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| - When reading the reviews (albeit all 9 of em), I figure'd we couldn't go wrong, especially after my father recommended we hustle over to eat'n park for breakfast in Eastlake near his machine shop.
I now know that this place is no less a chain than eat'n park and frankly, wish I would have listened to my father (a recurring theme throughout life eh?)
I walked in, they had two hostesses on duty, it appeared as they had one busser and a handful of servers. We sat after wandering their entrance area not seeing anyone, encountering the hostess on our way to a table, she seated us and provided menus. My dad and I just wanted a good omelette. Our server was nice, and enjoyed pouring our coffee from varying heights above the cup, and god bless her not a drop splashed onto my white shirt. The coffee wasn't nearly as respectable as their "fair trade organic" whatever seal of green approval stuff made me think. I ordered a mexican omelette and added sausage (they didn't have chorizo :-( not cool), my father had the same, less the meat. It comes with three pancakes, no browns (yeah, no potatoes and it still cost $9!) Long story short, it took nearly 30 minutes to get our food, when we did, we saw these three inch high round monstrosities of egg and filling and cheese. I didn't know where to start! I ate my pancakes. They were delicious. It was obvious to me that the cooks they had had no business cooking breakfasts. The omelettes aren't folded, and had obviously stuck to the pan as they were a crumbly, mangled mess of overcooked eggs and filling. They weren't bad tasting, but texture has a lot to do with a great omelette, and this place seemed to forget to read that chapter.
I finished my water and gave up on trying to drink the coffee, my father had emptied both of his beverages having only had a few bites of our meal. A tall man (who I suspect was the "manager") stopped by and said "Enjoy guys, everything looks good!" I chuckled in disbelief and sorrow as it obviously didn't look good, and the manager never really asked us what we thought, that's just a little bit of BS. Anyway, our drinks needed filled when he stopped by, and obviously he didn't even know what to look for at a table when checking on them, as he should have had that server out within seconds with refills, instead we had our breakfast lube-free only getting refills once we were finished.
We won't return, I'd much rather have had breakfast at the aforementioned Eat'n park, at least they have smiley faced cookies.
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