Comments | bad_service: Birthday Flan

thornwolf in bad_service

Birthday Flan - not a given

May 12, 2009 12:42

This past weekend a group of my friends and I were staying in Palm Springs for my birthday weekend. We went to the Blue Coyote Grill because they have wicked awesome margaritas. Their food is overpriced and mediocre but we weren't going there really for the food anyways, its one of those places where you go to drink, the food is just a sop, and its ( Read more... )

*restaurant, tex-mex food is delicious, this can only end in beers, you gotta speak up, tex-mex ain't as good as calimex

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insaint May 12 2009, 20:07:58 UTC

Wow. That's some serious bad service, yeah. Getting charged for the dessert was just the icing on the flan. =)

witchylatina May 13 2009, 01:37:26 UTC

I love love love love flan. If it's homemade and made with cream cheese that's a combo flan/cheesecake.

I love it!

Sorry...but yeah that sounds like really bad service.

andalusi May 13 2009, 19:59:43 UTC

Ugh. That's not flan at that point: it's like a protocheesecake struggling to climb out of primordial dessert soup and one day evolve into cheesecake!

But I may be a bit of a flan purist.

witchylatina May 13 2009, 20:06:11 UTC

There are different variations of flan. That is my favorite, however the best is the homemade kind that my mom makes.

Only flan I don't like is the chocolate favorite one (because I don't like chocolate).

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aloneat4am May 12 2009, 20:15:43 UTC

Hah! The manager probably thought since you claimed to be to drunk to do math youd never even notice the charge for the flan. Thats some seriously sucky service. Im with you on the hate relationship with flan too, that stuff is just nasty.

maladetta May 12 2009, 20:22:00 UTC

So did you end up paying for the flan or did you say something?

Gotta say, I can't sympathize too much with the split check thing. Did you ask at the start of the meal? If they'd said no then, maybe somebody could be the DM (designated mathematician); if you waited - most restaurants hate being asked after the fact. But basically, it's not the waiter/restaurant's fault you drank too much.

purpledice May 12 2009, 20:30:39 UTC

Being charged for a *birthday* treat that *they* gave you? That's bullshit. I'd call back to talk to the owner, cuz that really is just ridiculous.

cookiepartyyy May 12 2009, 20:32:43 UTC

Yeah, that is the shittiest thing you could do to someone you're serving on their birthday.

indicinderelly May 13 2009, 00:23:38 UTC

No doubt it sucks but I assure you, there are worst ways to treat a customer, especially on their birthday.

thornwolf May 12 2009, 20:35:36 UTC

I did, they weren't there, hoping to try again. I mean I know I'm not going to get my money back, Im already home and its...what..3 dollar flan? But I kinda just wanna let them know how shitty it is to offer an olive branch in the form of flan and then still charge for it.

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roxtarrr May 12 2009, 20:34:02 UTC

the only part of this that seems terrible to me is the fact that they charged you for the flan considering that you didn't request it.

i hope you didn't pay for it.

thornwolf May 12 2009, 20:37:35 UTC

We did, I really didn't want to get into it over flan on my birthday, and I certainly didn't want to calculate everything all over again (the gratuity was split up evenly) but I still am attempting to contact them about it just so it doesnt happen again to someone else cuz that's really lame.