Rebecca McLaughlin
99 Reasons to NOT go to the 99.
Before you may think Im being mean or that I am a Karen, please let me elaborate. It is both with a heavy heart and sadness, but people should know.
Both me and my family have been big fans of the 99 since they opened the first ones. It always was a great place for almost any occasion. You always knew the food would be great dine in or take out. The standards were high across the board. The menus and everything looked great, we were actually really excited about this meal because it was for family and Christmas. We never thought it would be this horrible and our very misrerable waitress made me us all so feel rushed. She made us feel kind of like we were bothering her. I said "hey, maybe she had a long day or something personal happened or Maybe she is just not feeling the holiday spirit today". I asked for a Pepsi, no Pepsi no idea why, but we really felt like she was less than thrilled to be there and it felt like I was holding up the whole table because she didn't give me the option to even come back to me after I looked at the many options for drinks on the menu as fast as I could. So okay, We had a Gluten free family member with us. I got the Ice Blue Wedge and some seafood chowder that sounded amazing, my man got the King Tips and fries, and one member got a specialty burger . We have a Gluten free family member who absolutely cannot have carbs. It got confusing. Dietary restrictions are a matter of life and death for many people and not a fad, but hey once again maybe she didn't know. We completely felt like we were putting her out at this point and it was weird to see a whole table of waitstaff just doing nothing. Maybe that's why our waitress seemed so over this. Idk. The food came out fast. Too fast. Which to me means it was microwaved but hey maybe it tasted amazing, no big deal.
The awful inedible truth of it.The food. I'm paraphrasing because these are limited. I got my seafood chowder and ice blue wedge in front of me, and my bfs food, the King tips we know and love was put on the table. I know exactly how bad inflation is, but this got
just unacceptable. It looked like 5 pieces of very dry meat so and they looked sad, they were smothered, it had maybe 2 or 3 slices of mushrooms so paper thin you could not pick them up with a fork, so they stayed on the plate. My bf and share food so I ate a tip and it was like luke warm bubble gum. A tiny pile of 7-8 very sad looking fries came with it. The fries were so cold and gross, its was not edible, McDonald's could do it better. I tried my soup, it was cool, I stirred it a bit and tried again, hoping I guess, and it was oddly too hot, so it was microwaved. Fine. But not edible. The shrimp mushy and barely there, and 1, uno, of the worst scallop I have ever had was floating in it. It was cut so thin, just rubber and tasted like old fish or something so gross, my bf tried it too, inedible. So I didn't get to eat anything and I left it all. The burger for the Gluten free family was light years away from the juicy burgers they used to make. She said Medium and got close to raw. Not edible. The specialty burger was a plate filled with grease and burger dry and gross. We did not complain because we didn't want to bother our waitress at that point. They have gotten so bad, idk if they could come back from this oh and TP in a ladies room is would be helpful, we cant "shake it off". Save your money, its inedible, microwave hot garbage. Such a sad day. And why is there one waitress working and 4 sitting at a table doing absolutely nothing. Not eating, not on break..so sadly an institution is now a horrible place. At this rate by next year, no will come back, I know we wont.
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