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| - The second time I went back to this restaurant was peculiar. The waitress started out clingy and constantly complimenting my friend, then she became very pushy about wanting us to leave. She brought our check with 2 fortune cookies on top, came back 2 minutes later, then tossed the cookies onto the table and wiggled the check at us. I was willing to write off this occasion since my first was so good.
I went back for a 3rd try and actually had to walk out because the service was so bad.
Our group of 4 came in and said that we needed a table for 4. The hostess showed us to a table with only 3 seats at it, then looked confused when we pointed out that we needed another chair. She then showed us to another table with 3 seats, then started to walk away. When we got her attention to point out that 3 seats are never adequate for 4 people regardless which side of the room it is on, she told us to go "wait in line" again.
Technically there was no line, but we went back up to the front to wait for a 4th chair at either table. While we were waiting for them to get their sh!t together, I noticed that the hostess was grabbing chairs from all over the restaurant and putting it at a table that did not have all of their dining partners. I'm no restaurant owner, but it seems to me that it would be more important to seat people WHO ARE ACTUALLY THERE! My blood was starting to boil, but we were seated and I was willing to forgive.
We had our menus and we were ready to order, but we waited and waited. I think it was 15 minutes before the waitress (the weird clingy one from my second trip) came to our table, we had no drinks, no nothing. We realized how much time we were wasting and discussed getting our food to go before the waitress finally appeared at our table. When we mentioned getting our food to go, she gave us THE NASTIEST LOOK then told us that we would have to go tell the hostess what we wanted.
I lost it. I told the waitress that everything that we had experienced thus far was completely unacceptable and I wouldn't tolerate it. I stood up to leave and she stood where she was (in my way), ignored me, and tried to take my dining companion's orders. She finally backed off without even a glimmer of apology after my companion's realized that I really was leaving.
I will not go back here ever again, no food is worth this treatment.
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