jcemom
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- Mar 23, 2003
To anyone not interested, please excuse the restaurant review, but for those considering celebrations at Chef M's, here goes:
We had dinner at Chef M's last October and thoroughly enjoyed it. We had a great server, the food was decent, the character interaction really good.
This year we did lunch, maybe that was the problem since it was temporary for free dining, I don't know. We were seated only a few minutes after checking in, great. It was just downhill from there for us, unfortunately. Our server was inattentive and rushed us. Who brings a cake while you're eating salads?? I consider cake dessert. Needless to say, DD didn't want to eat food after she got a cake, she wanted to eat cake. I convinced her to eat a little lunch first, but I shouldn't have had to do that. He should have waited. He didn't bring plates or a knife for the cake until we were through with our food and I had already went to the dessert buffet area to grab some plates, and cut the cake with my butter knife. We had to ask for a box for the leftovers. We also had to ask for drink refills, they were never offered. We were finished eating and had to sit waiting for Minnie and Donald to come by. Mickey came over about two minutes after we were seated, and Goofy somewhere in the middle, Pluto was near the end of our meal. Character interaction was non existant. They signed the autograph book, quicky posed for a photo, and waved goodbye. No hugs, no playing around, no attention. We were there about an hour and fifteen minutes.
The buffet options were fairly limited for lunch, and we didn't care for most of what we did try. The best thing I ate was the chicken nuggets from the kids section. The pizza pan was always empty, I had to go up and check numerous times to get a piece for DD. Other dishes were often empty as well. They weren't keeping up with it very well.
As I mentioned earlier, we were only charged for the cake, not the edible image. However, our server did automatically add an 18% gratuity which I didn't notice until later in the day. Since I wrote in an additional tip I wasn't very happy about that at all. I should have looked closer, my mistake. He didn't even deserve 18% let alone additional tip money. I was able to get the 20% DDE discount off the cake though.
We had dinner at Chef M's last October and thoroughly enjoyed it. We had a great server, the food was decent, the character interaction really good.
This year we did lunch, maybe that was the problem since it was temporary for free dining, I don't know. We were seated only a few minutes after checking in, great. It was just downhill from there for us, unfortunately. Our server was inattentive and rushed us. Who brings a cake while you're eating salads?? I consider cake dessert. Needless to say, DD didn't want to eat food after she got a cake, she wanted to eat cake. I convinced her to eat a little lunch first, but I shouldn't have had to do that. He should have waited. He didn't bring plates or a knife for the cake until we were through with our food and I had already went to the dessert buffet area to grab some plates, and cut the cake with my butter knife. We had to ask for a box for the leftovers. We also had to ask for drink refills, they were never offered. We were finished eating and had to sit waiting for Minnie and Donald to come by. Mickey came over about two minutes after we were seated, and Goofy somewhere in the middle, Pluto was near the end of our meal. Character interaction was non existant. They signed the autograph book, quicky posed for a photo, and waved goodbye. No hugs, no playing around, no attention. We were there about an hour and fifteen minutes.
The buffet options were fairly limited for lunch, and we didn't care for most of what we did try. The best thing I ate was the chicken nuggets from the kids section. The pizza pan was always empty, I had to go up and check numerous times to get a piece for DD. Other dishes were often empty as well. They weren't keeping up with it very well.
As I mentioned earlier, we were only charged for the cake, not the edible image. However, our server did automatically add an 18% gratuity which I didn't notice until later in the day. Since I wrote in an additional tip I wasn't very happy about that at all. I should have looked closer, my mistake. He didn't even deserve 18% let alone additional tip money. I was able to get the 20% DDE discount off the cake though.
