World’s top bicycle maker is moving U.S. orders to Taiwan factory

Re:World’s top bicycle maker is moving U.S. orders to Taiwan... by pbhjpbhj on Monday June 17, 2019 @08:37PM (#20208767)

>the waiter asked if she would like butter on her bread. My friend waited for it to be added //

I've heard stories like this before. It sounds a bit stupid on the part of Trading Standards (TS).

Waiter: "Do you want butter"

Customer/TS agent: "Yes, please"

Then the TS agent prosecutes you for putting butter on their food. Well why did they ask for butter. I mean, I realise that people are sometimes absolute idiots but I don't think you should prosecute restaurants for serving what you ask for.

A story in our local press was that the TS agent said "no peanuts for me as I have an allergy, I'll have the lamb bhuna, ..." and then they ordered a load of dishes - as you would for a family - and they included in their order "chicken satay". They specifically asked for it.

Guess what the restaurant did, they gave them what they asked for. And Trading Standards prosecuted them and made them out in the press to be evil.

Now to me it sounded like the person was ordering a bhuna with no nuts and a load of stuff for other people, if they're stupid enough to order a nut dish isn't that their own fault?

I don't know what's happened to personal responsibility but the expectation for businesses to coddle people has gone too far IMO.

/rant

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Re:World’s top bicycle maker is moving U.S. orders to Taiwan... by kqr on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @12:43AM (#20209857)

It takes very little for the waiter to inject, "The satay contains peanuts as an essential ingredient, do you still want to order it?"

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Re:World’s top bicycle maker is moving U.S. orders to Taiwan... by CogitoCogito on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @06:09AM (#20211275)

Sounds by that story that the other orders were intended for the other people eating given that the peanut free order was explicitly made. So I can only assume the waiter assumed the rest was an order for the others? Maybe that assumption may not (legally) be made and a warning needs to be made for everyone at a whole table? Either way that seems like a bit of a gray zone. Sounds almost like the point was to trip up the waiter.

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Re:World’s top bicycle maker is moving U.S. orders to Taiwan... by kqr on Monday June 24, 2019 @11:33AM (#20264536)

When you are really allergic to peanuts, it can be an issue just to sit at a table where someone eats peanuts. A waiter should know this. Unlike many other things they deal with, it's literally a matter of life and death.

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Re:World’s top bicycle maker is moving U.S. orders to Taiwan... by pbhjpbhj on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @06:42AM (#20211509)

This I think it's exactly it, they are trying to trip the people up and it's not realistic.

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