Originally posted by zippeedee
I went to the Empress Room on a meal plan in the early 80's. We were all dressed up too! We checked in at the podium and waited, and waited, and waited.... we were just out of college and pretty clueless, so we just kept waiting. TWO HOURS later, we finally went back up and they had lost our names on the list. We finally got seated at 10pm. The waiter was the NICEST man in the world. When he heard what had happened, he took away our menus and just kept bringing plates out to the table. I think he cleaned out the kitchen for us. We got to try an assortment of just about everything they had. The highlight was a bit of ALL the desserts. He turn two grumbling hungry kids into very happy campers that night. I'll never forget it.