I think regulars are treated differently than customers. I see some
of that at my local tea shoppe. My biggest disappointment based on
recommendations in this group Imperial Tea Court Ferry Building San
Francisco. Burn me once shame on you, burn me twice shame on me.

Jim

PS What makes a tea shoppe sucessful are other factors than making
everyone feel special. Hell ITC was incapable of selling tea.

wrote:
> my son, his fiancee, and myself were looking forward to visiting the
> tea gallery on allen street today-
>
> our experience was less than satisfactory- i had heard so many good
> things about this teashop-but we were very disapponted-
>
> instead of being graciously invited into the tea shop we were treated
> rather rudely-we wanted to have a cup of tea-this was not offered to
> us-we
> were asked f we wanted tea tastng at $24 --we did not want anything
> for free
> this was not what we were expectng-Michael Plant and friends always
> have good things to say about the the tea gallery-
>
> we left and wlll not return-
>
> joanne r. aka jpr54_