The day was 1 Jan, 2012. I told it will be crowded, so we shall go to the temple the next day. But Janaki wanted to go on the auspicious new year day only. So planned to go to temple, and lunch at restaurant.
After reaching the temple only came to know this would be the plan for most of the people. As expected, packed crowd there. After dharshan, went to a restaurant that we've never tried before.
There was a decent crowd, not over crowded. We managed to get seats, and patiently waited for 10 mins. No one came to clear the table or to attend, then I called one of the server and asked her to clean the table. She took off the plates and left, but did not clean. I was expecting she will come back to clean the table, and take the order. She did not turn up, so after some wait, I called another server who was passing by to take the order.
She took the order, but did not note it down. On the way, she had taken order from couple of other customers as well, but not noting down again. I thought she must have tremendous mental power to remember this if all the items ordered are delivered correctly. We were just chatting and waiting for the items. It was quite some time now, no signs of anything coming up.
Then came the moment of the day which I have never seen in any of the restaurants till now. One of the server had one dish, and she was not sure which table to serve this to, and she was querying in each and every table whether they had ordered the dish. I was laughing seeing this, not sure if out of frustration.
Then we decided no point waiting here any more, we just got off from the table and left the restaurant. At least an event packed day.
