Waitress with tattoos that serve food. are they disgusting?

Yes, it has happened. No, it does not bother me.

I honestly think that’s shit. I mean piercings are one thing, but tattoos are another. It also depends on the restaurant. Yeah it’s not cute to see chicks with bars through their noses, eyebrows, whatever. But don’t judge your server or food because of how your server looks.

every server in portland or has piercings and tattoos unless you go to a really expensive restaurant and even then they are just covered up. get over it

Tattoos are not the reasons for the bad food, but they sure are a symptom. It indicates that the owners do not really care about the quality of their service, which includes the appearance of the service personnel and likely translates to the quality of the food as well.
But don’t diss the server for that, diss the owner. But none of this is a guarantee. The owner might just be a nice guy who likes to give people a chance and the food may turn out fine.
Or he may not have a wide selection of applicants without piercings and tattoos in the area where he has his restaurant.

The cook/chef makes the food substandard not the waitress. Her appearance may have put you off but she had nothing to do with the quality of the food.

@ragingloli How does having tattoos lower the quality of anything? You judge a person by the way he/she acts. I have a tattoo, doesn’t mean I’m less quality than anyone else.

In LA this is the norm and is not in any way an indicator of food quality.

Body jewelry and tattoos are a form of art here.

It’s not the tattoos, it’s the mole on her chin with a great big clump of hairs growing out of it that makes me go BAAAGGHHHH! Or the unibrow.

@chelseababyy I was going to ask the same question…minus the part about having a tattoo

@chelseababyy
I am not judging the person wearing the rings or tattoos.
It is simply reality that potential customers may be put off by body modifications. A restaurant owner has to take this into account when he selects applicants, because this may likely translate directly to decreased revenue because people don’t come because of this.

Tattoos that serve food? Never seen one of those. What kind of tattoo does that? ;-)

You should be more worried about whether they washed their hands

@ragingloli I don’t believe that is true. I work at a place where people have tattoos and whatnot and we are the busiest restaurant out of all of the other restaurants in our chain in this state. We are also the 2nd or 3rd busiest out of CO, WY and UT. Luckily most of our customers are not judgmental and interact with us and talk with us before assuming that we suck, or that the food will suck.

At one of my favorite places to eat all of the servers have dreads, tattoos, and piercings. The food is amazing and all of the waiters are wonderful! So no can’t agree with you on that one.

Disgusting, really? If you think that’s disgusting maybe you should just eat at home.

Actually, a tattoo or a piercing can indicate quite a clean person. Were her piercings infected? Were parts of the tattoos crusted or puckered? If not, then she takes good care of her body and cleans the piercings and tattoos.

Also, if you think tattoos lower quality, never watch Top Chef. Some of those chefs are tattooed and pierced like whoa.

@ragingloli: A potential would be more put off by an unclean, unscrupulous, inconsiderate, etc. person than a tattooed one I can bet. I would much rather be served by someone who sets off metal detectors and brings my food hot and in a timely fashion and is nice to me and everyone at the table than someone who looks perfectly respectable and is rude, unclean and slow.

@chelseababyy
I posit it also heavily depends on the intended clientéle. Sure, a more casual customer base may be a lot less put off by it, but the picture might drastically change when it comes to food snobs and rich people who only go to high class luxury restaurants.

That seems pretty judgemental and incredible rude of you to say

@KatawaGrey Lurve for mentioning Top Chef. I would eat Micheal Voltaggio’s food any day of the week, and let him be the father of my children. :)

I have eaten at 5 star restaurants- 5 star yes- and seen tatoos on the necks and wrists of waitstaff and sommeliers. these places have maintained their ratings.

I pay no attention to what people look like.(unless she is hot)

@trailsillustrated
noserings and lip piercings too?

@trailsillustrated – ~Now dearie, just because it was a Texaco truck-stop with several signs in the parking lot does not mean it was 5-stars.~

@Corporate_Avenger the bay house- @ragingloli—they were wearing those little plastic see through barbells I could tell cause I have em

@trailsillustrated
Don’t know what that is, care to explain?

@ragingloli I don’t know how to link a pic but maybe someone else on here that knows what i’m talkiing about does- lots of people in the service industry wear them when they work at jobs where they can’t display piercings

so they do make them cover the piercings

A lot of waitresses are either mothers balancing part time jobs or students, so you’re bound to get the one oddball every now and then.

