I came to Harry's today (Sunday) for breakfast with my friend who was taking me to the airport. Arriving at 11:50, we sat at the counter because I had a plane to catch. It took the waiter 10 minutes to take our order. 25 minutes later, we had not been served. We asked the waiter when he finally came by. He went and looked at the tickets and said we were number 10. That is incredible since the ticket space does not hold more than 15 tickets and I saw him put our ticket up there. I told him we would have to leave. He went back to the tickets, moved them around and returned telling us we were now number 4 and it would be about 10 more minutes.
That is just crazy for 2 reasons. No one's food is THAT good to wait 35 minutes from order to receipt of the food. [That's assuming he was right about the 10 minutes.] But worse, his actions showed the reason we had waited so long - waiters and waitresses could alter the order. That is preposterous. [I suspected this even before our waiter moved tickets around, when someone else sat at the counter long after we were there and was served within 5 minutes of sitting down. He must have been someone's favorite customer.]
I have been to many business breakfasts and political breakfasts during the week at Harry's. I will not be back. And, if someone suggest we meet at Harry's, be assured I will tell my story. As it is, I almost missed my flight. The food is good, but no food is that good. And, there is nothing that Harry's has that I can't find elsewhere.
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