I’d like to speak to the manager!!!

At the new restaurant we offer valet parking.

Well.

To park in our lot you have to valet.

The reason is simple.

To have enough parking for all of our guests we have to control the lot.

We also have to double stack cars.

So we require you to valet to park there.

However.

We don’t require you to valet to dine with us.

There are other areas to park.

The street.

The parking on the pier.

You’d think based on response that we were charging you a million dollars to park there.

Last week we had a woman lose her mind and refuse to give the valet her keys.

He and I both are pretty sure it was because of the color of his skin.

It was a late model Subaru.

On Saturday a family comes in outraged that they have to valet. They’ve been coming for years and never had to valet before.

And the valet is rude because he wouldn’t just let them park their own car.

Tonight a woman comes in furious that she had to valet.

She says we are trying to make the restaurant fancy.

She is the angriest of all.

She’s been coming to this restaurant for years.

She says it 12 times.

I finally say we e only been open 7 weeks so that can’t be true.

She then proceeds to tell me in the past you just checked in with the kid in the booth.

I explain we are managing the kit to keep people from parking there who aren’t dining with us and to maximize parking.

She’s having none of it.

When she’s was sharing her outrage with the baker her responded the only constant is change and that was the rudest thing ever.

She won’t stop.

Finally she’s led to her table.

3 minutes later she is back.

She and her family announce they don’t like the vibe of the restaurant.

I ask her to explain.

She says the valet.

Then they were taken to table and asked to move and was told no. Even though the restaurant is empty.

(She wasn’t told no. She was told the server had to check with the host).

She goes on and on.

She says over and over the old restaurant was better. The it was not like this before.

Finally she says that they had a better attitude.

I respond they also had rats.

She looks at me and says did you really just say that.

I reply.

I’m serious. The walls were full of them.

We discovered this during the renovation.

She huffed out.

I still don’t know why someone who drives a Subaru won’t valet.

Meanwhile he parks Maseratis, Porsches, even a Lamborghini.

But not a Subaru.