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| - Hate to say it, but this place is now off my "I'll always eat there" list here in Phoenix.
Like others have said, the food is what you expect from Paradise, decent food at a decent price. Parking kind of sucks, but I drive an easy to park car, so no major complaints.
What dropped four stars off of this review was the staff. Adjectives and descriptors such as: Lazy, rude, incompetent, poorly trained, totally unmotivated, unable to take basic orders, unable to listen, possibly deft, and less organized than a poo fight in the monkey cage at the PHX zoo, all come to mind when I think of this place.
We walk in the door, and we actually had to go back and do a double take of the hours of operation because after 10 minutes of standing at the counter, no one had even looked up to see if we wanted to order something. Instead, they made it their maximum effort to avoid any and all eye contact or attempt to take an order by busying themselves cleaning up.
Mind you, it was an hour before closing time...
The lady and I went in, and we were hungry after a day of scouring Phoenix for various household needs for her new place. She ordered a Crumbly Blue Cheese salad and a cup of the tomato bisque soup. The lady tries handing her a Fuji apple chicken salad, and tries to do so in quite a rush. We explain, politely, that she didn't order that salad. The counter girl then goes into a tizzy, telling her that is what she ordered. Mind you, this would have been possible if my special lady friend WASN'T A VEGETARIAN!!!
Prior to this dropping of the proverbial ball by the obvious MENSA member behind the counter I ordered a greek salad to go with my roast beef sammich.
Evidently being called on being less than on the ball with your menial McJob was more than this girl could handle. I got no salad, and she abruptly and rudely stomped off before I could get my order placed for the second time.
And at this point, I was over it.
We paid for our food, sat down and ate. Neither of us were happy with our food. It tasted like yesterday's leftovers, and it was obviously hastily prepared so that the staff could get back to their cleaning duties an hour before closing time.
I hope the manager reads this and contacts me. I am not holding my breath for this though, if your employees are any indication of your level of management, its clear that the entire place needs to shut down and restaff. I suspect waiting for anyone from Paradise to contact me about this is going to be a long wait for a bus that never gonna come.
Guess the Paradise machine was broke that day?
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