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Monday, December 22, 2008

Don Pablos of Doom, Part 2

This officially begins my boycott of the Christiana Don Pablos.

We went for lunch today. I know its 3 days before Christmas, so I figured it would be busy, but they were SEVERELY under staffed. It took about 10 minutes to get us seated even thought the restaurant was half empty. Waitress took forever getting our drinks and then when we ordered she had to ask me like 3 times what I wanted. I can get over that. The biggest thing that annoyed me about her was the fact that she kept touching me. Like every time she said something to me she would put her hand on my arm or shoulder. Note to all servers: Do NOT touch your patrons. She also got annoyed because Justin drank his soda fast (its was filled to the top with ice, so he really only had about 2 sips in each glass). At one point she told him he was cut off. She was only sort of joking.

So, the actual reason for my boycott: the guy who brought our food out dumped an entire cup of ranch dressing on me. I started to wipe it off with the one napkin I had and he kind of tried to help but more or less just stared at me. Yes it was a brand new coat and yes, it is dry clean only. He finally came back with some more napkins and help to clean some of it up but then started to walk away with out taking the pile of ranch coated napkins and the plate that was splatted. I kind of figured at some point the manager (or our server) would come over and say something, but we didn't see the manager or our server for about 20 minutes. By that time, I just wanted to leave. It took her another 15 minutes on top of that to get us our check.

So when all was said and done, it was a two hour lunch that consisted of soup & salad and a few tacos. Seriously?!?!?!

So frustrating!!!