Service

that hasnt happened, but a funny/crazy situation happened when I was at the outback steakhouse a few years back. an angry employee was in a verbal dispute with the manager and stormed off. all the sudden we heard this sound like an engine revving. the waiter got his motorcycle and busted thru the doors and actually rode around the restaurant. it was insane, and insanely funny. people were booping out but I just stayed and enjoyed my boot of beer and bloomin onions. definitely one of the most random experiences ever.

I realize that this is an old post, but after reading these comments I feel compelled to submit a response with a bit of a story incorporated into the mix. I live in the northwestern vicinity of New Jersey and am familiar with a location that up until a year ago, give or take, was a popular TGI Fridays in a town known as Ramsey. I’d had the distinct privilege of having eaten there on multiple occasions with fellow companions prior to it’s non-existence. I use that term “non-existence” ambiguously due to the seemingly mysterious and cryptic reason(s) for it’s disappearing. Often, restaurants are granted a certain period of notice if there weekly/monthly figures have been consecutively below par. As much as the managers/corporate appear concerned about food quality, portions and pricing, they interestingly enough have far more important issues to worry about. Acquiescing to the typically self-righteous demands of the complaining public as well as the managers subserviently submitting to their own superiors comes first and foremost to the obsequious team leaders, and don’t even consider how it affects the massively underpaid and neglected waitstaff. The ever revolving cycle of scapegoating and hierarchy, the backbone of the American dream, never ceases to fascinate me. In response to the original post, granted it was almost 2 years ago, I in fact was believe it or not present at that TGI Fridays in mid 2008 when a fed-up waiter apparently walked out during his shift. He wasn’t our server but he did appear to have a thing for our waitress, which led my friends and I to believe that it was his bosses, and not his fellow staff who were the problem…and he probably had his own personal stuff going on that added to his abrupt departure from that fine establishment. Small world one must agree, and hopefully we all learned a little something about ourselves from this.