Did you ever hear the expression..."gone to hell in a hand basket" ?
Thats my description of The Maple Tree on a recent visit...for breakfast of course! For whatever reason, we'd failed to return to The Maple for a couple of years...it's a quite a drive from Downtown, where I always stay and well, you know, you're in the casino and right there is the buffet...
First of - THIS IS IMPORTANT...The Maple Tree no longer has MAPLE FREEKIN SYRUP...and it's right there on the menu..."we serve real WARM Maple syrup..." Uh uh...sorry...I know MAPLE and I know WARM...this is SYSCO and it's COLD.
Secondly, I arrived at 7AM...they were open...but the only people there were a cook and the owner. The place was in an absolute shambles. The already cheesy indoor-outdoor carpet had been ground into a BLACK GREASY FOOD ENCRUSTED DIRT...the chairs, were a flesh color vinyl but the backs (where you'd grab one to pull it away from the table...was BLACK with filth!
As I looked around, I noticed cobwebs on the lighting...the ceiling fans were "fuzzy" with at least a 1/2" dust buildup on the windward side...Errrrr matey...your galley ha been scuttled :O(
When I identified myself to the owner as a Yelper! he rolled his eyes back in his head and said ..."Oh, we're making changes around here".
The meal no longer mattered to me...I wanted to leave...but stayed and paid $10 for a ho-hum meal.