TLDR don't go to Mad Noodles if you don't have time or you're too antisocial to entertain the waitstaff. They'll treat you like garbage and talk crap to other patrons while you're sitting right there.
Went in Sunday night with my boyfriend. I am getting over a cold and wanted soup, and we also looked at houses all day and wanted to talk about one we were considering buying. When we walked in, the bartender/waitress/only person in the front of house said we could sit anywhere, then my boyfriend saw some menus on a table and tried to take one. She told us that there were already menus at every table. It was our bad, so we just picked a table. She brought us some water, then didn't come back for another 5-7 minutes (I wasn't timing her, we were talking, but it did get to the point where I was looking around to see where she had gone).
She came back and took our drink order, and kept correcting us on little things we misspoke on, including my boyfriend saying, "Soup dumplings," then her saying, "pork?" and him saying yes to pork, then her saying, "Not pork and crab," then me being like, no pork, then her being like, "It's good to specify that." We misspoke, and she corrected us in an overly bossy tone. I'm using bossy to be nice, but it made me feel sassy, so I ordered in a bossy tone to match.
We sat back and kept talking about houses. During the time that we sat there, she came back to ask us if we had ordered an appetizer and say that, "Your drinks are almost done," in the next fifteen minutes. She walked past our table while we were looking at the seller's disclosure for a house and underhandedly said, "We're real interactive tonight," to no one. Then, as the other table was leaving she said, "Thank you so much, some people can be so rude, especially tonight."
At that point we were both pissed, hungry, and certain that she was talking about us, which is not professional or ok. When she came back a SECOND time 20 minutes later to ask us what we had ordered, my boyfriend lost it and told her we were leaving. She asked why, and he exploded (it was horrible but I don't regret it, she was terrible at her job). She walked us out, nodding and disagreeing with us on every point we brought up. Personally I think if she wants to play the cold jerk waitress card she should go back to bartending at some seedy southside bar.
The other people probably felt bad for her and gave her a nice tip it was so explosive. Apparently we walked in with an attitude, but all we walked in to do was eat soup and talk about a house.