Don't Take Your 2 Year Old To The Hibachi
...seriously, when that grill lights up, you will SCARE THE FREAKING SHIT out of them.
Friday was Vanessa's birthday, so we all went to the hibachi for a meal. We got seated with a family of five morose motherfuckers who were bearing with them a two year old. We learned later, it was the two year old's birthday. WHY would you bring a two year old to the hibachi? Kids don't want to sit down and watch someone cook, they want to run around and have fun! Take them to a McDonald's outfitted with a play area, or Chuck E. Cheese! Given how LITTLE the family seemed to be enjoying themselves (father expressed no appreciation for the food and refused to do anything that makes a hibachi experience fun in the slightest, like talking to the chef or catching food in his mouth) and the others... if they said boo, I would have been shocked. They were quiet (except for when yelling at the kiddo for wanting to escape his high chair and run around), didn't seem particularly thrilled in the slightest. As Heather reflected: "This meal is running you over $30 a head, why not enjoy it?"
At the end of the night, kiddo did manage to escape the chair and started playing in the most highly trafficked area of the restaurant. Upon retrieval, he then stole a pair of chopsticks and bolted off again. I put good money on the bet that those sticks ended up that kid's nose.
The kicker: they stiffed their servers on the tip. Right before we left, a big argument over the bill broke out, loud enough for probably every person in the restaurant to hear. I felt so horribly bad for the staff. Getting stiffed on a bill that had to have been over $100 for food that was absolutely delicious? When four servers need to be tipped out to?
Restaurant karma is going to bite these people in the ass one day.
Now I feel the urge to read Waiter Rant again...
Friday was Vanessa's birthday, so we all went to the hibachi for a meal. We got seated with a family of five morose motherfuckers who were bearing with them a two year old. We learned later, it was the two year old's birthday. WHY would you bring a two year old to the hibachi? Kids don't want to sit down and watch someone cook, they want to run around and have fun! Take them to a McDonald's outfitted with a play area, or Chuck E. Cheese! Given how LITTLE the family seemed to be enjoying themselves (father expressed no appreciation for the food and refused to do anything that makes a hibachi experience fun in the slightest, like talking to the chef or catching food in his mouth) and the others... if they said boo, I would have been shocked. They were quiet (except for when yelling at the kiddo for wanting to escape his high chair and run around), didn't seem particularly thrilled in the slightest. As Heather reflected: "This meal is running you over $30 a head, why not enjoy it?"
At the end of the night, kiddo did manage to escape the chair and started playing in the most highly trafficked area of the restaurant. Upon retrieval, he then stole a pair of chopsticks and bolted off again. I put good money on the bet that those sticks ended up that kid's nose.
The kicker: they stiffed their servers on the tip. Right before we left, a big argument over the bill broke out, loud enough for probably every person in the restaurant to hear. I felt so horribly bad for the staff. Getting stiffed on a bill that had to have been over $100 for food that was absolutely delicious? When four servers need to be tipped out to?
Restaurant karma is going to bite these people in the ass one day.
Now I feel the urge to read Waiter Rant again...