Louisiana Waiters Reveal 12 Dining Habits You Need to Stop Doing

It doesn't matter whether you're dining at a five-star restaurant in the CBD of New Orleans or a side-of-the-road gas station with a few picnic tables near Henderson, Louisiana here in The Boot, we love to eat. That's why there are so many great restaurants in Louisiana and why places like Red Lobster can only make it in culinary wastelands such as Monroe.

Sure, when we dine out in Louisiana we always going to focus on the food. But the food is only a part of what going out to eat is all about. Let's face it, the atmosphere and ambience of a restaurant can add to the flavor and the excitement and really bring the experience all together.

The atmosphere of a restaurant is kind of like a good roux in a gumbo. It holds all the really good stuff together and then offers a subtle hard to describe feeling that you just can't put your finger on. Those are the kinds of places people in Louisiana go back to a lot.

Another consideration when choosing a place to eat is the service. If the service is good the food is good and the prices are reasonable you can have a nice long restaurant run in Louisiana. If you serve bad food with high prices and your waitstaff is MIA then you can go open a Red Lobster in Monroe.

And while we depend on chefs, cooks, waitstaff, hosts, and bar backs to provide us with a great experience we too have to do our part to make dining out enjoyable. We polled a large sample of waiters, bartenders, DJs, hosts, hostesses, floor managers, and the like and asked them, "What can we as guests do better to make dining out an even better experience".

The answers we got weren't surprising but they were quite familiar. Take a look and see if you can find anyone you know, maybe yourself, in any of these 12 bad habits that Louisiana waiters would love for you to stop doing.