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Batman was wonderful. I'll get to him later. What was piss poor, as nearly all of our visits to the theaters are nowadays is the constant distraction of people texting and talking on the phone.

It's so bad I have to ask them to stop. I don't like to. Don't get me wrong it's not a embarrassment thing it's a real worry that someone's asshole boyfriend, husband or even worse parents will cause a scene which turns ugly and I can't afford ugly.

I can usually live with it, Batman is 2 hours 30 and tonight I just couldn't. So these rude asses are bad enough. The theaters are worse. I've been pretty loyal to Harkins since they don't have no firearms signs and their popcorn adornments are great. They don't seem to be a stingy on the light and soundproofing as the AMC ones out on the periphery ( THX my ass) On the occasions I've complained it's been more annoying than just walking out.

They claim policy is walk 5 mins in , then 15 mins at the start to intervene with people on their phones. Er no, I had 3 "fireflies" in my sight nearly the entire time, then the calls. These people take money to provide an experience that we're getting close to , in all but time, doing in the home. To our mind no one checked, or if they did it was cursory. I think I'm tired of paying a premium for a shitty service. Why has no theater chain created a tier of guaranteed interuption free cell phone removed clients? It should pay for itself all the people I've talked to go to less movies than they want to based on the climate at most theaters. I'll let you know if we get any response out of Harkins. As you can see from their contact page email is not an option :(

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I swear my fellow diners at hospital canteens look in better shape than the mass that "meats" for late lunch at this location. This wasn't just a gray tide but a few human buoys had popped in too. Please withhold the " don't be so judgmental" holier than though attitude , this is a review after all.

Lately I have been working remotely ( or remotely working) on the Friday so I've been going out on Fridays for lunch since it's all "new" to me. The same places that I eat out at in the evening often have vastly different characters during the day and this Black Angus throws it into sharp relief. For example at night I have never been served stale bread.

Have a wide range of ages , group sizes and noise levels and there's some life in the place. Chilis that just opened up nearby and seems to have kidnapped the life leaving a quiet, genteel even , location that would be more fitting in the deep south when you don't have anything better to do. So far this is the only local place that exceeded my hour.

Food's ok , fitting with the price range and the burgers are well appointed, cooked to request and relatively tasteful. Fries tepid and it feels likelike the minimums you have to do to keep the blue rinse and Caddy driving class happy is all they are about. The only thing hip about this place is the replacement joints.

Coffee seems to have been held on life support and brought out when some unsuspecting fool that refuses to believe in coffee only being a morning drug. Usually the surroundings don't bug me but it felt like the Hometown Buffet , which I can live with until you give me stale bread past it's sell by date which I fear may a fitting epitaph for this place within daylight hours

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Update post This franchise decided that on a Mother's day that having two front of house staff, one on his third day is acceptable staffing for a busy period. They had no milk, there was no coffee, we had to get our own silverware, petition for menu and then go get our sugar ( this is all small stuff but when you realize that's what we pay for it becomes annoying,) Finally get an order in and the order was not matching the description. Their garlic pizza has Alfredo sauce, this one came with tomato which doesn't agree with Erin. So let's ask them to change it. Oops they say we don't have Alfredo sauce either. At this point I was just fed up and asked to see someone. It went badly , seemingly we should know that their pizza when ordered by the slice is always tomato and that the waiter told us otherwise , and that we believed him, is something we should basically accept and eat. The story changed to say we do have the sauce but that it's not available by the slice. No effort made to correct it and by the time she decided to argue with my wife it was a case of I'll pay for the drinks, salad we had and leave. She said ok , then turned round and in front of the other customers basically said , no , why don't you just go, or you can go now. Either way it was about as unprofessional as I've seen. I understand two staff will get stressed trying to handle this but the management put them into that position . They know they don't have staff, they know to order enough milk, ( not like Fry's grocery isn't next door) and they can't make coffee? ) They should know never to berate the customer for requesting an item to match that on the menu. All in all until an under new management sign appears or their franchisee is kicked into shape I'd avoid dining in at this place Streets of New York :: Pizza • Pasta • Subs