All the chairs in this restaurant are leather couches. The tables are low, like the kind you'd have in your family room at home. To top it all off, the booth we got during our visit was accompanied by a 50" TV that we could set to whatever channel we want. Pretty cool, right? Old School is a bar that looks designed to simulate an 80s/90s hangout spot. There are arcade games lining the walls, foosball tables, pool tables, and board games available upon request. It really did a good job of bringing out some childhood nostalgia. We ended up playing Jenga, Battle of the Sexes, and Yahtzee and had quite a good time. The food menu was your typical pub food - nothing too adventurous here. I ordered the Southern Style Chicken Fried Steak because I remember the picture on the online menu looked amazing. Others in my party had the poutine fries and the chicken and waffles. The bar menu was surprisingly not very deep... When we asked what beers they had, our waitresses' reply was "domestic and imported" (what?). The wait time for our food was quite long, but this was to be expected with a new restaurant (we were there in the 4th day of business). However, one thing that bothered me is that my food came nearly 20 minutes after the rest of my party got their food. This is way too big of a gap and led me to believe that my order was forgotten. In the meantime, I just tried a few of the poutine fries, which were actually quite good. Based on my friends' reactions, the chicken and waffles were pretty good as well. When my food finally came, my first thought was ... this looks nothing like the online menu! Where was the breading? Where was the gravy? I didn't think much of it then, and just ate. The fries were good, but the chicken just tasted mediocre... It definitely did not take much effort to make. Looking at their menu on their website afterwards, I realized that none of our dishes looked like the website pictures! So I decided to do a quick google search, and their chicken steak picture was actually from MyRecipes.com (http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/chicken-fried-steak-3)! Really Old School? I ordered that dish based on the picture on your website! If you've been to the restaurant, you'll notice that the pictures used on the website aren't of the actual restaurant either. I'm not sure why this was done? In the age of Instagram where a picture truly is worth a thousand words, why misrepresent your menu, much less your entire space? If the Contact page didn't specify the address, I would be certain this was a website for a different restaurant. I want Old School to do well because I like their concept of bringing childhood nostalgia to a restaurant. But from my visit there, I'm just very, very confused. read more

This is a great example of how not to run a business. The photographs on the website appear to be lies. I have uploaded photos to show how they are absolutely nothing like what is being offered. Here's some of the many issues I experienced with this restaurant, and why I won't be coming back. I really should have just stuck with a typical fast food chain for $10 - I would have had better tasting food. 1) The phone number listed on their official website doesn't work. It immediately goes to voicemail. The mailbox is not set up. It disconnects. You can't even leave a message. I tried from my cell phone and my work phone. 2) Nobody answers the email. I emailed them two weeks ago (email address found on their website) to let them know I was interested in placing an order, and nobody answered. Two weeks ago. I didn't get a reply. Checked my junk mail just in case, but no - no reply. 3) Some items on the menu don't exist. I didn't find this out until I walked into the store to actually place my order. An example - tried to order this awesome looking dog called the Chili Willy. Doesn't exist. 4) The food looks absolutely nothing like it does on their website. I ordered Trois Fromage Poutine and got french fries with shredded cheese and a little gravy on top. See attached photos. 5) Their Half Pound Cheeser was boring and the meat was a little tough and dry. It did have an interesting seasoning to it, but the whole experience was ruined by the dismally small amount of cheese on the burger and the previous lack of quality customer service that you would expect. Again - see attached photos. Vaguely reminds me of limp celery after three weeks in the fridge. I have never experienced ordering food and discovering it to be so drastically different / less than what was depicted in the Hollywood photos on the website. You'd almost think that you had stumbled accidentally across another website with the same name - until you confirm that no, it's the right website because the address is accurate. Two stars seems generous. I won't be coming back. read more

Old School Lounge - The "Half Pound Cheeser." Low quality and somewhat dry. They forgot most of the cheese. - Canadian (New) Near Me - Mississauga, Ontario

