So, Friday was a day of manual labor-preparing some of our stations for the Women’s Lifestyle Show. On days like this, I wear crappy sweatshirts and jeans for obvious reasons. On this particular day I was wearing my 9 year old Sully’s Pub sweatshirt. It just so happened that I found out that the Jaycee’s monthly happy hour was going to be at Sully’s. I walked over after work and joined a group of about six people. They had all ordered food since they were going to the Riverman game. I ordered a beer from the waiter. He brought the beer back and said he would put it on the tab. I explained I wasn’t going to be ordering food so that would be a waste. I asked if he wanted me to pay at the bar. He said, “No. Fine!” He ripped the $20 out of my hand and left-presumably to make change. I have so many issues with his behavior, I don’t know where to begin. First, why do you wear an apron if you don’t have cash to make change? You’re obviously a glorified cocktail server on Friday nights. Second, where does anyone in the service industry come off with that kind of attitude? I’ve spent the last 15 years working in bars and restaurants in Peoria and have never seen that kind of attitude. Third, dude I was wearing a Sully’s sweatshirt. What the hell? That’s like biting the hand that feed you-literally. Anyway, as everyone that knows me points out-it only happens to you. I find the one bartender in the world that charges extra for ice to chill a shot and I find the one bartender in Sully’s who is a complete jack.
Search
Archived Posts
Categories
- Uncategorized (528)
Blogroll
- Bill’s Content aka Bill’s Drama
- Central Illinois Gourmand
- Chef Kevin’s Culinary Rants & Raves
- Common Sense Peoria
- Eyebrows McGee
- Give Me a Bouncy “C”
- Good Year for the Outlaw
- It Just Slays Me
- Journal of a Starving Artist-Britt
- keep passing the open windows
- Krisser Pisser
- Lollygaggin
- Market 117/116
- Merle Widmer’s Peoria Watch
- Midwest Confidential aka mapgirl
- Morton Malaise
- Music Together Peoria
- Name This Peoria Landmark
- Notes From the Trailerhood
- O’Briens Briar Patch
- Peoria Jaycees
- Peoria Life
- Peoria Pundit
- Peoria Rocks
- Peoria.com
- PeoriaIllinoisan
- RLO
- Scott Janz
- Support Your Local Central IL Businesses
- The Peoria Chronicle
- Tim’s Blog-Random Events, Places, and Notes
- Tucker’s Blog
- Waiter’s Rant
- Where in the World is Marcia
- Willie York
- Willy Nilly
- WordPress.com
- WordPress.org
Good thing you did not ask the dude for a chilled shot, one can only imagine his hissy fit.
Next time go in there with an Adam’s Apple sweatshirt!
Point the guy out to me, and I’ll break his leg for you.
Well, I heve dad my share of bad service, but considering that I live in Ecuador, that is not so uncommon. Overthere, in US, you have that culture of politeness or something like that, here we don´t so much, we dont live to serve others like your working class does
“Working class” that lives to serve others? In the USA, the working class poerson serving you drinks or food in a restaurant might very well be the daughter of soem Caterpillar executive earning money for college. Our “classes” here are very fluid and depend on how hard you are willing to work.
The worst service I ever had was from a Vonachen that used to work at the Outback.
She was married to a son of Pete Vonachen, owner of the Mercedes group.
She had no clue what taken care of a customer is, you would expect that someone from a family of restauranteurs would know better.
I was a trained waiter and not even the Caterpillar executives and the Bradley professors were able to notice the difference, they treated me like a plate thrower at Denny’s. Irony of ironies, by the age of 7 I had dinned at upscale restaurants that Peoria only wish it will have some day.