I love hockey, and all detroit sports thats one of the reasons I have gone to the penalty box since it has been open. Lately it has slid down hill a liitle bit! Service and food have been marginal. Tonight I had an awful experience...so I won't be back ever again. I ordered the $16.99 ribeye steak, and when it came to my table my first 3 bites were all grissle.
I asked the waitress to get me another steak, and she said ok! 5 minutes later she came back to my table, and announced that they were out of ribeyes that I had gotten the last one?
I told her that I would take a new york strip instead. she said ok that she would have that put on right away. 10 minutes later she came back to my table and said that they were totally out of steaks??? I could not beleive it a friday evening about 7:30 and they were out of steaks.
She then asked me if I wanted to order anything else? I said give me the menu, and give me a minute to look at it. 5 minutes later she came back to my table and said that she was mistaken that they did indeed have new york strip steaks? I told her go ahead and put one on for me.
I waited 15 min and still did not have my food nor had she come back to check on me.
Finally she came back and told me that my steak should be done very soon. Well the party I was with was done eating, and was ready to leave, so I told my waitress to give it to me to go.
5 minutes later she brings my dinner in a bag and asks me if I want my bill? I said yes we are ready to leave. After she brought my bill I was looking at it and it still had a ribeye steak on there. Now I am getting irrated so another waitress saw me and asked if everything was ok? i told her that the ribeye was on the bill? She said that the ribeye, and the new york strip were the same price. She could see I was upset so she offered to get the manager.
What a mistake that was! he could have cared less about my dining experience! He said I understand that you thought your ribeye was all fatty and grissle. He said that is that cut of meat that the fat gives it flavor. I said no that it was grissle not fat, and that it was a poor cut of meat. he said that he disagreed that they had just picked those steaks up 6 hours earlier from colony market!!! i said it was still a bad cut, and when I asked for another one you did not have any more. then I preceded to tell him I just got my new york strip, and my party was already done eating. he said what do you expect we had to cook you a new steak! i told him forget it that he was not really interested in my complaint. he told me not to tell him what he was interested in that he wanted to make us happy. He offered to buy us a drink Whoopee!!!
I told him No he really did not care about my problem and I did not want his drink. He proceeded to tell me that there are some people you just can't make happy.
By now I am steaming and I am holding my bill and my credit card in my hand because my waitress never came back to pick it up. he then says that he will give my bill, and credit card to my server. never once during this whole ordeal did he apologize or offer to comp my meal!
An apology would have been sufficient. the waitress brought me my receipt apologized up and down again! I wrote in my tip and signed my bill, and we left the penalty box for the VERY LAST TIME!!
John ThomasMore