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Another bar that will not survive. With Chain restaurants like Boston Pizza within minutes of your location that accept SPC and don't auto-charge tip, it's going to be hard competition. Underwhelming beer selection, wait staff that don't know the menu well enough and dirty cutlery...needless to say my friends and I will not be returning. Would give this place a 0 out of 5 stars if that was an option. Steer clear, lots of better options in the area. read more

I worked as a bartender here for a month full-time In April of 2017. I did not receive ANY pay. To get them to hand me a cheque took a week and 3 days past the day I was told I would be paid. When I received my paycheck it was a few hundred dollars short, and I let the manager know and he said he would sort it out. The manager DID NOT SHOW UP to any shifts I was working to avoid me pulling teeth to get it. I decide to not go in till I got paid, in response they bounced my cheque that had already been a FEW HUNDRED DOLLARS SHORT. I harassed them till July of 2017 for any form of payment, with no end in sight. I had to file a unpaid wages claim with the labour board and almost 2 years later still nothing. I am owed OVER A THOUSAND DOLLARS in unpaid wages. Michael Vesia, the owner has had a director's order to pay against him and this company. The business is run completely off the books, and management is very shady. The owner would stop by and smoke cigars inside of the restaurant and let his "therapy dog" roam and run around the establishment. This is only a few things wrong with the business. In the same building there was a club called "Whitehaus" which was also owned and managed by them. They would repeatedly go against liquor laws, were infested with rats, ants, and I don't know what else. I would repeatedly have to go to the back room of the club find ANY kind of support staff to cook orders, do dishes, or help the one or two adequate wait staff who were the only ones working. In the back room the other employees, bouncers, management, the owner, their friends, and some patrons would be in the back room smoking weed, cigarettes, snorting cocaine, and partaking in many VERY ILLEGAL activities. The management is sexist, homophobic, racist and completely ill mannered. For the few times I would be harassed by a patron I would be mocked and told to learn how to flirt. I would inform them of the inappropriate and demeaning things that would be said to me by drunk or high individuals and be told "well he isn't wrong". Would make derogatory remarks about specific raced patrons. Shortly after I stopped going the same manager fired another bartender as soon as he found out she had and lived with her boyfriend. Every other employee I have spoken to upon leaving has told me they as well were never paid. The owner now owns "Mickey V's Gentleman's Club" I am positive they have only gotten worst. I have been told by many in town he will repeatedly open businesses and let them fail as it is all simply for money laundering. Do not go to or work for ANY corporation owned by him. You will not get paid, and you will not be respected, your food will be dirty, and the establishment will not be up to proper health and safety standards. read more

Such an amazing idea and theme. Only issues are the consoles are reserved by only two groups of people who don't even use them. The beer choices are very minimal. 2 out of 3 of the pinball machines dont work, the "galaga" arcade machine which is the only good one there doesn't take your quarters. And it's seriously understaffed. One girl working the bar, the bar area, and the lounge. With probably only one person in kitchen because it took almost 45 minutes to get our food. That being said the ONE worker was amazing, she was super helpful and friendly and probably deserves a raise. I really want this place to survive and hope they make the right decisions to fix it up. My chicken fried steak was very very dry, and although they gave me the wrong fries they gave me my right fries extra and free of charge so that was super nice. The chicken and waffles was okay but not the best. My follow up visit/review will be the make or break decider. Probably during one of the next UFC events... read more

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Truth be told. This place is a cool looking place to hang out and chill at. It is just so sad to see how this place is run. Service is the worst ever. You could have made so much money on drinks at my table. We had a table of 10. All of whom drinks like fishes. We even ubered there. We were there to watch the game and have a good time but they managed to screw that up too. We wanted another pitcher, went through two waitress telling us that they can't get it and would get someone else to... Are you freakin serious?!?!?! How hard is it to fill up a pitcher with beer???? They would leave us hanging go to the bar and hang out. Wow talk about being LAZY! If i was the owner of that place, everyone would be fired!!!! For real!! Dead serious!! Have had bad service before but this place went to another level of crap service!!! Horrible!! read more

