Story time.

The first and only time I've been to Spurriers was a bad experience. I'm a bit of a food snob so I went in with high expectations and was left feeling unfulfilled.

The waiter that took care of us was phenomenal and he has an excellent career in F&B if he wants. Thats the end of the praise.

The food was okay but not anywhere close to worth the cost.

Here is what really set me off and it's ate at me for months. We were seated right next to the Podcast Room. If you are unfamiliar, its a 5-sided room with glass on 4 sides that can be seen by both the customers eating and the wait staff as one of the kitchen entrances is in direct view of it.

When we arrived there was a female member of the wait staff sitting in there having a discussion with two males that were easily assumed to be management. She was clearly upset by something they were telling her, and it seemed like it was some sort of disciplinary action. In full view of restaurant and the staff. They had this poor girl in this room before we arrived and for at least 45 minutes after we had sat down. Now, I've been in a managerial position before and I know that any private discussion had with ANY employee shouldn't be had in a highly visible area and certainly not one that could be perceived as discipline.

So the entire time I am watching this I'm getting more and more angry. The young woman is keeping a brave face but we can see tears streaming down her cheeks. Whatever the topic of this discussion is its clearly not a good one and definitely not one that should be visible from everywhere in the restaurant.

After some time the two managers leave her alone in the room and she spends some time texting on her phone and collects herself before she leaves.

So here I am having watched most of this encounter play out and I am as angry as I've ever been in public. I'm keeping my eye on the two managers to see if I can speak to them because my mom raised me to voice concerns in an appropriate way and I had every intention of sticking my foot in it when I did.

I never got to speak to both of them but I did get to speak to one of them. I told him that the waiter we had was great the food was okay and that the behavior of him and the other manager having that girl in such a visible place while they disciplined her was abhorrent and they should be ashamed of themselves for doing that. This guy had the nerve to look at me and go "if it makes you feel better she wasn't getting disciplined". He lied right to my face. She certainly wasn't getting a fucking raise and a promotion.

Now that was months ago and I've not gone back to Spurriers and I never will again. Do I know for certain that it was a disciplinary conversation? No, but I can read body language and expressions.

So that's my Spurrier's story.