Thoughts on Restaurants and "Service"

What does sitting down at the table entitle us to?

A couple of weeks ago, I gave a few examples of weird economic adjustments going on, and asked for any examples you may have seen. (For example, I found that for two or three weeks, the milk bottles at Trader Joe’s were improperly sealed and were slightly leaking—I took this to mean there was some maintenance issue at the bottling plant that wasn’t gett…