sad thing is - this note could be taped to the door at almost any dining establishment in Seattle.

I just remembered why I stopped going there about eight years ago. As far as I know, they're still fixing the sandwich I ordered...

I guess it'll never be ready now.

@1, you beat me to it.

But honesty is refreshing in business. Starbucks should post the same sign in their stores as well!

What balls the writer has, taping the note to the diner after it's closed. If we're not the passive-aggressive capital of the world, who is?

@4, How dare you? We're just going to have to create a task force to look into that.

@1, @3 -- I think it's interesting that I've never received bad service in a restaurant, here or elsewhere, but I have many, many times watched other people around me receive it. Why do you think that is?

@6 - Wicked burn

Yup, that's why I was pretty glad to see Minnie's leave Broadway, and am not sad to see it leave Belltown, as well. Fuck them and their garlic potatoes. The tomato soup was the only reason to go there anyway...

This is very true, or at least it was the last time any of my friends went to Minnie's.

I should have done this to 1200 Bistro.

@6
It's because your shining karmic radiance emanates out to servers making them shower you with good service, while others fail to emit the right karmic rays.
On a bigger scale, this is why orphans die in Bolivia and women who look at guys are stoned in Saudia Arabia, too. They just didn't read the Law of Attraction / Calvinism screeds about the Elect....so they deserve what they get. Other side of same coin: you deserve your good fortune, and better service, too!

Minnie's should have died long before it did. I guess there are a bunch of masochistic diners in Seattle who didn't have the desire to go somewhere that served good food with a good attitude.

Osteria la Spiga will meet the same fate eventually and then we can turn that magnificent space into a cool gay bar!

@6 It's all the BJs.

Did you also notice the sign redirecting patrons to the Hurricane? FTW!

Has anyone heard what's going in there? The windows have all been covered for a while so I can't tell if anything is happening.

I heard it's reopening as a similar, American-style type of place.

Speaking of 1200 Bistro...

I saw a guy in there the other day walking around the space with some sort of deSIGNer (as Tim Gunn would say). Fabric or wallpaper swatches in hand.

Does anyone know what's coming there?

@6 - It's because you say "No Worries" whenever they make a mistake, and they are so ecstatic that you didn't tear them a new one, you get fantastic service for the duration.

@16 - Hopefully minus the tweaker servers.

Perfect.

And this is different from every other "hip" establishment in town how? We seem to have a plethora of service personnel in this town who are far too cool to trouble themselves with waiting on lowly customers.

Bring back the automat.

Automats are cool.

I work at this soul sucking establishment for 5 long years,the most stressful restaurant job I ever had.The only reason anyone stayed there was the 100-300 $$$ a night. Kudos to the author but I doubt they know exactly how many levels of funny because its true their note was.

The servers at the Taco Del Mar in Pioneer Square always treat me great.

@20: Or the problem that this town offers up such a plethora of asshole customers who are blind to the fact that they are not the only people in the restaurant and as such they expect their service staff to offer them up the world on a solid gold platter while getting their shoes shined and their asses wiped... All for a whopping 10% tip...

Sweet! Now maybe they can afford to move into that gorgeous new barely-soggy cardboard produce box that they just tossed in the dumpster behind the QFC on Braodway! You are practically a saint oh high and mighty restaurant patron!

@18 is closest.

I genuinely like restaurant servers, appreciate how difficult their job is and how hard they work at it, and treat them with friendly easy-going respect. The world's not going to come to an end if they misheard something or my coffee is a minute late. A smile goes a long ways, too.

That tomato soup pulled me through many a hangover.

Let us have a moment of silence to honor the tasty goodness that was Minnie's Tomato Soup.
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Thank you.

" I guess there are a bunch of masochistic diners in Seattle who didn't have the desire to go somewhere that served good food with a good attitude."

And where might that be in this "world class city" at 3AM?

I'm going to miss the omelettes.

@24, the only person where with good service is the owner. He's perpetually bossing the other employees around because they just don't get it. One time one of the guys there stopped in the middle of my burrito to take a personal phone call. When he returned, he didn't change his gloves after manhandling the phone handset. The owner caught it before I said anything, told him to change his gloves and wadded up my tortilla and got me another one. To this day, all that guys does is steam tortillas. No doubt for a reason.