I am a regular customer at this place and on a normal day I would give this place 3 stars for: price of AYCE ($16+tax until closing), good meat selection, variety of banchan and the fact that i'ts never crowded. After a long day of errands, having a preggo appetite...I was seriously looking forward to getting my Korean BBQ fix. But LAST NIGHT (Aug 20), I was so disappointed. The moment we sat down, the server handed us the regular menu (weird where the hell is the AYCE MENU?!) I let her know we wanted to do AYCE and she said...IN EXACT WORDS: "we are NOT having AYCE today because there was a convention." And I replied "meaning...?" And she said "I will get some water."
Ok...let me get this straight, no AYCE because there was a convention so therefore the amount of traffic the restaurant received is not "normal" and could potentially rip off the business due to the amount of people who will be eating AYCE. Am I correct? OR...they simply didn't expect that amount of foot traffic and didn't have enough meat for AYCE. Either reason, they had made a BAD business decision. Consistency? That died along with it last night.
To make it more obviously embarrassing, the servers switched and I asked the new server if AYCE really isn't available and he said "yes but I think tomorrow we will have it." I replied and told him we would eat somewhere else and left with an empty stomach, hungry unborn baby and disappointed.