Meal Coming Right On Top Of The Appetizer & Salad ...

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you look like an idiot with all these dishes all over the table

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imo, the restaurant looks foolish.

that is why i stagger my order. waiter/waitress might seem a little annoyed by this, but when they see the tip (assuming decent service) they are ok

I imagine timing is tough in a restaurant...but I would rather have a little wait between courses...Just check on my drink.

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I used to work at Outback

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seems like a good system.

i worked at bennigans, and you could put Appetizer on the ticket, and then put in the entree. it still depended on the servers though, which was a crap shoot

i find that if you tell the waiter that you aren't in a hurry and you want to take your time, they will take care of this for you.

I work at a place that tries to do the whole timing thing... and generally it isn't that bad, but it also depends on what is ordered and who is working in the kitchen.

We can prep our tickets to say that there were salads before the meal, but if this one lazy bitch is making the salads they take way too long to come out. So if the entrees were something that doesn't take long to cook, it can be a problem.

If a table gives me everything at once, I'll always wait for one thing to hit before I put in the next course. Unless they want well done steaks, I'll go ahead and put those in because they take longer to cook.

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I imagine timing is tough in a restaurant..

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Not particularly difficult if you're experienced. You just need to get acquainted with how your kitchen operates and you have to be smart about feeling out the shift. Busier shifts you might want to put the food in a little quicker but if it's slow you know it's going to come out quicker. And obviously different dishes have different cook times so you need to pay attention to what they're ordering.

I think I've only had the entree come out when the app was still on the table once in all my days of serving.

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I have started telling the waiter specifically to not put in one course until I'm done with the previous one. That usually works

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but like Y.A. said earlier, you shouldn't have to do this .. it should be assumed that you are out to eat as a night out and you are not in an incredible hurry .. if you are trying to catch a ballgame, a movie, or something else, then you should have to tell them ..

lets say you order all of that at the same time, your server can drop the entire order hoping that the kitchen expedites it in a timely manner, or if they dont have faith in the kitchen, they can stager the order to the kitchen, hoping that there is not enough lag in between plates to get your head on a swivel wondering what is taking to long, and what if a server stagers the order and an expo/runner drops your salad, and you need to put that steak order in, but another table is holding you hostage while they make choices and ask dumb questions, then the customer is done with the salad and the steak is not even in the kitchen and stuck behind 15 other tickets, now all that being said, i believe this is all the managements fault for not having a system in place to handle how tickets are expedited, it should be one or the other and not the servers choice of how to time things out of the kitchen ... seriously, i could write a manifesto on a restaurant's owner/management/server/customer's relationship to each other and how things are done, i have seen it all

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but like Y.A. said earlier, you shouldn't have to do this ..

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Definitely not. But sadly, there are some really stupid people who wait tables.