StinkoBlog » bad service http://www.stinkoer.com/blog Stinkoer Than Thou Fri, 18 Jun 2010 13:08:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc Cherry Martini in Canton http://www.stinkoer.com/blog/2008/04/19/cherry-martini-in-canton/ http://www.stinkoer.com/blog/2008/04/19/cherry-martini-in-canton/#comments Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:42:55 +0000 grr http://www.stinkoer.com/blog/?p=10 We tried buying a round of drinks at Canton’s “Cherry Martini” martini bar a few weeks back.  We failed, or really, they failed.   They apparently have an unwritten/hidden rule where if you want to sit down you have to buy a bottle of booze.  You have to make a reservation first, to boot.  This works out pretty well, because there appeared to be only 2 drink menus in the whole place – who needs that when your table has committed to a single type of drink (oh, I guess you COULD order many bottles of booze)?  I should mention we found out about the reservation rule after being told that we couldn’t sit where we sat  the first time because it was reserved, and were directed to another location.  Shortly after, we were told that was reserved too.  They do have a bar area, but that’s not conducive for conversation among six people.

I guess this is how Puff Diddly-Daddy and his entourage do it in the big apple, and since that’s how Canton rolls, it’s a perfect policy to employ.  Especially when it’s the only bar in the “downtown” area it resides in.

To the waitress who cried after my brothers-in-law stated that the policy was stupid (especially since there were no “reserved” signs posted): please don’t take it personally.  Plymouth has a nice martini bar you can work out that doesn’t have policies in place to piss off potential customers.

The irony is we’d have probably have been in and out after our single round before the special guests arrived.

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