That's simply false and you know it is. There's no reason on earth one needs to go into a bar or restaurant and prove your worthiness of service by accepting being ignored for 5 minutes while the bartender cleans glasses, with not another soul waiting for service. Yet one does have to do that, in a significant percentage of the establishments across both sets of VIs.

I have no problems as I know how to play the game. That doesn't make it right.

"service not servitude"? Really? I think you drank too much of the water down there, in some sense of the term.

I wasn't aware that expecting someone in an establishment to acknowledge the presence of a paying customer by saying "hi, be with you in a minute" or considering it rude when they can't be bothered to constituted servitude.

I recently discovered this forum has an ignore feature. You will now be the second person I've added to it, so save the witless reply.