I received this scathing email from Bob J in response to my review of Coral Sushi. Clearly, he is friends w/Coral Sushi. I have cut/pasted in it's entirety. This alone will force me to NEVER, EVER return or provide positive word of mouth to friends.
First of all, I want to say, "you ought to be ashamed". Why do I say this? Well, I too am a dog lover and visited Coral for their dog days effort. I had a fantastic time and, like you, greatly appreciated how the owners at Coral went out of their way to do this for the dogs. With that said, although I was glad to see that you gave them kudos for this in your recent review, I was amazed by what else you had to say. I will not belabor the issue by arguing with each point. That would be silly. To each his own, but for you to take such a public shot at a local small business owner that invited you to their establishment for the purpose of helping the dogs, is honestly outrageous and completely classless. Don't get me wrong, i'm all for folks giving their opinion, but in this case, you would have been well advised to keep your, albeit, "fine-tuned tasting trap" shut. Do you really think that it was wise of you to mix your desire to give your opinion with an off-handed thanks in this case? I think any clear thinking person with any sort of class would know better. What is really interesting though, is I kept wondering after I read your review, how could it have been that bad? I have eaten at Coral over 100 times and have never had an experience like this, so I decided to do a little research. I decided to see what sort of reviews you had written in the past, especially about other Sushi establishments. Well, what do you know? You wrote a rave review for the closest competitor in the region, Sushi at the Lake. It turns out that you are a die hard fan of 6 years! Well, I am sure that Coral's arrival to the area has taken a bite out of their business in the last year. I also am relatively sure that you would be aware of that, being that you fancy yourself a local critic and you are likely close to the owners there. Well, at any rate, I do not have a beef with you being an avid supporter of your friends place. I love Coral Sushi, and I tell everyone I know. That is fine and acceptable behavior. What I do not do is go on Yelp and seek to threaten a small business owners livlihood, like the pp that own Sushi at the Lake, just because I like Coral more. That would be petty and rediculous on my part. In my opinion, this is what you have done and to make matters worse, what you have done is made far more embarassing by the fact that you were there because you were invited to help them to help the dogs. I don't know what else to say, but "Shame on you". BTW, I have been in Coral since you wrote your "Review" and one of the other patrons had seen what you wrote and was also very bothered by it. I can only hope that neither the owners of Coral nor the folks at Great Dane Friends have seen this. I am sure that they would be quite disappointed.