Mag Tinagalog sa Cebu Restaurant

[Tarmac]

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What is it with some restaurants here in Cebu that waiters insist on speaking in Tagalog? Many of the outlets in Terraces Ayala are like that, but there are a lot of other places as well. Bisag Binisay-an na ug tubag ang waiter, mag Tinagalog gihapon. Unya ang Tinagalog medyo gahi-gahi ra ba, klaro kaayong Bisaya sila (unya mag Binisaya man pud sila kung uban waiter ilang ka storya).

I can see that some of the Manila-based restos send trainers who insist that their waiters and waitresses speak to their customers in Tagalog, making sure to intersperse "po's" and "ho's" (which are alien words to us). Do these trainers think that Bisaya is a vulgar or inferior language? Or hadlok lang sila malibak?

But worse is one restaurant that is obviously homegrown but which still has waiters that speak in Tagalog.

I'm not launching another anti-Tagalog thread. I just don't understand why more and more restaurants in Cebu insist on having their waiters address the customers in Tagalog.

[syphoon]

kapoy bah ana...kung kita mangadto sa manila mag tagalog ta
pero kung sila mo anhi dinhi magtagalog gihapon ta? ahw binuang nana
dapat sila moanhi mag binisaya jud sila diba?

[Sol_Itaire]

failure of the management to understand the cebuano culture

[zmon]

ah ka samok....kita may alkansi anih!...paminawa gud kung unsa nah ka yuckers ang magtagalog!...may pa mag english nlng!.hati.on nlng ning pilipinas ui...maglahi tag a2!

[Tarmac]

Ako gyud gipangutana ang usa ka waiter, ingon siya mao daw ang gi ingon sa ilang manager. Ako siyang gi ignan nga mag Binisaya na lang siya kay Bisaya man mi. Di gihapon siya. Ingon ana tingali siya ka hadlok sa iyang manager.

Usahay mag Tinagalog ang waiter tuhod dili sila taga Cebu (basin Waray, Ilonggo, Bicolano o Tagalog). Masabtan ra na... nanginabuhi lang sila diri sa Sugbu. Ako gani silang tubagon ug Tinagalog pud (pero mas maayo unta mag Iniglish na lang). Pero kung management policy na, lahi na nang storya-a.

[ashmae_01]

mag tnagalog pra ang mga tagalog mkasabot kay alkanse man cla d kasabot ug bisaya

[Sol_Itaire]

dali ra na. talk to the manager and point out the ignorance.

gilang inig adto nako heheh

[coolnezz]

what's the f***in' big deal? you can understand it can't you?
no wonder this f***in' country is so divided. petty minds.

[Tarmac]

what's the f***in' big deal? you can understand it can't you?
no wonder this f***in' country is so divided. petty minds.

I understand Tagalog perfectly well, certainly much better than you understand the issue here.

First off, if you read my post carefully, you will see that I have no issues about speaking Tagalog per se. I spend half of my time in Manila, studied there and worked there for years.

The issue is the insistence of management of some restaurants in Cebu that their waiters speak in Tagalog exclusively. Put another way, my question is what do some managers find so wrong about their waiters speaking Bisaya in a restaurant in Cebu?

Granted that not all customers who walk into the place are Bisaya speakers, given how cosmopolitan Cebu is. But that argument no longer holds water when customers are already speaking to an obviously Bisaya waiter in Bisaya. At the very least, it makes for a very awkward situation where customers begin wondering whether they should switch to Tagalog (which they may not be comfortable with) or keep speaking Bisaya.

Obviously, from the demeanor of one of our waiters when he explained it was management policy, they faced sanctions for speaking the vernacular. Sort of like the fine some English teachers levied on their students for speaking Bisaya in the classroom.

Don't make this out to be the "petty-minded parochial Bisaya" thread that you think it is, expletives or no.

[coolnezz]

you just can't win in this country. if you speak english some camp will criticize you, if you speak tagalog another group will criticize you, if you speak another language another group will raise eyebrows. you know what, just make chinese the national language.