Snubbed at Hill's

[barry_barry]

It's been a while since I've been so completely and totally hardcore-ignored at a restaurant in Austin. I was picking up a motorcycle from my buddy's shop today, and decided to stop at Hill's Cafe on South Congress for lunch. It was after the lunch rush, so they weren't crazy busy, and were probably starting to go on breaks or whatever. But even the hostess seemed kind of hacked at me for some reason. She seemed miffed that it was only me that wanted to eat today. She sat me in the frontish area with the small booths, and then I proceeded to remember that oh yeah, Hill's, for all of its good foods and Austin flavor, doesn't have anything remotely resembling a vegetarian anything, except their sides plate, 90% of which is probably AS bad or worse than a burger. That's okay, it's been a while since I had a big ole Tex-mex Burger from there. What the hell. After 5 minutes or so of reading the menu, and 10 minutes of trying to garner ANY passing waitstaff's attention, I finally had to get up and ask if there was anyone that was waiting on my table, to which they answered "I'm not sure, let me go check..." and they too promptly disappeared. After 5 more minutes, I gave up and left. Thought about complaining to someone, but all that was going to do was make me more angry, and I still wasn't going to get my food in time to get my bike and get back to my office.

I should have stopped at Opal's. At least people THERE like me enough to serve me still ;) Or at least they did... maybe I shouldn't test that theory today, since I obviously have my "No Service" karma turned on today. The lady at Wendy's was nice to me, even when I asked for a side salad instead of fries with my chicken thingy on a bun.