eating out

05 Aug 2022

The Most Ridiculous Reasons For Stiffing Your Server

If the service is good, it deserves tip and none of these excuses justifies not leaving one.

Bitchy Waiter 0
29 Jul 2020

How Not to be a Karen or Kyle If You’re Unhappy With Your Restaurant Meal

If you’re unhappy with your food or service while dining in a restaurant, there is a right way and a wrong way to express your dissatisfaction. Doing it the wrong way opens you up to the possibility of being labeled a Karen or a Kyle and the world is already

Bitchy Waiter 0
08 Oct 2024

The November 2024 BAS Voter Guide

A Big Change to This Year’s Voter Guide We’ve been doing voter guides for a really long time. I’m pretty sure we put our first one out in like 2010 or something. And I know that thousands of you rely on our voter guides to help you make decision. But

BAS Editorial Team 0
12 Nov 2018

We Brought Our Own Avocados to Brunch. This is How the Restaurant Reacted.

Guest post by Max Silver Millennials and younger generations are constantly being told that they need to be more responsible with their finances. Some Australian millionaire-douchebag by the name of Tim Gurner had the audacity to tell us that if we ever wanted to afford a house, we must stop ordering

Max Silver 0
17 May 2015

Sunday Funnies: Discount Tickets to Lady to Lady Live! In Oakland TONIGHT

Well, here we are in the waning days of the lusty month of May, and there is a strong likelihood that you have grand designs on the Memorial Day Weekend that lies ahead. A trip to the Southland, perhaps, to sneer at our Angeleno siblings and their “summertime”, a little

Stephen Torres - Threadbare-Fact Finder (Editor, San Francisco) 0
27 Feb 2010

Eat Here: BYOB Restaurants

Going out to dinner with a big group is always fun, until the check comes. Then, it turns into a cluster fuck of confusion while people try to figure out how much they owe, how much they should tip, etc. And then you get pissed when you have to pay

Kiley E - Ragamuffin Researcher 0
29 Jan 2010

Restaurant Behavior: Avoid Irritating the Waitstaff

I’ve been waiting tables off and on for about 10 years, and I spent my first year in Brooklyn waiting tables at a diner in Park Slope. It was a fantastic cultural introduction to New York. When a lady ordered an egg cream, I had to go ask the other

Kiley E - Ragamuffin Researcher 0