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| - Blue Ox Tavern is a Minnesota Vikings and Minnesota Twins bar located on Eastern Avenue across the street from the McCarren Center Walmart Supercenter. At the entrance where guests transition from the outside into the dimly lit environment of the tavern, they are greeted by Minnesota Twins memorbelia. Throughout the pub there are pictures of Minnesota Twins and Vikings memorbelia. The Minnesota Twins and Vikings are displayed on the TVs throughout baseball and football seasons. Where the Minnesota Twins and Vikings are professional teams that play to win, the Blue Ox Tavern staff is a lousy unprofessional business team that plays to loose.
I work close to Blue Ox Tavern. So between work and errands, I stopped there for lunch. This visit was around 2:30 PM on a Monday afternoon. And this was my second time. When I walked in nobody greeted me. There is a want for a "Please seat yourself" sign. After sitting down for a few minutes Pamela, the bartender became Pamela the waitress. I ordered a Coke. This time it wasn't borderline flat. After a few minutes, Pamela returns from the sporadically patronized bar to take my order. My mind was set on the BLT.
Pricing and selection trails behind competitive taverns including the Village Pub. When I looked at the menu, daily dinner specials and lunch specials were nonexistent. The value for the money trails behind commendable nearby restaurants including the Village Pub and Miller's Ale House. Here are a few examples of paying too much for average food in a mediocre setting. The onion rings were around $6, a Philly cheese steak was around $15, and Fish and Chips were $10.99. Most strikingly dessert is missing from the four page menu. Furthermore, their dinners are missing the included salad or soup that competitors such as Village Tavern include. Below this review, the picture tour includes all four pages of the menu.
When I ordered the BLT, I showed my Waitress Pamela on my phone, their very own Yelp check-in offer that takes $1 off the bill. Pamela representing Blue Ox Tavern did not accept their own Yelp check-in offer. She says, "No, No, No, No, we do not accept the Yelp check-in offer. The Sahara location accepts it." She takes my phone and looks at the screen claiming that the Sahara location accepts it." Humm! I showed her that the north to south road on the screen that said Eastern Avenue with a Yelp dot for this location touching my phone's GPS dot under the Yelp check-in special was not Sahara Avenue. She is still claiming it is for the Sahara location. Pamela also said that she'd mention this to her boss and that they were taking the Yelp check-in special off. This bad business practice is not an isolated incident. In a previous review 21 days ago, Beki. C also mentioned this. So, if this was a Vikings game, Pamela caused her team to have a fumble. To support the fact that they did not follow the Yelp check-in $1 off special, following this review I posted a picture of the Yelp check-in offer and my bill. Additionally, I did not appreciate that Pamela was attentive to the regulars in back of me and practically ignored me and failing to ask if I wanted a Coke refill.
The BLT was a solid sandwich. Realistically with the sundry of restaurants serving BLTs in the Las Vegas metropolitan area it was average. I requested a lot of mayonnaise on the sandwich. They placed a little bit on it. It was good. The last visit they placed a lot of mayonnaise on it and the sandwich was tasty enough to lead me back here. The fries were nothing special tasting just as good as a bag of frozen fries that Walmart sells across the street. If only there was ketchup on the table, it might of made a slight difference.
After paying the $10.06 plus tip, I walked around. At the right of the Tavern there is an area where you can hang out and play pool. If you leave this area to the left of the large picture of the blue ox, you are back in the center of the Tavern at the bar. Here they have gaming machines. On account of the fact that they need Caveman Keno with digital Keno machines, I have passed over gambling here. Now aware of their questionable business practice I regard gaming here with throwing my money in the garbage.
Blue Ox Tavern did not have the integrity to follow their own policy that is the customer gets a $1 off their bill with a Yelp check-in. However, I have integrity and follow my own policies. One of my policies is that when a business does not abide by a Yelp check-in special, I deduct a star. That is being nice because several Yelpers will righteously give the business 1 star. Concurrent to my policy I will suspend the business for at least six months and spread the word. In conclusion, Blue Ox Tavern is a convenient tavern to my work and errands that serves a decent BLT in a Minnesota Vikings and Twins tavern without a smile and integrity. The Minnesota Vikings and Twins deserve a better bar.
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