I hear you, although I think the opposite is worse.
No A/C in the summer and no heat in the winter.
Sitting near drafty doors in the winter and near the ac in the summer is just as bad. And putting on your coat and saying IT’S COLD IN HERE doesn’t help. Because I am becoming passive aggressive during my midlife years…
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There were restaurants we stopped going to in the winter because they were too cold. I have no desire to eat lunch wearing my coat. (Yes, I could throw a sweater on, but I get cold hands very easily these days and I’m not eating in gloves.)
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Do they turn blue or black?
An old friend and his partner opened a few burger/pizza places a number of years ago where you order on an iPad. I haven’t been to one of them in a couple of years but he once told me his staff spent way too much time explaining how they worked to customers; almost to the point of negating the server time saving it was partly designed to achieve. I’d hope that tech knowledge has increased enough that it’s no longer a problem, but I haven’t see. Him to ask.
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No.
I am consistently stunned and appalled at the level of air-conditioning during summers not just in restaurants, but also supermarkets (I shiver, shake, and shimmy through the refrigerated sections & the fresh meat, seafood & cheese counter), and especially big box stores like Lowe’s or Home Depot. Really? Your screws and wood planks need to be kept at below freezing temps? 'TFOH 
One of the grocery stores I go to during the summer has the ac cranked up so high it’s ridiculous. One of these days I am going to get frost bite since it is so cold in that store.
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I would say . If the food is ok . OK. If the service is really lacking. NEXT . … LATER
The heat hits you much worse when you go out of the overly air conditioned places.
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The store I go to is small so I guess it’s a blessing in disguise I don’t have to spend too much time in there. I don’t know how the staff manage having to spend an entire shift in that cold.
I gather that when on hot days outdoors, the store staff wearing fleece vests and jackets inside are a good indication of air conditioning abuse.
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I always feel bad for people who have to work retail in December.
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I feel worse for customers who have to go retail stores during the holidays.
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There’s a food store in the Laurentian mountains north of Montreal that has a serious cheese section that is refrigerated. At the entrance door to that section there are a bunch of heavy coats for customers to put on before entering; they really make a difference.
Yup. Can’t escape the Christmas music at the supermarket.
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I used to live near the famous Park Slope Food Co-op in Brooklyn. There were heavy coats by the entrance to the refrigerator and freezer sections for those who volunteered to take inventory in those sections during the after-hours Sunday night inventory shift. (That was my shift, but I never ventured into the cold areas.)
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Or the dentist’s office or the pharmacy, the salon, the utility office, etc. etc., etc.
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Dentists often keep the temperature low in order to make an environment less welcoming to bacteria, etc. Doctors probably would, but since people often have to remove their clothing, it’s not really a good idea.
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