THE PLATESNATCHING PROBLEM

Re Deborah Netburn’s article about servers being too quick to remove plates from restaurant tables [“Are You Done With That? How About Now? Now?,” Feb. 21]:

I too resent having plates pulled from fellow diners while I’m still eating.

I know that servers and busboys are doing only what they’ve been trained to do. I’m afraid it will have to be the customers who will have to train restaurant owners.

Stephen Blum

Los Angeles