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| - This is exactly like a Lone Star - blaring country music, peanut shells all over the floor, odd mix of middle age folks. Moderate prices - I got 1/2 lb of chicken and 2 sides for $10 while my partner got grilled salmon and 2 sides for about the same. Maybe the service was bad because we happened to get in right before hundreds of people poured in to eat after grad ceremonies, but our waitress gave us our bill before we had even bitten into our food, never asked about dessert, and pushed a To-Go cup when my partner asked for a refill. We had only been there 20 minutes when the To-Go thing was pushed, and the waitress came back to our table and the one next to us every - and I mean every - 3 minutes of the entire fiasco. Plus they have this chanting-shouting thing there... Perhaps a coordinated dance? All we knew was that 4 times in the first 15 minutes we were there, the staff began pounding, clapping and chanting (really, shouting).
The food was not bad, but it certainly was not good enough to overcome the noise and stalkerish, rushed service. I'm more inclined to say that this was not just a one time bad-service day because the place was full of teeny bopper waitresses with braces who never took away a dirty plate. More like never-had-waitressing-101. BUT it was far enough from campus that I felt like I was really out with the community instead of UIUC students.
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