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| - The Pickle Barrel at Promenade Mall has got to be the worst Pickle Barrel of the whole chain--it is almost an embarrassment to the brand. Don't get me wrong--I love Pickle Barrel. I swear by the Rose Reisman's warm chicken spinach salad, however, this location has left a sour taste in my mouth all of the times I have been there.
Where can one even begin. I will start with hygiene. It is dirty. Tables are not cleaned right away, and there's dirty dishes lying around everywhere. For the full two hours that I was sitting down, no one cleaned the tables beside us. And the restaurant was pretty much empty. Where are the bus boys? They were clearly there, but obviously, no one is working. The floor is dirty. There's garbage everywhere. How can I trust that the environment which my food is being prepared in is even clean?
Which brings me to my second point--horrible service, horrible management. The waiters are lazy, not to mention unprofessional. Two waiters had a full out five minute conversation IN FRONT of us--one waiter asking the other to not seat us in their section because he was simply too busy. What kind of service is this? Who trained these people? Since when do you get to PICK AND CHOOSE how many people you wait for, when they're IN YOUR SECTION? The restaurant was empty, yet this guy didn't want TWO extra people in his section. Despicable.
The food took 45 minutes to come. For God's sake--it was two salads. My napkin had hairs in it, and my chicken was cold. This was no warm chicken spinach salad.
Just please--save your money and your nerves and don't come to this location.
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