JG1222
I agree with you about the quality of their food - especially the Lasagna!
Sadly, I and many other people at my marina have decided that even Barry's wonderful cooking is not worth the risk of being publicaly humiliated again by Karen. She has done this to groups of us twice in the past few weeks.
The first time was because too many of us (a whopping nine!) came in at once. After the meal, Karen publically reprimanded us
for not having made reservations, and told us not to show up again as a group without doing so. (Would she have done that if we'd showed up as three separate groups a few minutes apart? Since many of us have been going there often, that's happened frequently. She generally offers to put us together, if tables are available. What's the difference?
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The second time was last weekend, when two couples and a family of four that was visiting one of them decided to give it another try. This time, per Karen's ultimatum, reservations were phoned in (two hours in advance). At the conclusion of the meal Karen loudly slapped down a sign calling for a 17% gratuity to be added to the bill for large groups and publically called attention to it. Again, an unwarrented public humiliation! (Plus, we never tip less than 20%, and usually it's more like 25%.)
None of us ever plan to set foot in there again.
Silver Duck