Dinner and a movie
Jodi and I (and her mom, and Dennis and Beth) all went out to see the Chronicles of Narnia last Friday night. Movie was great, and I think we all enjoyed it.
We saw the film at Pacific Place in downtown Seattle. We went to dinner beforehand. I won’t name the place, but here are a couple of hints:
- It’s right next to the movie theatre
- They sing and dance to “50s-style” (but not actually 50s) music
- They serve hamburgers
So, anyways. Here comes the gripe.
Thank heavens we got there an hour and a half ahead of time. We never would have made our movie otherwise!
Our table of five ordered what should have been a pretty straight-forward order for this place — basically it was five hamburgers and five shakes. Shouldn’t take too much effort from our waiter and kitchen staff, right?
Wrong. We didn’t get our shakes for about 45 minutes. About five minutes AFTER our hamburgers.
One might think it’s because the wait-staff forgot to turn in the order. They probably did. One might even think that it’s because the kitchen was busy. This I’m less inclined to accept, since you can see right into the kitchen from the tables and they seemed busy but not crazy-busy.
Really, what it probably came down to was that every 15 mins or so the entire wait-staff stopped whatever they were doing and danced for 5 mins or so to the B52s or the like. This was fun the first time — although it was a little disconcerting that our waiter was taking our order and had to stop and say “wait, hold on a few mins I have to go dance”. That set the tone for the rest of the night.
We actually got to hear the 15 minute cycle four times (two songs twice) while we were there at the restaurant. By the final time, I was about to go nuts with frustration that it had taken so long to get our food out. Clearly you’re not supposed to be there that long.
I don’t think I’ll be going back there anytime soon…
