PDN Rants and Raves, 5/20/12
I sent in a rant to the PDN Rants and Raves section which didn't get published, so I'm going to publish it here instead. Or to paraphrase Mel Brooks, it's good to have a blog. My rant:
Rant to a Port Angeles restaurant that was CLOSED on a day they're always OPEN. We had planned a dinner gathering at this restaurant, weeks in advance, after making absolutely certain that the restaurant is open on that day. Pick a schedule and run with it.
There, it's off my chest. The restaurant, by the way, is excellent: great service, food to die for, etc; which is why we were so irate when we had to go somewhere else at the last minute.
posted by Tom Harper at 1:36 PM
9 Comments:
I'm in the same boat dealing with morons but it affects the quality of my life every day. I have a special needs, and a large new store in town is not choosing to work with folks like us. Seems they could hire JUST ONE PERSON and empower them - a person who is familiar with the industry and is familiar with how to read thermometers, proper use of calanders/dates, etc. From what I've seen much of the energy there is spent hovering over and attempting to control the extreme newbies - who, of course, are holding the place up. But to hire such a person, requires true vision, sustained traffic, and $$. Will be interesting to those who have the time to follow the developments to see if any of those three things appear. I'll check back here.
Did you ever check and ask why they were closed? Just because you called and someone said yes were open doesn't mean something might have came up and they had to close. So do you think they should have called you and told you they would be closed that day? Unless you made a reservation for your party how would they know they needed to stay open for you?
Oh well, cry me a river. If you want to eat at a restaurant any time YOU want, buy your own, then you can decide when it's open and when it's closed.
Get a life
"Oh well, cry me a river. If you want to eat at a restaurant any time YOU want, buy your own, then you can decide when it's open and when it's closed.
Get a life"
Ah, yes. The words that represent the Port Angeles business community so well.
Why should customers expect a place of business to be open during stated hours? Why should customers be upset after making elaborate plans BASED UPON the business' posted business hours, only to find it closed when they arrive?
Obviously, the customers are always wrong, and the business always right. This has been the formula for success in business throughout the land.
"Port Angeles: Stoopid, and proud of it".
WOW, I guess the business should have stayed open for you even if they had a death in the family. Yes, please do get a life.
@ Anon. 3:53
Did you read the original post? Show me where it says there was a death in a family involved?
"Rant to a Port Angeles restaurant that was CLOSED on a day they're always OPEN. We had planned a dinner gathering at this restaurant, weeks in advance, after making absolutely certain that the restaurant is open on that day. Pick a schedule and run with it."
Oh, it was a DEATH. Well, as long as we're sure about that...
We are sure about that, right?
As for the rest, well, it is their restaurant. They can keep, or not keep, whatever hours they choose.
I can also eat, or not eat, where I choose.
Some business owners around here don't get that. They think customers are there exclusively to drop off truckloads of cash and then piss off. It's gotten a lot better recently, but from reading these comments, I'd say there are still more than a few around here with that attitude.
WOW, can't you people read? The death was just an example!!!! Should the restaurant have stayed open for this guy even if there was a death in the family?
"Should the restaurant have stayed open for this guy even if there was a death in the family?"
Doesn't this person have employees competent enough to keep the business running for a few days without the owner? If not, I don't think I'd want to eat there anyways...
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