began by…

In my experience, pastas are usually all cooked together which cuts down on problems, but that might not be the case everywhere. I don't personally think it would be too hard to accommodate (assuming that there isn't just 1 angel hair dish and 1 penne dish, because that means that the kitchen didn't prep a whole lot…

That would be fine for me as long as the restaurant isn't too busy and they don't take forever. The only exception is if they order something that strikes me as odd, in which case I would double check with you to make sure its okay (like once when I had a 10-year-old-ish kid order just pasta noodles. No sauce, no…

Seeing as how you are apparently a reader of this site, shouldn't you be jumping for joy right now? This article was exactly what you hoped for!

If you tell your server at the beginning of a meal "I have this and that allergy" then that is totally acceptable. Having allergies isn't the same as being picky or wanting stuff changed around. Just be reasonable when the server offers suggestions, and try not to make a totally new entree out of the menu parts.

Because the restaurant expects to sell X amount of rice with X plates of chicken. Guaranteed, your one serving of rice might not tip the scales, but a restaurant only preps so much of each thing. If a side specifically comes with only one entree, then they've prepped enough for the number of that entree they expect to…

Yeah, but that's a bit different from a standalone sit-down restaurant, and I bet your manager still wouldn't be happy if the whole party bought McDonald's but decided they liked the tables in your restaurant better. It's one thing for restaurants to make small exceptions in the general "no outside food" rule in the…

From a legal standpoint, it's a liability issue. The kitchen can't know what's actually in the couple's food or if the given cooking directions are correct, so if the couple was to get sick (or fake sick as part of a scam, I suppose) the restaurant could be in trouble.

Because usually plays do allow a certain amount of interpretation and change on the part of the performers? It's not the same sort of art form as a novel, painting, etc. There's nothing at all unusual about plays being shortened or lengthened, or having lines or setting altered.

There's a difference between saying "you are not allowed to talk about your vagina" and "please don't conflate vaginas and womanhood" and it seems like the latter is what's being said here. The Vagina Monologues have empowered a great number of women, but I don't think you can read them without seeing the…

I'm not a huge reader of Marvel fanfic (more of a DC girl, really) but I always found the intersex Loki idea charming both because there aren't a lot of intersex characters out there and because I think it's a bit ridiculous to conclude that all non-human races in comics have the same sort of genitals as humans. That…

Oh god, yes. I feel like this is where a lot of (straight, mostly) female fanfic writers go wrong—they don't pay appropriate attention to the line between fiction and real life. Like conflating cute fanfic tropes with what actual gay men do in their lives, or deciding that writing fanfic makes them an expert on gay…

I don't think that anyone is saying that consumers should never sue, or that products shouldn't be expected to do what is advertised, but surely most people would know that an $8 pair of tights is not going to get rid of all your foot problems. It's like buying one of those x-ray specs out of the back of a comic book…

When I worked at a public library (a very large one I might add, the main one for that county) I had a woman who actually threatened to sue when she learned that I had not personally read each and every book in our catalogue because it was "false advertising."

Yeah, I know, but I consider it my patriotic duty to go on a Quixotic troll-converting mission once in awhile. :P

Oklahoma is lucky they don't have lower average temperatures. If a state with actual snowfall banned hoods the capital would be burned down by angry mobs.

Again, feminism is called feminism because women tend to suffer the brunt of gender discrimination. Also, there's just the basic fact of continuity (why didn't "progressive" ever catch on after the 1920's? Probably because everyone was just used to saying "Democrat" and stuck with it). There are plenty of words that…

The writer was utilizing a rhetorical strategy called hyperbole. Sheesh.