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| - After hearing rave reviews of J Peters, my wife and I decided to give this establishment a try. I'll give them credit for great location, nice surroundings and décor and a pleasant enough wait staff. The first issue came with a 1/3 full restaurant and we were seated right by the kitchen. I let that go and ordered a glass of wine for my wife and a beer for myself. That took almost ten minutes to get and we still had not had a chance to order a meal yet. To make things easy, we both ordered she crab soup ( which was excellent), a house salad for her and a chicken salad wrap for myself. I got MY soup in about 10 minutes an nothing else made an appearance for 35 minutes. I asked about the status of our order and was told that the kitchen was backed up. I mentioned that it was all cold pre-prepared food and that none of it should take this long. By now we noticed people arrive, order, get served and leave, with us still waiting for a salad, a cold wrap and one soup. I asked to speak to the manager who took her own sweet time coming to our table and miracle of miracles, our food arrived. My wife's salad showed up minus the soup and my wrap came sans french fries. They haven't finished in the fryer yet I'm told. My wife's soup finally finds it's way to the table it's the wrong soup. The manager finally shows up and I explain my frustration only to hear the kitchen is backed up. Backed up? It's mid afternoon on a Saturday with a restaurant that's less than half full and they can't keep up? We were offered a free desert for our inconvenience but by then I was on my soap box. I explained that I wasn't interested in any kind of comp, but she needed to understand that she was in charge of all of this mess and was failing miserably. Reading earlier reviews, this seems to be a recurring issue with J Peters. Obviously someone has spent a big chunk of change to bring a great dining experience to little old Mt. Holly. They need to address this kitchen issue soon or they'll find their clientele start finding other establishments to spend their dining dollars, like me. Bottom line, food - very good, atmosphere - pleasant, wait staff - adequate, kitchen staff and management - fail.
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