Gumbo4x4
Note to the ladies who forgot to
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Well, I can't remember the last time I did this, but we left no tip at lunch. DW had the day off and came to meet me. We sat down in the restaurant about 11:40, ordered fairly quickly, didn't get our food until 12:35. Personally, I think that's a long time to wait for 2 sandwiches, 1 of which was the special. In the interim, we saw numerous people come in after us, eat, and leave before we ever got our food. The explanation from the waitress was that DW's brisket was the holdup. Kitchen was busy and as they didn't have brisket sliced, they kept kicking our order to the bottom of the list until they caught up. Waitress came by to check on us once. When the food arrived, I told her to bring 2 boxes and the check. I wolfed down enough to get through the afternoon, boxed the rest up, left $25 on a $24.92 bill.
Usually, I feel bad enough for the wait staff that I still tip well even when the kitchen screws up. But, that combined with her not checking on us nor checking with the kitchen after the holdup was too much. Food was pretty decent, what I had of it. But, I could not bring myself to tip. First time in forever.
Usually, I feel bad enough for the wait staff that I still tip well even when the kitchen screws up. But, that combined with her not checking on us nor checking with the kitchen after the holdup was too much. Food was pretty decent, what I had of it. But, I could not bring myself to tip. First time in forever.
But seriously, sorry you had to experience crummy service.
She came back about 5-10 min later with our food. After we finished eating it was another 20 min trying to get the check and that was only after flagging her down again since she hadn't come back by since our food arrived. There were no apologizes or excuses. 
