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Things that real sports does well are quick (and I mean quick), efficient service, and the biggest flat screen TV I have ever seen.
Personally, I have a bit of a problem with the level of efficiency that they have achieved at Real Sports. I think that when it was all said in done that I know who our server was. As far as I can tell our table (and all other tables) are handled by a group of what seemed to be at least 10 people. Now I kind of know what a car must feel like going through the production line. One person took our order, another person brought us beer, another person brought our appetizer (really salty calamari), two other people brought our main dishes, another person brought our bill, and another person dealt with the mistake on our bill.
There are two issues here.
1) There was a mistake on our bill, and yes they did fix the mistake, but they made me feel like a real ass and did not apologize for the mistake. So while the service is good in the sense that you get what you ordered and it comes quickly. No one is really responsible for your table. No one really cares. We might as well have been served by fem-bots (yeah, I just made and Austin Powers reference).
2) Despite the efficient service, the food was ok at best. Now I don't expect great culinary output from any sports bar, but when you pay 15 dollars for a burger and fries, it shouldn't be a little bit dry and a appear to be a PC brand frozen burger (It wasn't even the thick and juice Angus burger!). Also the $11 calamari was in my opinion overly salty, even for something that has been deep fried. Finally, the portions for just about everything were small.
So to concluded my rant. I will probably end up going back to Real Sports just because so many people seem to think that it is the bees knees and others in my group of friends will make plans to go there. But I will not be planning anything there in the future. Despite all that it does well, it just isn't worth it in my opinion. It has NO SOUL! I guess I shouldn't really expect any differently from MLS.
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