Dinning in East Tennessee - the bad and the good of it!!!

Yesterday after my PT session for my shoulder, I needed to go to Wal-Mart and wanted to go to eat... So I decided to try the Gondolier Italian Restaurant and Pizza a new place near the Wal-Mart..... Here is the e-mail I just sent to their corporate offices, after all, they do business in 5 states!!!!

I am writing to complain about the service I received yesterday at your Johnson City store. Actually it should be the service I did not receive.

I walked in for lunch at about 11:30 AM on Friday. I was seated and looked at the menu. I decided what I wanted to eat. Ten minutes later no one had been to my table. The hostess went by to seat some people and I ask her if anyone was working this section. She said she would send them right out. The people she seated received immediate service. I sat there for another 5 minutes and no one came to my table. So I left. I will never return and I will never eat at any of your stores. It’s really too bad, I love to eat out and I am a very good tipper.

Cheers, my name

PS: I am a professor at the local university and will be telling all my students about my dining experience, or rather lack of it.

I do not expect one thing from them, but I feel better now.................

The joke around here since I moved here in the mid 80s is that the food is good but the service is not that great!!!

Well, that was the bad - Here is the good -

I have to say that is not always the case. Last night we went out to dinner with our friends Marie and Dennis.. We went to a local place called Cootie Browns.... We were seated and immediately served by a cheery helpful waitress... The food was good, the company was better, we had a really nice evening.... Unfortunately, I spent more space telling you about my bad experience then I did about my good experience...... but the day ended on a positive note and life goes on!!!

I hope you have a nice weekend in blog land or where ever you are.... and remember, take good care of yourself so you can take good care of another........ Peace, john