I recommend being extremely careful using Chili's table gadgets to pay the food bill, it was my birthday dinner last week, I had gotten a free birthday desert from Chili's on my cell phone and as a continual member I had free chips an salsa, the entire restaurant was full for dinner but in my section we noticed people were waiting overly long periods of times for anything to be brought out, it was terrible service to say the least, lots of people were asking what was taking so long they kept getting the same answer - the kitchen is backed up which probably meant the cooks were shorted help...hmmm wonder why.... After waiting very long times for our food (myself and two adults) I showed the waitress my free birthday promo on my cell phone, after waiting again a long time she comes back breathlessly asking to take my cell so the manager could verify my free desert promo was for real, it didn't come back, at that point I was really becoming concerned, then the manager pops up at our table all angry and growling to see my cell phone showing the birthday promo, I told him the waitress has it.....omg! Im so sorry and thoroughly embarrassed I chose this place it was a total nightmare. Later at the end no one was left in the place, it had cleared out we finally ordered two deserts not three because one guest had to leave he couldn't wait any longer you know people have to work the next day! It was like the last man standing kind of scenario, we couldn't even get coffee ordered up to have with desert, it was disgusting! On top of those many insults the table gadget didn't spit out the final receipt showing the tip and total, at that point we just wanted out of there.
However, I believe the angry growling manager added an additional $10 tip afterwards over a generous $10 tip which was not deserved for the bad service on a $61.79 bill, we couldn't even get coffee ordered! Good thing Chili's notified me the next morning that I had spent $81.79 which was wrong and off by $10! So back again the next day and I talked with the bar mgr because the dining mage wasn't there? I showed her the email indicating a $20 tip, she was sympathetic and gave me $30 in credit to be used at Chili's however, I will not be using this particular one ever again nor use any restaurants table gadgets to pay bills in the future because they can change totals without permission. read more