If you’re in town in August, you’ve got a sweet deal.

Two hundred restaurants plan to participate in Boston’s Summer Restaurant Week, which will actually take place over two weeks, Sunday, August 9, through Friday, August 14, and Sunday, August 16, through Friday, August 21. A prix-fixe lunch will cost you $20.09 and a prix-fixe dinner will set you back $33.09. Nice.

Except for three things. Restaurants go through trends as does every other facet of American society, and there are three that annoy me and might be annoying you too.

First, there is the server, who has done a fine job taking your order and serving it. Then, when your mouth is full or you are deep in conversation with your friends, he or she returns. “Is everything all right?”

Well, of course it is. Otherwise we would have mentioned it. Don’t interrupt diners with that question like that. I understand you have been told to do this, but it is rude. Continue reading →