i was eating tonight at Shakey's SM North with the meij. normally shakey's has great service. but right off i could tell that i shouldn't be expecting too much in terms of service because they seated me behind the divider & in any case the staff wasn't paying too much attention. it took a full minute of hand-waving before anyone came over to take the order. then the food was cold, but the drinks were not. no forks and knives either, we had to wait again. then i realized we had no gravy for the chicken and had to wait again. ok, whatever, it's 15 minutes to the mall closing, i shouldn't expect much, even though shakey's closes later than 9. halfway through the meal, as i was reminiscing that the chicken and mojos didn't taste as good as before, nature called the meiji, who insisted it had to be now, now, now. no servers around again, so i decided what the heck, i didn't want a pool of pee on the floor.

the bathroom was sooooooo dirty and stinky as is usual for this shakey's. there was pee on the floor, there were shoeprints and pee on the seat. at least there was toilet paper. after doing our business, the flush almost did not work and i had to hold down the button to make sure it sucked out everything. at least there was soap and running water. count the little blessings.
and then i returned to a table that had no food. I COULD HAVE WALKED OUT WITHOUT PAYING! but no, i decided to go to the manager and say nicely: hi, we went to the bathroom, our table has been cleared, and i haven't paid yet. she said, did you tell anyone you had to go to the bathroom? i said, well i was waiting, but nobody was around. i paid in cash--i had originally wanted to card it since i had only P1000 on hand, but i didn't want them to have my name and digits. she said they would replace the food, which i had bagged instead, but now i'm iffy about actually eating it.

which reminds me of emma thompson's rant last night on the conan o'brien show about british airways. the plane she took from the UK to NY had trouble with the engine prior to take off, the seat in front of the man next to her fell apart, and the toilet didn't work properly.

of course neither emma thompson nor i complained directly to the management. why don't people do that? have we been conditioned to just shut up and take shit and say mmmmm good?

and you know what takes the cake? you know those paper placemats they have with puzzles for you to do while you wait for your food? the maze had no solution! grr! :p

Tags: rant

Tags: rant