On Fri, 07 Jun 2013 09:29:16 -0400, jmcquown >
wrote:
>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. 
>
>Jill
Shades of Virtor Victoria. LOL
koko
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