I'm not sure if this is true of all Italian restaurants, but it's been my experience that if you're eating Italian, you shouldn't be in any kind of rush. There are four or five courses to the meals, and they give you plenty of time for each one. We were there for just about two hours. While we were there, we got to experience something I never thought I'd see. Our waitress came out as the salads were being served, and she told us that they were out of bread.
Bread is a staple of the Italian restaurant.
Like I said, Italian meals are meant to be eaten slowly, so we had plenty of time to kill between courses. All six of us took on different names and pretended to be different characters. I can't remember everybody's names, but mine was Ta'esha and Tiffany's was Bon'Quisha. As much as we were cutting up, I'm pretty sure that the people around us thought that we'd just escaped from an institution or something. Oh, the restaurant did finally get some more bread, but I think they just sent somebody to the local supermarket, because it looked a lot like white WonderBread to me.