Small place with one employee (the owner) operating it. Being it's barely furnished and empty looking it's wise this one employee brush up on their social skills in order to create an ambient customers remember and want to return to.
Like if someone engages you in conversation and they comment on the weather or a similarly inoffensive topic, and you shut them down cold, think how that impacts your business. I'm not coming back and good luck to all other conversation-initiators out there. At this rate who even gives a crap about the food.