[rusticgal]

Many years ago when my first son started school, my husband and I found ourselves with an opportunity to pop out for some lunch. We went to a mexican restaurant in Virginia Water. The waiter took our order but did not write it down but he said we were not to worry as he had it in his head. The Restaurant was not busy either.....lo and behold the wrong meal was served and we had to wait for a new order then having to rush the meal to make it back to pick my son up from school....a rare date opportunity ruined.
On Thursday last week we treated ourselves to Pizza Express in Farnham...I love their Pizza's. The Waiter was charming and helpful....then he took our order. My husband has various additions to his Sloppy Guiseppi...I just add mushrooms to a Margarita. The Waiter used the method of 'taking a mental note' of the order much to our horror. Unbelievably he got my husbands order correct but failed to add my one topping of mushrooms to mine...so back the order went. Another drink later and the new pizzas appeared...mine had two toppings this time, Mushrooms and red onion. Now I like red onion but I simply didnt want it on my Pizza...I tried taking them off but all I could taste was onion and there were lots of them.... So third time lucky and another drink later the Pizzas arrived pretty much to our satisfaction (albeit my husbands was slightly burnt)
The Manager was very good and refused any kind of payment...although we were happy to pay for the drinks.
So in future I will NEVER let anyone take an order unless its written down...

Anyone else had this experience??