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| - I have been to this Denny's twice. Once today, and once last Sunday. What a difference a week makes.
Both times I went on Sunday morning. Last week the place was "busy" and I sat the bar since I was by myself and prefer to watch something on the TV, sports or CP24. They had a manager behind the counter who was in charge of training, and it was obvious because she knew what she was doing and her name tag stated it as well. So my experience was alright, not amazing but alright.Enough to make me come back.
Well one week later (today), I went back. Same time in the morning and it wasn't that busy at all. Once again I sat at the bar. There are 2 televisions, one at either end. The one closer to me, had nothing on the screen, it may as well been turned off since there was nothing on it, the other tv was showing some random soccer game from somewhere in the middle east. So as I sat there at the bar with my menu, I wasn't greeted by anyone. Wasn't even acknowledged. Not even a minute later, as I'm staring at the menu a manager approached me with a bowl of food that clearly I did not order and then tried to pass it off to someone else before getting to the other end of the bar and asking a server where it should go. That was the only contact I had with anyone besides the person who sat me.
As I sat there with my menu closed in front me of waiting to be served or even spoken to, I had the pleasure of listening to a group of servers staring at a binder complaining about their sections. So they called over Joe, who was the manager behind the counter and then began giving Joe a hard time about their sections, tables or lack there of. Joe did his best to "look at it", all this going on while I continued to pat my hands on the bar, make eye contact with someone who worked there and at least try to get some service.
None of that worked and since no one seemed to know I was there, I stood up, grabbed my jacket and walked out. As I walked by the host stand where about 4 servers were standing around, I could hear them giggling to themselves because like me, they also knew this place was a joke and so is their service.
Better luck next time Joe, oh wait forget it, I wont go back. I went to Milestones instead where I was given great service and able to watch relevant things on their tv's at the bar.
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