Fail at Trying

[Kheldarson]

Yay for inventory at my store! And thank God I don't work tomorrow. Gonna sleep off this long shift.

That's why I'm up late tonight, and why it took so long to get this up.

This morning (yesterday morning, whatever), Kabe, myself, and my Maid of Honor met up to talk wedding stuff. Since we were meeting after church decide to have brunch at the local IHOP. Which is normally pretty decent, but today....we had issues.

Not Trying Hard Enough

Our waitress didn't come out for 10 minutes to get our drinks. Well enough, I guess, but it wasn't that busy. Only about half the restaurant was full. Getting refills...that didn't even really happen. She took our order, and came out once to tell us that it was cooking and would be out in a few more minutes. We were talking so again, not concerned, but it was a bit of a wait. However, when the food got out, my MoH had gotten french fries instead of onion rings. We were then told that they were "out of onion rings" so she had decided to give her french fries instead. Didn't come out to tell us this, didn't give her an option, just gave her french fries.

And I had blueberry sauce in my butter. It looked like the butter had molded. I'm still not sure how that happened. She fixed my plate, but didn't offer to get MoH anything else, so MoH said it would be fine.

We didn't see her again until she brought the check out...which we had planned on splitting. She brought one check, asked if everything was fine, and disappeared before we could actually answer.

Any surprise that we only gave a dollar tip each?


Trying Way Too Hard

Second issue happened on the way out. We go up to pay, and when asked how everything was, we say, "It was...okay." As in, it was meh. So the guy at the register, an older gentleman with insanely long and thick nails, asks what happened and we explain. He didn't offer any compensation or fixes, just said we could fill in the survey and tell what happened. He did, however, split our checks. My MoH takes care of hers, then I get mine.

As if fill in the tip and sign, he says, "That's a lovely dress."

"Thank you."

"It really accentuates your figure."

"...Thanks." I stand up at this point.

"And your posture really accentuates your tallness. It's very lovely."

"....um...there's lots of tall women in my family. Thank you." Flee! The three of us started laughing as soon as we got out.



We're betting the waitress was on something, but I have no idea what was going on with the guy!

[Midnight_Angel]

Any surprise that we only gave a dollar tip each?

Yes. Frankly, I'd have gone down to 2 cents after experiencing what you got.

[Mystic]

I live by the axiom that tips are earned. I would have left that waitress nothing.

[TowelKing]

I live by the axiom that tips are earned. I would have left that waitress nothing.

I agree that waitresses earn their tips, however i feel that leaving no tip makes you look like a cheap bastard.
If the service is downright shitty, I'll ask to speak to a manager, and tip literally pennies.

[Kheldarson]

We weren't going to leave just pennies because it wasn't horrible service, just...subpar. So we only gave her the absolute minimum tip that etiquette demands.

[Syriilord]

We're betting the waitress was on something, but I have no idea what was going on with the guy!

My guess would be he was on the opposite to the waitress

[SG15Z]

I've rarely had a good experience at IHOP. I went to a location once and it was just my party and like 2 other tables in the entire restaurant. I ordered bottomless pancakes. Never got a second helping since we never saw our waitress. My glass stayed empty for 30 minutes (we timed it). And that was just one occurrence at one location. I retried them several times, almost always having a poor time. I haven't gone back in a long time.

[KabeRinnaul]

I was supposed to put this up earlier, but we've just finally gotten the PSP store to work and I've got FF7 & FF8 back.

We also had the joy of experiencing a rare encounter with a pair of Internet Tough Guys outside of their natural environment! Two guys, looked maybe 20s-30s, and an older woman who, from her age and the way she reacted to them, I assume was their mother. The two of them had a very loud and sometimes inappropriate discussion next to us the entire time we were there. And one had an ipod on the entire time, too. Their discussion ranged from video games, to women, to "figure out what this picture on my iphone looks like" (they were torn on whether it was a rabbit or dog). But the part I remember was a lengthy discussion on "where you can totally buy a Russian sniper rifle, dude" and "what if, like, you shot a bird in midair with that thing? Like accidentally or something. The bird would just explode blood all over the place."

A lovely dinner conversation, really.

[EricKei]

I've rarely had a good experience at IHOP. ... I retried them several times, almost always having a poor time. I haven't gone back in a long time.

WE finally got an IHOP or two circa Katrina-time, never having had any of them in town before. So, naturally, people were champing at the bit waiting for them to open...

The one by my house? Miserable service, much like SG's experience, more than once. I refuse to go to that one anymore. The one 15 minutes away? Much better service, not fantastic, just much better. Basically, I'll go there if they have bottomless pancakes and that's about it. Much simpler to just hit the uberdennys' ~_~