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| - Last night was a huge disappointment. My boyfriend and I walked in and grabbed an open table in the bar area. The table still had several empty glasses and the server's tab on the table. No big deal, we assumed someone would be by to clean everything up momentarily so we could eat some food. After a couple minutes, the server stopped by and picked up the payment made by the last party and then took two empty wine glasses of our table. There were still several empty glasses on the table. We assumed that she would be back to pick up the rest of the glasses, provide us with menus, and start our drink orders. We never saw her again. In fact, she never even said anything to us during that one visit she made to our table. We shoved all the empty glasses to the edge of the table in an attempt to make it clear to staff that these were empty and were not our glasses. We were completely ignored. Becoming frustrated, I decided to start the timer on my phone to see how much longer it would take before anyone would even acknowledge us. During the next 5 minutes, we were completely invisible to everybody. Two bussing staff members repeatedly walked by and never stopped to remove the glasses, along with several servers (although not the one who was assigned that table), and we even noticed that what appeared to be a manager had walked by our table a few times without noticing that we had already been sitting at a dirty table for about 10 minutes. We gave up and left. I guess our business wasn't wanted. Why did this happen? Why were we ignored? Did the server assume that we were only sitting there while waiting for our name to be called to a table? If that's the case, she was very wrong. I've been a server, and making assumptions like that is not acceptable. We were there to eat dinner and ended up going elsewhere. And yes - we could have flagged down a staff member and told them that we needed help, but why should we have to do that? Why should we have to tell someone how to do their job? Very disappointing.
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