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Friday Night at the restaurant conglomerate
02/16/08
We decided to go to Montana's cookhouse for our Valentine's dinner. The portents were not good whe we arrived and were informed that the wait would be 25-30 minutes. The boys were happy as we settled into the bar and they found 5 credits in the bar video game. Things turned south again when none of the bar tenders enquired on whether we would be interested in having a drink even though one of them moved me out of the way twice to get out from behind the bar. Next we were seated beside the kitchen and only feet away from the roll of paper that they use to cover the tables. Every few minutes we would here the sound of ripping paper as another table was bussed. I wonder if Montana's and Jack Astor's are owned by the same company since Jack Astor's also uses the paper tablecloth technique. In both restaurants the wait staff also write their name on the table when they come to introduce themselves. Our waitress' name was Bez. It wasn't really Bez, she told be that was her nickname andd it was easier to write. I neglected to ask Cait when I was at Jack Astor's if that was really her name or also her nickname.
By this time I was very hungry and thirsty. Drinks came, food came, for more details refer to my twitter feed for yesterday. Everything was fine. We received an unexpected bonus when instead of the 8 oz. steak my wife ordered a 12 oz. showed up instead. When we brought it to Bez's attention she told us that the other girl who was trailing around with her had entered it wrong and the bill would be corrected. The other girl looked like a trainee, I expect they probably docked her pay the $4 though I hope not. That would be a serious bummer, we didn't want to get anyone in trouble.
After cooling my heels in the bar I was in a bit of a surly mood, the table placement didn't help but Bez saved the evening. I do know that I am not going to Montana's for my birthday, I don't want to wear that mangy horn hat while they sing to me.
I seemed to have picked up a bit of a cold so I am stuffed up and feel poorly on this first Family Day long weekend. I have found that blogging on the eeepc can be a bit of a challenge, the text if pretty small and my fingers are pretty big so extra copy editing is required to fix the mistypings but all in all I am very happy with it. Now I am fatigued from the gargantuan effort of writing this post so I think I'll rest for a while.
1 comment
I totally hear you. My girlfriend and i actually Hate eating at what we have come to refer to as the ‘big box’ restaurants. Montanas, Kelsey’s, Caseys, et al. This valentines day we popped round to a Thai place here in Hamilton, called the Eden Thai. It’s actually a decent sized place in side, but it always makes us sad because the food is so good, but no one ever goes in. I sincerely hope that people get fed up with places like these ‘big box’ restaurants and rediscover the joys of the neighbourhood place.
