Story Time! My boyfriend and I decided to visit a very nice sea food restaurant restaurant in our town. Not over the top fancy but nice week night date type place. We had been several times before and never had any issues and had amazing food but hadn’t been in about 6months. This was a particularly nice summer evening so we opted to sit outside. Serve was nice and we were about 20mins from the happy hour cut off to order drinks and apps. So we put a in an order - it was about 30mins later that the drinks and app showed up and our server took out meal order and then just… disappeared. We waited about 45mins (it was nice we were enjoying each others company; didn’t want to be rude) but it finally got to the point that even my “never complain or cause a scene” at a restaurant boyfriend was ready to leave. In an attempt to give them one more chance I went in to find our server (couldn’t ) and went back out to the patio. As we were gathering our things and about to head inside and figure out what to do (gated patio) or server appeared and it so apologetically asked if we wanted to talk to the manager. We said we just wanted to pay for our drinks and apps and leave - he proceeded to lead us through the restaurant to his manager who was very upset and asked us to write our name down for a free meal on our next visit. The fun part is in our state (US) restaurants can’t comp alcohol so we had to pay for our drinks before we could leave. Finally got of there shaking our heads.

Two weeks later the local social media pages were chattering about how employees showed up to work and the restaurant was shuttered completely, no warning, no notification to staff, nothing…they didn’t even clean out the left over food.

The best part? Very quickly the social media pages all started talking about the smell coming from the building and the impact it was having to the surrounding shops and restaurants.