A couple years ago, my wife and I decided we aren't going to order any food until we have our first order of drinks delivered. Too many times the food comes before your drink. We try order one course at a time. Ever since we started doing this, our dinners have been much more enjoyable. On the ship they will want us to order all courses at once, but we still wait for the first round of drinks. We started doing this after our Friday night dinner at our local restaurant served us two rounds of drinks, appetizers, entrees, and desert in 36 minutes.