Observations at a Sit Down Restaurant

Sitting down to eat at a restaurant is something that we don't do very often. We ate at ABC Mandarin in Roy, UT.

After reading some of my other classes observations about the public I was expecting people to be eating and texting each other. We were there early in the evening and most people were in small groups. There were three other families there beside us.

The waitress was constantly watching non-verbal clues. She watched for people to wave her over, she watched for people to stop eating, or put down an empty glass.

One woman and her small group looked like she was in pain. She had a pinched face and kept leaning on someone for support. She had a small child that was being led by a grandmother type person. They used the most non-verbal communication out of everyone in the room.  They played peek-a-boo and tied to get the woman in pain to laugh. When they left she didn't seem to be having as much hard time walking as when they came in.