I’m a guy who likes condiments. Now read that sentence again because I don’t want you to get the wrong idea. That’s stuff like ketchup, mustard, relish, ranch dressing, etc. Sometime this year, Van Zile decided to trash the individual ketchup bottles in favor of the “spoon-it-out-of-a-giant-bucket-under-an-inconveniently-placed-sneeze-guard” method. Now, I understand why they might not want to continually buy individual bottles or even fill up those bottles from a larger container. What I can’t understand though, is why they won’t just go buy a pump for the container to simplify the whole process and return the ketchup and mustard to the end of the counter where it belongs. It wouldn’t be so bad if the little cups they provide were actually bigger than the utensil used to spoon the Ketchup out with, but no, that’s apparently too much to ask. Since they can’t do that, I definitely won’t hold my breath for the pump…

Anyway, the result of this catastrophe of Ketchup is inevitable spillage onto my fingers. As such, when I get to the table to sit down, I immediately need a napkin. So I reach for one, only to come up empty. I take a closer look and realize the napkins are in the basket upside-down.

Now paper napkins are generally folded in a very specific way so as to leave a flap on one side for easy grabbing, whether it be out of a dispenser, off the top of a stack, or out of a basket. How hard is it to make sure the stack goes in flap side up? Apparently, when the baskets get refilled, people are just guessing at the appropriate orientation (badly). It’s all about the details people…

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