I don’t know just how much the waitress’s physical appearance has to do with the quality of the food and if such should be used as an instant barometer for standards, but as rude as that sounds, you might have a point.

Almost.

Cheaper places of eatery like fast food places and the slightly above thereof might place less restrictions on public appearance than a place where the cheapest thing you can get is a twenty five dollar entry.

However, the waitress herself doesn’t change the quality of the food, unless she pisses in it before delivering it to you or something.

I guess it’s just a taste issue; Some may prefer greasy crap over fine steak, but I must stress, the waitress’s appearance doesn’t mean the food won’t be any good. That reasoning on its own is actually pretty fail.

@ragingloli no they’re see through- like a normal piece of body jewelry but they’re tiny and sort of see thru and yes, they couldn’t have obvious piercings but some had neck and wrist tatttoos.

Where do you people live? I can go to a fshmancy restaurant in L.A. and see servers with tattoos. It’s not rare, it’s typical. Shit. You can go to Spago in jeans. I can also go to Rodeo and see shop workers with tattoos. Once again I’m glad to live in L.A.

Here is what @trailsillustrated is talking about. I think

@sjmc1989 thankyou

No, they’re hawt: thevortexbarandgrill.com

@trailsillustrated Your welcome :)

Really? These people though they appear different are just trying to make a living and support themselves.

interesting

Hey I think that was my Mom!! If she was wearing combat boots,,,,it was her !!! hope you tipped her well !!

I want to know the same thing as @tinyfaery, where the hell are you people?!

Tattoos are common all over where I live, unless you work in a more office like setting.

My husband was denied a job as a server because of wrist tattoos, and it wasn’t even a high end restaurant…we felt they were severely limiting themselves in staff because of a silly rule (their attire for servers was a chef jacket with rolled up sleeves..so, it’s not like he could have hidden them.)
I think, unless the tattoo is an offensive symbol…ohh like a swastika, then who cares if it’s showing?
I do understand the piercing thing. I have a lip ring, it’s frustrating that I have to take it out when I do work, but I know when you work in the service industry you have to please the customers and also piercing balls can slip out which could be bad.

At my favorite restaraunt, I think they encourage tattoos and piercings for waitstaff. I’m so used to it I don’t even notice anymore, and the food is excellent.

As much as I don’t like piercings and tattoos (my personal preference), I don’t think waitresses who have them are “disgusting”. Having them is not “disgusting”; it’s just another style.

Unles she was getting a tattoo while serving my food, I wouldn’t be too concerned.

If the food was terrible, take it up with the owner/chef/cook. It’s not the wait staff’s fault.

I’m with @cprevite having not read all 40 quips above me. However, I do not as a rule like tats very much – especially not on women’s arms – but I’d rather an esthetic looking woman with tats, than, say, a hairy-armed guy serving my food.

Well the waitress didn’t cook up the meal and I think tattoos are great unless they are all over someone’s body.

I judge only the quality of the food and service. The appearance of the server is unimportant to me unless there are obvious hygiene issues.

Well, then. That’s a little over the top.

So does having a tattoo make food you bring to someone of a lower quality? Do you have to be able to see it? Or does the ink just somehow pervert everything around it?

Okay, i see that my question has upset a lot people here. i forgot to add one small detail to my question: this person was also wearing a dirty smock and smoking a cigarette. does this make a difference in your answers? john

No,disgusting is when you go into the restroom and one of the cooks is in there exiting one of the stalls and doesnt wash his hands.

@john65pennington: Would that have been any less of a health hazard is she lacked the tats?

I call bullshit.

I find it surprising that tattoos and piercings are somehow related to smoking and a dirty smock. Of course unclean attire and smoking would be considered disgusting to most in these circumstances.

If she was smoking etc, why were the tattoos the main issue for you in this instance?

My mom taught me also “don’t judge a book by it’s cover”. Funny how many people forget the simple powerful lessons from youth.

and…and…annnnd….She was missing an ear!

How ‘bout that? Huh? Huh?

Aaaaaannnnddddd, she was bleeding everywhere with snot dripping from every orifice. What about that, huh?

Aaaaaaaaaaaaand, she was actually Mr. T and beat me up when I didn’t eat the soup!

Aaaaannnnddd wouldn’t ya know…the missing ear was in the soup.

Ok, NOW I think she is disgusting… but only because floaters in my soup are bad bad.

This thread took a very strange turn :)

so im a server and have a tattoo that is visible. i dont think it is right for you to judge someone based on their tattoo(s).