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| - Tonight was my first night in the Tempe Improv in a VERY long time. I was actually kind of happy when they closed because I thought it was for good. I gave them a chance tonight with the remodel and the retooling of the menu. I went and saw Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes (Jay and Silent Bob) tonight as a birthday present from a friend. When I walked into the main room and saw how the tables and chairs were set up, I thought they actually just wanted people to come out and eat dinner with some guy in the background telling stories. It is not set up to have everyone look at the stage. The seats that they tried to put us in would have been just uncomfortable and irritating, since I would have sat between 2 larger people. Now I am not knocking them for their size....I am a big guy too....but we would have had to be more than "friends" at the end of the evening. The seats they moved us to where spaced out a little better, but with that spacing, I lost view of the stage because of where the "railing" ends. The server showed his face once to take a drink order, dropped it off, and dispeared like the worlds worst magic act. He shows up again to take our food item. I ordered a $9 chicken and Rice burrito that was fighting like hell to be medicore at best and what they refered to as $9 Potato Skin Nachos (again...I'm a large guy). I had two more cokes after that and water. The Nachos were just Half Way deep fried Potato chips with canned Velvetta cheese, a ketchup packet sized squirt of Sour Cream, 1 strip of bacon cut up to where it was just dust, some green onions, and 4 pieces of a tomato. Just bland and awful. Our server changed into a cute girl who was WAY on top of her game. She was back and forth with water when we didn't even ask for any, she offered us the shots special (2 shots of Fireball for $10....F*U*), she was great.
I get my check and see it that it is $34...$18 for the food and $5.75 for every glass of Coke I ordered. The Coke came in your standard Pint Glass mind you. That is movie theatre prices attached to a Vending Machine. Then they have the balls to automatically tack on a 15% gratuity to every bill. That should be criminal.
When did the "tip" become automatic? I was a server....I was awful at it...and I made garbage money. Even though I was living off of that tip money, I wouldn't expect someone to automatically leave me the money. You want a bigger tip...be better at your job.
I made sure that she was tipped the proper 20% because she earned it and was great. I hope she works somewhere else soon before that place crushes her.
The sound system for the show was very bass heavy and difficult to hear the stories. Some of the staff would hang out by the door that the performers would take that leads them to and from the stage, but I found them standing in front of me more and blocking the show. My last complaint, which I don't think is there fault, but should be noted. Their parking lot is garbage. Find a parking structure and get one of the bicycle dudes to bring you over, or cab it.
If there is a REALLY Big name coming to the Improv. By all means go, just know that it will be about $50-60 a person for a night that you will remember....in a bad way.
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