How much pepper can you use in one meal??? (overfilled condiment rant & rave)

Mon/August/2006 01:27 AM Filed in: Rants & Raves
Ok, this is minor, but see if you agree...CONDIMENTS!! ARRGG...
So here is one of my first posts on the "new" ChefLife...and it's a simple one. How many times have you been in a restaurant, and been UNABLE TO USE pepper, salt, hot sauce, etc... because the overzealous lead waiter has DEMANDED that their underling waiters fill the condiments to the tippy tippy top? The salt is so full, you can't get any kind of shake out of it, so you barely get salt out?? I JUST LOVE when they overfill the Tobasco so full that I have a seizure, shaking the bottle so many times to get three drips out...what gives? Do they actually think that you'll go through even a third of a bottle in one day?? I realize that we don't like condiments to look sloppy on the table, but you do realize that full ketchup bottles are "topped off" ? with other ketchup from other bottles? and that they can explode when the ketchup gets spoiled in the bottle?

I get it, fill up the condiments, but give it a little room to breathe! You lose function when it is so full. That's it, no more, no less. thanks for reading.... Chef Tony