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| - Met up with a few co-workers here on St. Patty's day, expected bar to be much busier on such a well known drinking day. We were pleasantly surprised when we came in that it wasn't super busy, our group was at the shuffleboard and a couple people playing pool and a few more randomly scattered around the bar. After taking at least 10 min to order/get first drink, we now know why the place was less than busy. Bartenders were too busy to even come take my order at the bar, STRIKE 1. After meeting with our group and throwing a cpl shots down the shuffle board we decided that we wanted to order dinner. After tracking down our own menu, because the bartenders were again to engaged in their own conversation to assist us by providing a menu, I was finally able to track one down to ask tonmorder our food and beg for another drink as mine had gone dry. Due to our belief that a drink in a bar that is barely busy should NEVER go dry, STRIKE 2. Our food came quite quickly the Mr ordered their corned beef plate and he really enjoyed it portions were a great size especially for the special price of $5.99. I had club sandwich with garlic fries and was equally impressed, the sandwich while not hard to make some places really lack in caring how it's put together. The fries were the favorite by all of us, in fact if we were to have stayed later we would have ordered more to go with the munchies and green beer!
Finally the last of the bartenders working when we entered, was closing out tabs as she was leaving for the night. We all handed in our form of payment and ordered last drinks, it took over an hour to get bills paid, drinks on table. Two days later our payment had cleared our bank account, and there were two more charges 'pending' from the Juke Joint. This finally resolved it's self, but my assumption is one to many shots when trying to close tabs not good for business.
Bottom line, the bartenders are more interested in their lives or own stories than serving customers. Calling a customer sweetie or hon only goes so far, when the situation continues to occur. Pro's are the food was great, and since it's not busy the pool table and shuffle board have less competition. The juke box was good, we all enjoyed the variety and had a good time playing some 90's music that you don't hear much anymore. It's possible at some point we'd give it another try when that group is looking for a centralized location to hang out; but really my house is only a few more miles away...and service is much better.
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