Katie Dee brought her two-year-old daughter with her to a nice evening dinner at a restaurant called Dough. Pixie, Dee’s daughter, were being especially picky and miffed that night. Dee had to put extra pounds of patience on.
When Pixie asked if their server could sit and dine with her, Dee didn’t know what to do. But their server, Mark Quinn, obliged and gladly helped Dee out. He sat to another table with Pixie and conversed, even when the restaurant was getting busier and busier.
Mark Quinn told TheLADBible, “Katie had come to meet a couple of friends and brought Pixie along with her. Pixie decided on the Micky Mouse pizza and I then brought her across crayons and a coloring book.”
Quinn continued, "Pixie insisted she be served by me so I went back over she asked me to cut her food up and then afterwards when her mum and friends' food arrived. I brought her ice cream and kept her entertained for a few minutes/no more than ten...
"I wouldn't say I did anything that my job didn't entail. It's all about going to extra mile for a customer and taking care of Pixie to give her mum that ten minutes of down time."
Dee said the whole episode happened around Christmas. She posted the details of the event on Facebook just a week ago. The post reads:
"Over Xmas I went to Dough to meet up with some friends I've not seen for years, Pixie in tow. I'd told her already that they do pizza in a Mickey Mouse shape so she was SUPER excited.
"As we sat down she asked our waiter (in the pics) for a Mickey Mouse pizza and some spicy juice (fizzy water) and some crayons please please please!!!!
"I'm gossiping away with my buds and Pixie says, "mummy, where's that beautiful man gone?" Her words not mine!!!!!
"We all laughed and I told her he would be back soon with her pizza.
"This dude walks to our table with Pixies pizza, crayons and spicy juice, her face lights up as he puts the pizza in front of her, until she realises it needs to be cut up.
"’Can you cut it up please?’ She says, so I start cutting up her pizza...
‘Mummy no! I want the beautiful man to do it!’
"So, he does it even though I apologize and say he absolutely doesn't need to, he cuts up Pixies pizza into tiny pieces. He even cuts up the bigger bits when Pixie points out that they are not "pixie sized" enough, and checks with her that they are all ok before he goes.
"This guy came back to check on Pixie every 10 minutes. By this point he's not even our waiter anymore - (The lady with the red shoes has replaced 'the beautiful man') the place is getting busy, yet he comes back just to tell her how brilliant her coloring is - perfect timing! (she's about to have a meltdown because she went over the lines...)
"All this time my food is going cold, I've barely spoken to my friends whilst I've been picking up crayons and making sure she's eating all her perfectly sized pizza, and low and behold over comes this hero who seemed to sense my hunger (perfect timing again!) and asks pixie if she would like to eat with him at the next table.
"If she didn't already think he was wonderful enough, he then produces a bowl of ice cream and sits with her talking about her day while she gets ice cream EVERYWHERE. He laughs at her silly faces and doesn't once complain at the mess.
"It might not seem like a lot, but that 10 minutes with my friends was heavenly. My food was still hot (ish!), no drinks got spilt which is a record, all toddler meltdowns were avoided, and most of all my little girl had the biggest smile on her face all night.
"So, thank you to the waiter at dough, for taking my 2 years old on her first date, thank you for letting a busy mum have her dinner in peace, Thank you for making sure my little one felt like a Princess, and Thank you for going above and beyond your job for a little girl who you've never met before.
"In this miserable time, there are still people who make the world a better place, even if it's just for 10 minutes at a time.”
What asked what really prompted him to do the generous and sweet thing that he did, Quinn told TheLADBible, I just took the initiative to just give her that time. Like I said, I kept getting requested to come back from Pixie! Cute really."
