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Originally Posted by BrianL99
I had the weirdest restaurant experience I can remember, at Red Sauce last night.
A friend drove down from Lecanto, to see a singer he knew, who was singing at Red Sauce last night.
We were seated at a table, without a view of the "stage" area. Before ordering, we noticed the table next to us was empty and had been, for 30+ minutes. As that table had a view of the entertainment, we asked our server if we could move to that table. After checking the Reservation List, he came back and told us the table was available and moved us.
1/2 way through our meal (45 minutes after we had sat down), the "host" came over to us and insisted we move from the table, as it was "reserved". We were 1/2 way through our meals. He didn't even do the "moving", we did.
In what universe is that acceptable hospitality service in a restaurant?
As an aside to the incompetent management, my friend's steak dinner was OK, my Chicken Piccata tasted like a "Stouffer's Frozen Dinner", not fully microwaved. I sent it back once, but when they still couldn't manage to do any better, I gave up.
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Well, to tell the truth, I NEVER felt good about any restaurant experience. US people dine out more than even the French people. And the average waistline in the US is at the top end of the world list. I have gotten sick from mild food poisoning many more times from a restaurant than from eating at home. I have the opposite of a castiron stomach and I always wonder about the clowns preparing the food - do they have CV or something else and sneeze in the food? I never really enjoy a restaurant meal because it wastes a lot of time and costs too much. As far as an "experience" goes, I would rather use my money on the experience of going out to a movie or even a concert as compared to a
restaurant. If I am forced to go out to eat, I will choose Subway because I can see that they have gloves on and you can see them preparing the food. Also, the wait time is normally much less - the food always tastes good to me and I can season it however I want and I have never gotten sick there.
........I just wrote this to show that restaurants do NOT appeal universally to everyone. If it works well for someone else - more power to them. But, as proven by the subject of this thread.......restaurant-goers can not expect a great experience all the time. They will have to learn to accept the bad experience with the good ones.