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| - This was my first time eating at a Carrabba's and it's not that I had high hopes, but this restaurant was horrendous and completely killed my desire to ever eat at a Carrabba's again. It was one of the most uncomfortable situations I have ever experienced at a restaurant.
Happy hour was going on and me and my boyfriend were eyeing some blackberry lemonade, seems innocent right? I ordered one, thinking it was just lemonade with blackberry syrup in it. The waiter never asked for my ID nor mentioned anything of this blackberry lemonade being alcoholic. I received the drink and noticed it was in a fancy glass, not one that I could hurriedly drink due to being parched. My boyfriend then asked a waiter passing by if the drink was alcoholic and she had no idea. A couple of minutes pass, and then BAM!
The bartender comes out of nowhere demanding to see my ID to see if I was older than 21, which luckily I was, but who knows what would have happened if I wasn't. She then walks off as if it's okay to bombard a table for something that they had no idea about nor did anything wrong.
Our waiter then shows up out of nowhere, just says my mistake, doesn't offer me anything else to drink or even if I want to keep the alcoholic drink. I refused to drink it and got an ice tea instead. And for the rest of my meal I was treated like an outcast. My server refused to look me in the eye and no longer directed questions towards me or cared to see if I was doing okay.
ONE OF THE MOST UNCOMFORTABLE AND AWKWARD SITUATIONS I HAVE EVER HAD AT A RESTAURANT.
It was like I was in time out until I left the restaurant and that I was the criminal. I am NEVER going back to Carrabba's, and besides, Olive Garden's food is way better than the tasteless crap they serve here. Needless to say we still left 20% because I use to work as a server, but I did not leave a tip based on service or performance it was out of sheer generosity.
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