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Default Amy's Baking Company - now what?


"jmcquown" > wrote in message
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> I've been keeping an eye on this place. It's fun to see a couple of
> morons who have absolutely no customer service skills try to gain
> popularity after their public meltdown on Kitchen Nightmares and the
> various social media sites.
>
> So what's going on? Fruit Flies.
>
> From a recent Yelp Review after the grand-reopening:
>
> http://www.yelp.com/biz/amys-baking-company-scottsdale
>
> "Since both of us thought that the meal wasn't that bad, we decided to
> order the "famous" deserts. I ordered a Key lime pie slice and my friend
> got some chocolate cake.
>
> Sammy brought the slices over to us and I noticed something odd.
>
> There were fruit flies. On the top of my key lime pie.
> Let me repeat that. Fruit flies. On top of my pie. Two of them. Just
> chilling there.
>
> I called Sammy back over and asked what was up with these little bugs in
> my cake and he went off about there being a bug problem and how someone
> was bringing them in to sabotage them or something. He also said it better
> not be me or my friend or he'd throw us both out. No comp, no new pie
> slice, nothing. I had to eat the price of my bug pie. Because he thought I
> put it there. We paid our overly expensive bill and left as quickly as
> possible."
>
> And also fruit flies in martinis!
>
> http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/region...-in-the-drinks
>
> A group which included a reporter who went to have dinner were accused of
> "planting" the flies in their drinks. Yeah, sure, everyone carries dead
> fruit flies around with them. Just to make a place look bad.
>
> Working as a server and a hostess, I've seen a lot of people try to scam
> free meals. The funniest was when someone told me a screw must have
> fallen out in the dishwasher and landed in the glass his drink came in.
>
> I don't know about you, but I place glassware in the dishwasher face down.
> They do that in restaurants, too. Was I supposed to believe the screw
> defied gravity and miraculously flew UP into the glass and stayed there?
> Not to mention, I think I'd have noticed a rather large screw in a glass
> of iced tea. Needless to say, these days this guy is probably carrying
> dead fruit flies around in his pocket.



This method could work

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jiBzTucY3A