Frequent diners have surely noted that the last year or so has seen a water refilling revolution: Reusable swingtop water bottles on every table, so diners can replenish their own glasses.

Bottles like this have been recently spied at Sitka and Spruce, Ba Bar, Local 360, RN74, and Golden Beetle. So has this revolution gone, it feels newsworthy when a restaurant doesn’t offer a bottle—as Harvest Vine recently did not.

Instead, a busser came around periodically with a pitcher. Trés 2010.

And yet…strangely appreciated, allowing several more touchpoints of human service than we’d have gotten otherwise. A moment to order another cocktail, perhaps, or ask a question about a dish.

So you tell us: In your opinion do water bottles on tables represent better or lesser service?