text: Having come from the East where Mellow Mushroom started I am pretty wellacquainted with the food from this place Interesting thing is that Mellow Mushrooms franchising availability used to be hushhush so there were not so many of them and those wishing to start one apparently had to jump through hoops just to inquire about it Semiinteresting stories aside since they have blownup and made it so far as Phoenix the quality of the business has gone down nnCaseinpoint The Tempe locationnnThis is the biggest Mellow Mushroom I have ever seen and it is got a nice inviting atmosphere That is until your waitress is at your table immediately upselling things before she even asks your drink order My wife and I were so baffled what she said did not even register until a few moments went by something about having some very specific beers or something not Would you like a beer to start things off More like Would you like to start of with A Kirin Ichiban which is renowned in Japan for its malted deliciousness or how about a more garbled overthetop mess so we were just looking at her in awkward confusion I get it is part of being a waitress and she is probably told to do it but have some tact about it eh nnNext bit of fun the menu Most of the Mellow offerings I am used to with a few Phoenix originals one pie having chorizo stuff like that but wow The prices are ridiculous for a cheese calzone And it is not even organic or anything for a pint ONE PINT I have not even hit yet and I feel like I am talkin about the good old days where a pint might cost or maybe even but nah this pricings just robberynnAnyway I quit my mental griping about prices and ordered the pie If you have never had Mellow before the best way to describe it is breadlike with a touch of molasses with that freshlybaked taste Toppings are good but really the crust does it for me and today was no exception nnStill the constant and ridiculous upsells from our waitress coupled with her pretty much rushing us continually looking at our table from afar at one point dropping the check on the table with a very nonsubtle and possibly ironic Here is your check no rush or anything because we were not ordering a ton of crap do they get commission or something and ignoring our simple requests asked for napkins twice got none but hey we did get an offer to get some sort of cake put in the oven now so it could be ready when we were done eating I love upsells makes me definitely not want to come to this place again Given the new and improved pricing of Mellow Mushroom I probably will not be going to any one of these places againnnWhat a ripoff