SHRIMP COCKTAIL ONLY
What I can't get over, what stuns me, is the situation with the water. I asked for water with my two shrimp cocktails. The attendant said, "I'll give you a cup of ice and you can get your water..." I'm not sure what she said.
I found a bus person and asked where the water was. Without looking at me, maintaining an overly subservient demeanor, she gestured toward the public drinking fountain attached to the wall. They expect you to fill your styrofoam cup of ice from the public drinking fountain.
I find this shocking. I'm pretty sure I'll never step foot in the Golden Gate again. I liked to stop in once in a great while for a shrimp cocktail. Sort of a Vegasey thing to do. The little cafe where they serve the cocktails has a pleasant atmosphere. The cocktail is not special, just frozen shrimp drenched in cocktail sauce. They do serve it in a glass as opposed to the plastic cup you'll find elsewhere. It's a good-sized cocktail compared to other places. The servers behind the counter are friendly. (I put $1 in their tip jar incidentally. They work HARD. I would last maybe 30 minutes.)
This water thing is insulting though. You can get the $1.99 cocktail for 99 cents if you join the player's club. I would have joined if I had any intention of ever going back.
To me it's an indication that the whole Vegas service ethic is disappearing. To have a bus person not even look at me, that was a new experience. I'm a man of the people. I have more in common with bus persons than I do with bosses and VIPs that I've met over the years who probably have made derogatory comments about me behind my back.
The water issue proves that Golden Gate has no pride. An eatery with any sense of pride would give customers an acceptable water source other than the public drinking fountain where guys spit, people put out cigarettes, and so on. If you would shine one of those special germ-revealing lights on it, you would see a horror show of disgusting life forms wriggling all over it. Is there a code violation here?