Wednesday, April 08, 2009

screwed over by "melody" of ruby tuesday in alexandria

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so, i don't head this far south often, but today matt was craving ruby tuesday's salad bar (which is a really good salad bar, as far as salad bars go) and this was kinda on the way to class at NKU where he is teaching tonght. when we sat down there, i saw the table tent thing listing their happy hour specials and had the idea that we should get liquored up before class.

each time we ordered a drink, we pointed to that tent and read off of it. when we got our bill,, i thought it was a bit odd that all our drinks were full price.

i brought this to the attention of our lovely server, melody, and she pointed out that we had to order them at the bar to get the special. i explained my surprise that she hadn't brought this to our attention sooner, seeing that we had ordered from the tent advertisement every time. she said the bartender told her about it when we got our second drink. again, i asked why she didn't tell us this information she had learned from the bartender she said, to my face (i am not exaggerating), "when i tell people the happy hour specials are only from the bar, they get up and leave"

so, apparently, melody decided that it would be better to hold the truth from us and hope we don't notice then to come clean and risk us leaving (which we wouldn't have done, we probably would have just moved to the bar). and, it seemed she didn't just learn of this from the bartender upon ordering our second drink as she said, since she obviously has this come up before.

it was shady, and i don't think i will be going back there anytime soon (not like we went there a lot anyway)

so, if you are ever blessed with melody at the ruby tuesday in alexandria, be warned. or, even better, stay away from chains in general. it's better to support small businesses anyway :)

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2 comments:

Justin S Barrett said...

It all comes down to greed. She wanted you to stay so she could get a big tip from the order. My gut says that she got no tip from you, though.

I wonder how many more times she'll play the same game before realizing that she's actually losing money (not to mention respect) by doing so.

timeless said...

thanks for the comment, and your gut is right. i'm the guy who tips a minimum of 20% (usually rounding up) because i know what a tough job it is. you have to really piss me off to get down to 15%. this is the first time i can remember not tipping anything, but she was just underhanded.