Well, I guess it wasn't THAT bad but when you are trying to eat healthy and the people at your table aren't cooperative and neither is the server nor the restaurant itself... well you get most of the picture.
I'll start from the beginning...
Last night DH and I went out for dinner with our niece, FIL and an associate... I normally do research before I go to a restaurant to make sure I have an idea of what to order when I get there to stay within my points range. This restaurant we go to does not have a nutritional guide, online or in restaurant. I have asked before and they say to look on the web... I tell them its not there then they say well I don't know where its kept here. By Law they are supposed to have it available to the customer. This particular restaurant is very stubborn - I guess I should complain higher up.
I mentioned to my colleagues at the table that its hard to find a nutrition guide for the restaurant and got told "Nobody wants to know whats in restaurant food! Just eat it an enjoy! What is obvious is there is too much salt in restaurant food". This comment coming from people who have had heart attacks and have high blood pressure and they are not interested in what they are eating? Wow.
So back to the dinner... We got seated, the restaurant was somewhat full. We haven't seen this restaurant this full in a long while... we chocked it up that one of the waiters weren't there - the obnoxious waiter. He thinks he's all that and will actually sit at your table and join in on your conversation. He picks on my kids, crosses the line (rude) with my FIL (FIL is a regular there) and he is very loud and seriously over weight. He tells us that the restaurant falls apart without him. phhhfffft!
Anyway! So we are waiting at our table and the table next to us asks the waitress if their meal was coming yet (hmm warning bell!) ... we sit for 20 minutes and finally someone at my table asked the waitress walking by if we could get beverages... we ordered, the girl came with the coffee pot and our other beverages... she set down the water, chocolate milk, tea and then left with the coffee pot without pouring coffee. We had to call her back.
On to the meal... we ordered - cause I am cautious there I order a garden salad with grilled chicken on top.
Once ordered I was concerned that because she didn't ask me what dressing I wanted they would just pour anything on top. I either don't get dressing or I only get it on the side. My hubby ordered the same thing I did...
Our meal showed up - or at least 3 meals at our table did... DH and I had to wait another 10 minutes. We had arrived at 6:30pm it was now 8pm
We finally got our salad... they had a mini corn bread loaf plunked on the top of the salad - DH salad was 3/4 larger than mine even though we ordered the same thing. Thankfully she had put the salad dressing on the side (guessing what she thought we would want) DH changed her choice. I didn't use mine.
I looked at my salad - it was far from pleasing to the eye - it looked totally thrown together with corn bread plunked on top as an after thought. I removed the corn bread (I am sensitive to corn so don't eat it) I didn't realize it was coming with the meal. Under the corn bread was bagged salad with croutons dumped on top... but the croutons were mainly crumbs. You know when you get to the bottom of the bag and you just have the crumbly stuff left? well I had soggy crumbs. I scraped off my cucumbers and ate them along with the chicken, then dove into the lettuce only to be shocked and almost puke. The top lettuce was fine but underneath the lettuce was rotten. Yes, soft, mushy, brown, rotten... it tasted weird. I tried to pick through it but my stomach couldn't take it. When the waitress picked up our plates she asked if I was done with my salad I mentioned the lettuce was rotten. Her response was "really? but your salad came from the same bag as his!" Meaning DH's. DH said "My salad came from a bag?" My response was" I guess I got the bottom and last of the bag"
I enjoyed the water and my tea... they never offered to refill my hot water... but then again they never brought the coffee pot around for my colleagues again either. In the end, I did get my meal for free but that isn't want I was aiming for. I just wanted good service and a tasty meal.
Hmmm, maybe the restaurant does fall apart when the obnoxious waiter isn't there!
BTW it was Ricky's All Day Grill...
When I got home I didn't look for something else to eat. I found something else to fill my time positively... tomorrow is another day.
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