Last night my sister and I went for a late dinner at this local eatery. It was a little after 9 pm. The sign out front clearly stated" please seat yourself in the section ahead, carry out orders at the bar". No hostess was present at the moment to give silverware and menus. Upon sitting down, three waitresses walked by our empty table numerous times not acknowledging our presence. Mind you, there was a couple immediately behind us which, one of the party members had just sat down and his drink order was taken, a gentleman at a table in the middle of the section right next to us who was already happily full and a new table across from us who sat down at the seven minute mark of our 9 minute wait to at least be greeted. The new table top of four was immediately greeted, had silverware and able to place a drink order. It took the man sitting by himself to ask a waitress to acknowledge us. She finally came to our table and said " I don't know who your waitress is but, I'll get you some menus and take your orders then, I'll find your waitress. After 3 minutes the waitress who tended the four top after we were already seated came by to place our orders,etc. mind you, she walked past us several times to wait on the four top. For a minute there, I thought I was invisible. On to the food and drinks, shall we? My mango margarita came with no lime, ok, fine but, the waitress then asked if I wanted one and I said yes but, it never came. I ordered spinach and artichoke dip which was just over microwave warm and the center was cold. I did not send it back bc at this point, I'm looking at some "sug Avery" being stirred in or worse. My wings were fine and my sister enjoyed her wrap. It took forever to get our checks and for her to run our cards. We stayed longer than we should've and really had to. Here are a few pointers:
If an area is self serve, the tables should be preset.
Staff should be trained to acknowledge guests whether it is their intended table or not.
Seated guests should be greeted and drink and app orders taken with Lin 30 sec to 1 min.( 9 min and 37 sec is just unacceptable).
Be aware of your section. My waitress was standing around patting the top of her turban covered lace front when I came in,doing nothing .
Serve from the heart, not from the head. While nice , my server and her cohorts didn't give a shit about us for obvious reasons.
Dining out is about an experience and though the food and drinks were good, the experience overall was needless to say shitty. read more