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| - I used to really like coming to this restaurant. Traditional diner type restaurant with something on the menu for everyone's tastes. From chicken fingers, sandwiches to a meat and vegetable plate. All ages, lots of families, as well as a mixture of the after church crowd. Casual environment.
It has changed owners recently and unfortunately not too much good has come from the change. The wait staff doesn't last long here. Even though I knew this before coming, my mother really wanted to come here for their lasagna today.
It's a rainy day, 11:30am on a Sunday and they are semi busy at the time of our visit. Even though they aren't at max capacity, it did take our waitress Melanie about 7-10 minutes to come over to take our drink order or acknowledge us. We placed our drink order and even though we were ready to order our meal, she turned on her heel and started chatting it up with the table next to us. It turns out my friend Melanie is a chatty Kathy and just likes to catch up with some tables more than others.
The owner walks around talking to customers and our waitress was flustered that the owner was speaking to the table next to me because she wanted to take their drink order. She expressed this to me, after I got her attention to bring my mother Parmesan cheese.
Our food was super slow coming out. For comparison's sake, there was a couple that was sat 10 seconds before my party of two and they were done with their meal before ours came out. I had to track my friend Melanie down for some crackers, drinks weren't refilled and I ran out of coffee. Never came back to check on us during our meal.
It wasn't a completely bad or terrible visit. The positive to it was that the Food was solid. My eggs ordered over easy, bacon and toast were good although they were a tad on the not
warm side. Although in my opinion, it is hard to mess up breakfast food.
Mom reported that lasagna was delish. Lasagna is made with ground beef and served with garlic bread. Good deal for the price of $8.95.
Going into it - If you know there's a good chance that you're going to get mediocre service - you will be ok.
For me though, I think bad service left a bad taste in my mouth. It will be a long while before I decide to give this place another chance.
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