I visited my home town and we went out to Trifon's. I had never been there while I lived here. My sister and niece raved about it. I have no idea why?
We sat down, then waited several minutes for any service. There were two tables occupied, one if which had no drinks yet.
We ordered our drinks, and my sister repeated them before our waitress left our table: 2 diet cokes, no ice; I coke with little ice; and my Sprite. I should have wondered about that right then...
We got three cola drinks, all with lots of ice; and my sprite in a 5 ounce kiddie cup? The three incorrect drinks were returned to be corrected. I was finished my kiddie sized drink when she returned - no refill was offered!
Then - ordering! I wanted a meat lover's pizza and they had 10"; 13"; 15" and 18". So I asked for a 13" meat lovers. My sister and nephew wanted a 15" Hawaiian. The waitress 'corrected" them and said that was a "large Hawaiian"? The waitress pointed out they could get an extra entree cheaper with that, so they ordered the dry ribs.
My niece ordered the Buffalo chicken, which only came in one size. ?Luckily?
The waitress (who my sister and niece insist has worked there for quite a while) came back and told me they 'do not serve 13" meat lovers' pizzas'. I told her it was on the menu. She had to check that out, and came back and stated that the computer had the MEDIUM meat lovers' pizza, not the 13" pizza!!
I had to ASK for a refill for my 5 ounce sprite at this point! She looked at my drink cup and (I think?) realized then that it was not for my 14 year old nephew? She returned with a regular sized drink, stating that they previously 'had no clean cups that size before' (I hate excuses, but I hate blatant lies more.)
I was getting totally unimpressed with this place.
Especially with the FLIES buzzing around.
My sister could tell and told me that normally the service was much better.
The waitress picked that moment to bring out TWO of our three pizzas. (Notice that I have not mentioned the dry rib entree being delivered - it wasn't!)
Five or eight minutes later the Buffalo chicken pizza was delivered!
Now for the quality of the pizzas: my "meat lover's pizza" had pineapples in it? Okay, I'm not allergic, and will eat them, but I was not expecting that!
My nieces' Buffalo chicken pizza was quite literally sopping wet -she took all of the napkins from our table and laid them under the slices; then asked for even more napkins! She described it as a "pizza soup"! She actually was so unimpressed that she asked for it to be replaced, despite the fact that the rest of us were nearly half done. The waitress said that the chef told her they are supposed to be like that?
As for the Hawaiian pizza, my growing, constantly starving,14 year old nephew did not finish the shared pizza! He asked if we could take it home. My niece wanted to take hers home as well, so I had the rest of mine boxed up as well. At this point my sister asked to cancel the long overdue, never delivered, unexplainably missing dry ribs entree!
I have lived off of my tips and have been considered extremely generous with my tipping. (50% is my norm) This $90 bill got absolutely nothing as a tip. read more