dumb waiters

[Innkeeper]

When we first moved to Searsport back in '88 we went to one of the better restaurants in nearby Bucksport. The waitstaff spent much more time selling us a $2.50 dessert than a $12 bottle of wine (remember this was almost 20 years ago!). I filled out the comment sheet offering to train the staff on wine service for free. No answer. Two weeks later we repeating the whole process. No answer. I called and asked the owner why he didn't respond. He said his customers were beer drinkers, and didn't want his staff trained on the clock. Ten years later we went back, an lo and behold wineservice was top priority. Amazing. He could have had it ten years earlier.