The night started great. We had a party of 17. The venue is great, games, pool, darts, it's too bad there weren't more arcade games and the some of the ones they had were out of order. It would have been awesome if we could have actually used one of the monster TVs and a bunch of us play a group game like Mario Cart, Mario Party or something. This place has SO much potential. BUT... We were presented with an "event" menu because we were told that the kitchen wasn't prepped for the full menu with a party of our size. I don't understand, if the bar was full, and everyone was ordering off of the regular menu, how would this be different? Our waitress was amazing, super attentive, really polite, and apologizing ALL the time, because although most of us us ordered off of the 'event' menu, it still took 45 minutes to get nachos. The food is standard, the prices are good. The concept is great BUT there are some SERIOUS issues. 1) only our waitress seemed to be actually working, I went to the bar to get a drink and the bar tender SAW me, then continued chatting up a guy who was nursing a glass of water instead of coming over, my original waitress ended up seeing me and come over to help anyways (I also got a picture of this waitress just standing there in her cell phone instead of actually working! ) I went to the bar instead of waiting for our waitress because I felt bad for her, running food, cleaning up, getting and pouring her own drinks all by herself. she is truly wasted in this place and we even told her that she should go somewhere else where they'd appreciate her. When one of my friends tried to complain to the manager about how rediculous it is to wait an hour for a veggie sandwich, the guy she was talking to told her that there wasn't a manger on shift that night. After speaking with another member of the staff we were told that not only was 'Joey' the manager, he's also the owner. Are you kidding me? The guy point blank lied to my friend about not being a manager, probably because he didn't want to listen to someone complain, when my friend did say something to him, his first reaction was "who was your server." I stopped him right there, it had NOTHING to do with our server and everything to do with the kitchen staff, the meal came out pipping hot, she was on the ball, she even kept apologizing for how long it was taking. I'm sure if she could have made it for us, she would have, and done it properly! A Greek salad is more then lettuce and feta! I'm floored that this manager/not-manager would jump to place blame on someone who had absolutely no control over someone else's screw up. 2) Then there's the music, this place is NOT a Nightclub, it's a 'bar and grill' so, why use up precious space that you could put more games and seating for a dance floor? Why have an actual DJ playing current B.S. Top 40's crap music in a retro bar, and playing it so loud, I couldn't hear the person next to me talking. Our group was really enjoying playing a game, since this place is supposed to be a game hang out, and we had to immediately stop because the DJ made it impossible to play. 3) it was HOT last night, and instead of putting air conditioning on, they had all the doors and windows open for a cross breeze, which in theory would have been nice, except it let the bugs in and everyone stepping out for a smoke could have just stayed inside, because our table got all of their second hand smoke through the windows, as someone who is allergic to that and I didn't have my inhaler, it was HORRIBLE! Who does that? Why would you want your customers to experience FINALLY getting their food and instead of tasting burger, you're eating an ashtray? This place had the potential of making a lot of money last night, there were 3 large groups of birthday parties, one group left super early because the music was so loud, our group was completely gone by 11 and I'm sure the other group shortly after as half of them were gone before us, it's pretty pathetic to have this type of place cleared out before midnight. Such a great concept, it's too bad it has such lazy staff (except for one person who is completely under appreciated and was probably yelled at because of our one complaint that had NOTHING to do with her) and the owner who doesn't man up and do his job. On average, I'd say this place made $40/couple last night, and they could have racked in a ton, as all my friends are serious drinkers and we made plans for DDs, but because of everything mentioned above, they probably didn't make enough to run the place for the night. I really wanted to recommend people to this place and make it a regular hang out, instead I've posted a rant and warning, if you want to enjoy your night, go somewhere else. read more