Last night my family of three used a coupon from a restaurant coupon website. The coupon was folded on the table and the waitress immediately spotted it and said that she needed that. We ordered drinks and three entrees. She informed us that we needed to spend $40.00 as per the coupon and she was not sure we had spent enough. She returned to the table to tell us that we were a few dollars short. When the bill came we saw we were .75 short. This prompted us to order the brushetta. The topping was very tasty but the bread gave our jaws a work out as it was very chewy. Our waitress would zoom by the table and shoot off before we could tell her all that we wanted to tell her. My husband never did get a soda refill but I did get a tea refill. It took three interactions to get the sweetener however. My food was bland. I had white clam sauce over linguine. The sauce itself was good but the pasta was bland and diluted with the large amount of juice at the bottom of the very large bowl. My daughter did like her Grandma's pizza and my husband's rigatoni was good. That was one thing ...the portions were plentiful. The waitress was literally taking items off the table. I had merely put my fork down as she swooped by to ask if she could box it up. My daughter was still eating as she offered again to wrap hers up. After the third time she put her fork down and let her take the pizza! The food arrived at the table in record time and we literally were in and out of the restaurant in 50 minutes! we felt as if we were given the rush job to get out. The waitress's attention was not really good service. we saw it as a mechanism to clear the table around us and cut down on the down time between customers at the table. This was less than a great Saturday night. Our daughter was visiting from out of down and we just didn't feel like we could or should linger and talk.
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