Kicked out of K-Mart

[Dave's Not Here Man]

Was a great joke by a very funny comedian named John Fox who usally followed that joke up with "fired from McDonald's"...."said my pimples weren't big enough"...."looks like you been bobbong for french fries back there, Toby". I've posted his genius Archibald Barisol bit for you guys several times over the years.

Anyway, I've been banned from the Den Of Iniquity. It's not the first time but it's probably the most interesting. What did I do? you might ask. Well, I made a comment on one of the server's facebook page about their charging $7.50 for the "happy hour nacho bar" on Fridays. The comment was "Even getting diarrhea is more expensive these days"... obviously meant as a joke. So when I was about to head up for lunch yesterday, I texted another server to see if she was working, or I wasn't going if not. She called me back and said "Rob said he doesn't want you in here anymore" and told me the reason. Rob Oh is the GM. You've probably heard the name since he was a big deal DJ in the area before being hired to look intimidating at the door of HTC and somehow, God only knows, put in management by the former owner of HTC. A guy who bans people because of bad reviews and jokes on facebook. He'll be gone just like all the ones before him but unlike them, I'd almost like to help see this one through. Thought about going up there with the phone recording him telling me to my face instead of passing the word through a $2.35 an hour waitress. But decided to take the L and make it a W by not letting it get in my airspace as there are PLENTY of establishments nearby that would love to have my money in their pockets and don't run off regulars with impunity.

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Man, I hate NextDoor, but this is the type of pettiness it was designed for!

Would be great to take a screenshot of the review, then note that you've been told you've been banned and ask what type of thin-skinned dickhead does that over a bad review?
And note WHERE you recommend people take their business.

[Dave's Not Here Man]

The post was deleted when I went back to check. So either the girl deleted it or, more likely, her boss told her to take it down from HER FACEBOOK PAGE, because I didn't make the comment on THE BUSINESS'S page/s.

I considered going up there with my camera rolling... and make that motherfucker famous. But since the person/server he was brave enough to have pass the word is a good friend, I don't want to do anything that he takes out on her (or her bf, that works there p/t). 

Oh and it wasn't a review but this is- 

(google review)


A nasty dump you'll smell like an ashtray and need to wash your clothes and shower at least twice after you leave. Food has gone way downhill, expensive, like $13 for a salad, and there are flying bugs like crazy. Some servers are great others will let you rot at your table waiting for them to acknowledge your presence. The current GM shouldn't be allowed to manage a DIY carwash let alone a bar. He thinks he and the establishment is above criticism. He deals with it by having the $2.35/hr employees handle unhappy customers and bans people for making jokes about it on facebook. Take your hard earned money where it's appreciated and where they are always striving to do and be better, unlike the swirling contents of a toilet that is HTC.
Food: 1
Service: 3
Atmosphere: 1

[Dave's Not Here Man]

I did one several years back that I can't find after a tiff with another former gm. I remember it saying something like "where local legends perform random acts of drunkenness while scantily clad single moms with aftermarket bosoms serve up the eye candy and bud light"...

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OMG, that review is fantastic!

[Dave's Not Here Man]

A good friend of mine goes up there on the regular, mainly because he's the guy that goes in and sells the gambling machines, but likes to have lunch (he doesn't drink) and talk to one of the bartenders that has been there since forever. When I talked to him the other day and told him about this he said that the GM was bragging to him recently about how good their numbers are and they didn't even need the machines under his divine management skills. Now bear in mind that I've heard of him saying he could "get ANY band to play there".... um, no, no you can't get ANY band to play there, Rob. Anyway my buddy said he just nodded his head because he comes in there often and sees the dozens of people feeding those machines and guess what? That's right, buying food, buying drinks, and putting money not only in the machines but in the cask registers. He also, I assume, makes a %age of the take otherwise he'd not even be in that business.

I have this dude not lasting a real long time before either the financials don't reflect his confidence, and/or the new owner that bought the place right before Christmas, brings in someone to literally turn the place around. The new owner has at least one other of the franchise locations, not sure which one/ones and obviously didn't want to make big changes right away as to upset what if nothing else, a working structure in place. Otherwise it truly is a shithole.

The smell of cigarette smoke almost knocks you down when you open that second set of doors. Sticky floors. Fruit flies or something like them have been an ongoing issue for years. Several of the servers will just ignore you on the bar side. You DO NOT want to be there after a certain time of day on any day but as I understand it, they are having similar problems that has literally shut down other places around town- fights and shit, large "groups" of people gathering in the parking lot to rumble, etc on the weekends.