Trader Vic's Returns to San Francisco - General Tiki

K Kono Member Orlando Joined: Oct 08, 2003 Posts: 1266	K Kono Posted posted on Mon, Jan 17, 2005 5:23 PM Tiki-bot, I don't know why your experience was so different than mine but last weekend the stars (pun intended) were in alignment and everything was A-OK. The reviewer did outright lie in my opinion. Two examples: it was absolutely no sweat getting a reservation and they did not treat me poorly being that I am not recognizable. The manager talked to me at length, I was actually kind of wanting him go away at one point. Maybe ZebraTiki's on to something. Maybe I look like trouble so they pay attention to me. Nah. I will add this though: We bought some items (oil lamp, t-shirt, a couple of bar mugs) so we had this big bag of goodies sitting on the table. We asked the waiter if we could have a menu. He said "sure" so we stuck two menus in the bag. He was cool. Mr Manager comes over and starts talking to us (yet again) and reaches over and pulls the menus halfway out of the bag like he caught us or something. I'm like yeah dude, as much as I spent you better not even think about sweating those menus. So I said "Yeah they gave us a couple of menus at the Chicago TVs and now we have two from here." He let it go. That was as close to uncool as things ever got. So yeah, maybe they did think I was trouble! :lol:

Tiki-bot, I don't know why your experience was so different than mine but last weekend the stars (pun intended) were in alignment and everything was A-OK. The reviewer did outright lie in my opinion. Two examples: it was absolutely no sweat getting a reservation and they did not treat me poorly being that I am not recognizable. The manager talked to me at length, I was actually kind of wanting him go away at one point.

Maybe ZebraTiki's on to something. Maybe I look like trouble so they pay attention to me. Nah.

I will add this though: We bought some items (oil lamp, t-shirt, a couple of bar mugs) so we had this big bag of goodies sitting on the table. We asked the waiter if we could have a menu. He said "sure" so we stuck two menus in the bag. He was cool. Mr Manager comes over and starts talking to us (yet again) and reaches over and pulls the menus halfway out of the bag like he caught us or something. I'm like yeah dude, as much as I spent you better not even think about sweating those menus. So I said "Yeah they gave us a couple of menus at the Chicago TVs and now we have two from here." He let it go. That was as close to uncool as things ever got. So yeah, maybe they did think I was trouble! :lol:

Post #136040 by Kono on Mon, Jan 17, 2005 5:23 PM