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My husband and I were visiting Charlotte for the weekend, and decided to check out a cute local spot for breakfast on our way out of town. The "local" ingredients drew us in, because that usually means they have some interesting, flavorful combinations on the menu. We sat outside which was nice.
I ordered the Farmer's Market Frittata, hubs ordered some sort of omelet. Granted, these aren't the craziest things to order, but I could have made them better myself at home. SO BLAND. My fritatta looked and tasted just like his omelet. That's laziness, people. Way to slap on different names for the same thing!
Not only was the food comical, but I literally saw our server ONCE - when she brought my husband's orange juice and stayed to take our order. No personality either, that one. Three different people took care of us, one to refill our waters, one to bring our food, and one to take our plates. NONE OF WHICH was our server. No one came to check on us during our meal. We finally asked someone to tell our server we wanted our check. After a so-so meal, and being ignored we were ready to go. Literally 7 minutes later, my husband was ready to walk out without paying. We ended up walking to the door and waiting there to find our server so we could pay the bill. Some girl came up and asked if she could help us and who our server was. I said "I don't know who she is, I haven't seen her the whole meal."
It's not like this is a large restaurant. I could understand if she had many tables and expressed regret at not being able to take care of us adequately, but she finally showed up and was yakkin it up with the other servers by the service station before she even realized that she MOST LIKELY forgot about us.
Big ups to the busser (?) lady who actually smiled at us and acted like she was happy we were dining at this establishment, and who was doing more work than our server who we were expected to TIP?? No way, Jose. We tip for service, not because it's required. I've been in F&B for 5 years and am now a manager of a high-volume restaurant in Charleston, and I've only skimped a server twice in my life. This is the 2nd time. I wish I had a $20 to give to the busser who was actually working for her money.
Snooty people and crappy food. We should have gone to Ri Ra.
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