Comments on: I Am Still Waiting For A Response From The Owners of My Local Italian Restaurant

By: jadepark

jadepark — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 02:22:56 +0000

I think the world is against you. Definitely, according to this evidence!

Either that, or Someone You Know Who is Not On Your Side works at that restaurant!

By: monkeyinabox

monkeyinabox — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 19:27:18 +0000

Toss this salad baby!

By: Eve

Eve — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 18:34:46 +0000

You had problems with 6 differents orders with this same place, it’s time to give them up. A local restaurant like this should see you come in or hear you on the phone and be like, “BAM! Here goes that crisp pepper bread guy. That’s the kind of service your loyalty should warrant.

Regarding portion sizes, I have a friend who is convinced that when more than one person in your party orders the same dish, each dish will have a smaller portion. So, if you and I went into a restaurant and we both ordered the pasta marinara, our respective portions would be smaller than if you ordered the chicken and I ordered the pasta. You got five orders of the same salad and they appeared to be smaller portions than normal to you, so perhaps my friend might have a valid point after all.

By: Skip

Skip — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 17:41:29 +0000

From someone who has offered many establishments like your “favorite Italian” restaurant suggestions for how to “retain” a customer base, I commiserate. Remember the Seinfeld rental car scene? “You know how to get a customer. You just don’t know how to keep a customer!” Keeping in mind that you have long since gone past the “Three Strikes Rule” with your place…it’s time to give up on them. Also, you might consider watching the flick Waiting before going back there…they may have your “number”…and do some unspeakable things to your food. It’s all true! The service industry is not what it used to be. Hope you can find another “favorite” place. BTW…I spent 17 years as a corporate restaurant manager.

By: Susan

Susan — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 03:28:56 +0000

Sorry Pauly, maybe it was your description, but those items you mentioned sounded yummy, despite their mistakes and omissions. You should just shut-up and enjoy the surprises.

By: Amy

Amy — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 02:24:05 +0000

I’d be careful with that restaurant, Pauly. They just might try to poison you to keep you off their backs.

And I probably wouldn’t order salad from them again. Who knows what’s really in the dressing?

By: Brooke

Brooke — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 00:04:59 +0000

Clearly you have never worked in the food service industry.

By: Pauly D

Pauly D — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 21:10:08 +0000

James - Flowers I can do. Chocolates? No way.

By: James Cooper

James Cooper — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 21:04:53 +0000

It seems rather evident that you’ve done something to rub these fellows the wrong way, which is much much worse than rubbing them the right way. In order to begin the healing process you might insist that they tell you how they perceive that you’ve wronged them and then commence about trying to heal those wounds. Perhaps with flowers, chocolates, and Italian food from the restaurant across the street.

By: Steven Campbell

Steven Campbell — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 20:12:29 +0000

Rach: Does that actually work? Would have been very useful while I was abroad a few months ago.