It looks like our department is getting reviews this year. Mine might be tomorrow. I never knew the appropriate term for how I felt. Thanks Dilbert. Fortunately, mine is not quite as bad, but I love the last panel.
This is a holiday week, which means I only have to work eight-hour days. Wohoo!
I visited your Pittsburgh location 11/21/2009. I checked in at the hostess station at 7:30pm for our 7:45pm reservation. The manager told me they had stopped seating anyone because the kitchen could not handle the workload and it would be at least an hour until we would be seated. We took our time having a couple drinks at the bar then were seated just before 9pm. The service was slow but again, we waited patiently. The kitchen ran out of prime rib so three of us had to change our orders. The food was awful. Two of us ordered sirloins. Both were tough and full of gristle. Mine was a small, misshapen cut. Most of the dishes were cold. One order of pasta was sent back to the kitchen and returned cold. Finally, the DJ cranked up the music and turned on the disco lights above our table while we spent half an hour waiting for our check. I like trying new foods and new places. I have no trouble writing off a bad dish once in a while. This was a bad experience overall. I will not return and have explained to others how poor the experience was. Restaurants open every day. I spent many years working in them to put myself through school. There was no excuse for the multitude of problems at your new location. This is attributable to poor management. Even the manager said “I want to get hit by a bus”. He did comp a couple meals and drinks. You must resolve the management and training situations in this restaurant. The kitchen staff needs training to keep pace with the dining room. The managers need to know how to keep everyone organized. There need to be an appropriate number of wait staff to handle the number of tables. The manager needs to order enough food to keep the kitchen stocked. The quality of the food needs to improve. The noise level in the dining room needs to be reduced so people can have dinner conversations.
“What are you wearing?”
“I’m trying on my Halloween costume. It’s space cowboy.”
“First, there are no cows in space. Second, didn’t you do that five years ago? It’s time to move on.”
This exchange was between Nathan Fillion and Molly Quinn’s characters on Castle. The reference to space cowboy was making fun of another Nathan Fillion series, Firefly. It was very funny. Firefly is still available on Netflix.
I just gave Nick a bath. He is looking worse. It is sad.
The end cannot come quickly enough. Or at least, the end of this movie. “Who will survive?” Well, after half an hour I no longer cared. The spoof Disaster Movie was a finer piece of art. They did not leave a second on the cutting room floor. 158 minutes is acceptable for an epic story like Titanic, not this mess.
It is a very cute commercial. I am growing tired of the iPhone envy. It is a crappy phone but an excellent computer. Either get one for yourself or shut the fuck up. Let me know when someone else introduces something better. It has not happened yet.
