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| - The food? Delicious.
Eating greasy spoon breakfast on a patio? Superb.
The service? Blah.
Over Easy is just a shot away from my hotel and since the Intercontinental's room-service healthy breakfast is coated in sugar, I ventured out into the great unknown this morning.
The Complete Healthy Breakfast is terrific: a cup of hot oatmeal, fresh fruit (although I loathe anything from the melon family), scrambled egg whites and multi-grain toast.
My server, however, seemed to want to do everything in her power to suck my bright and cheery mood out of me.
She:
* was curt and unfriendly
* did not return to ask me how my meal was
* saw me sitting there, meal finished, and did not bring me my bill
* ignored the other server who called out to her (five feet away) to come handle my bill
As the other server was pushing my credit card through the machine, I said 'is she having a bad day,' hoping to hear she tripped and bruised her knee on the sidewalk, or stabbed herself in the eye with her curling iron this morning, or anything that would give me an excuse to feel sorry for her and leave a tip.
The other server said 'no, I don't think so. We're just really busy.'
Of course, that response always starts a twitch in my eye and I said 'really, there are four of you standing around chit-chatting and six tables.'
Other server says: 'oh, well, uh, maybe she has a headache.'
Another server standing around doing nothing tries to make up for it all with some more idle chit-chat ... 'oh, what a pretty necklace, is that Celtic?'
I left no tip.
I won't be back.
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