3 April 2011

Breakfast: at the Pancake house for

• SOS over hash brown potatoes
• some bacon
• a bisquit with grape jelly and
• coffee

The service was poor because this restaurant was quite crowded. None the less, since we were two of many who took the buffet, the two waitress should have had time to come around with coffee a lot more than they did!

My wife felt sorry for "our" waitress and over tipped her. For the "gift" of coffee, I thought a $2 tip was fine; she insisted on giving "our" waitress $3.

I'm not normally tight with tips. If we had ordered off the menu, I would have been willing to tip higher; if we'd gotten coffee refills without me having to wave my hand and finally, wave my coffee cup (which is rude, I admit), I would not have minded a $3 tip (or even higher). :-(

Lunch:  at El Zarpatia, the "new" Mexican place. I recently bad mouthed them based on their being busy and crowded during a buffet on Tuesday. Today, we ordered off the menu and

• the food was much better,
• the service was much better (especially when compared with breakfast) and
• our waitress topped off our drinks before they were empty.

So, I recommend this place and repent my earlier bad recommendation.  I had:

• their Supreme meal and
  
• the free order of desert and
• Diet Coke

Dinner: A Healthy Choice meatloaf meal and water

Snack: a co-worker brought in a tamalis and they were quite nice.