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| - Talk about a fondon't! I'm sorry, I couldn't help myself. It was there for the taking.
I recently was pretty out of it while browsing Groupon and saw they had a deal for The Melting Pot. I've never been, but figured it might be something fun to try for a date night some time. I was wrong.
I've never actually been out to eat somewhere and had everything go completely right, but still leave feeling totally and completely dissatisfied.
I cannot believe the racket that they have going on here. On one level, it's kind of brilliant. Charge people completely ridiculous prices and throw them some "bread" which is actually a crouton in disguise, bagged veggies, a couple of grapes, some tiny apples, and few meat cubes along with a pot of boiling broth or cheese, and then serve them 6 different sauces out of thimbles. I wish I'd thought of it myself!
Also, they charged us for REFILLS ON SODA! Even McDonald's will give you free refills.
Had we not had a Groupon, our meal before tip would have been around $90. I could have used that $90 to buy 12 burritos from Chipotle, 11 slices of cheesecake from The Cheesecake Factory, 9 movie tickets, or yanno, an entire week of groceries for my husband and I which we also would have had to cook ourselves.
Perhaps the weirdest part of our entire experience was that there was a magician going from table to table preforming tricks. I don't know about you, but I don't think a $30-40 per person meal really pairs well with something that Red Robin has the market on.
We actually left hungrier than we were when we arrived, but our wallet was significantly lighter.
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