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Olives Or Twist?

Straight up, hold the dairy.
Straight up, hold the dairy.

You should never order or ask for blue cheese-stuffed olives in your martini. Also, when we cringe at you for asking, please don’t try to convince us how good they are.  Cheese, of any kind, in a cocktail is a violation of everything that is sacred in the world.  If you need a cocktail with dairy so badly, order a White Russian. But we’ll still ridicule you in the waitstation. Oh, and we’re not gonna stop everything we’re doing to make you blue cheese-stuffed olives just because we serve blue cheese and have olives, so don’t even bother asking.

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Etiquette For Replacing Napkins and Flatware

It's hard work folding these things.

Sometimes you lose your napkin. It happens. When you need a replacement, don’t just grab one off another table next to you. A staff member will likely see you doing it, and you’ll be ostracized. If you drop your fork, kindly call your server’s attention and ask for another. Don’t just grab a new one from the perfectly-set table next door. Nothing will draw a server’s ire more than messing with his or her finely-manicured, detailed station. Would we walk into your office and grab the stapler off your desk without asking because we need to staple something? Of course not. We’d ask permission.