text: My friends were all excited to go to Thai Elephant after going kayaking on Tempe Town Lake We got there around and the server did not take our order until around We were brought out small portions of cold food my dish was the drowned noodles and it was terrible but I tried some other dishes and they were ok but not amazing or anything and no silverware or any of the drinks that were ordered we had to remind our server During the long wait for our food one of the people in our group spilled a water and we had to clean it up all by ourselves with no help from any staff Our server was right behind the host stand and did not offer to come over and help After our meal we waited minutes for our check If my friends did not object I would have just left The worst part was that since we were a large group a mandatory gratuity was added I have no problem with that normally after all a big group is more work for the server but our server was so horrible I would NEVER have tipped him and I am usually a very generous tippernnThis was a very disappointing meal for me and everyone in my group For the first half of the meal some of the group were making excuses for the bad service there is only one server we are a big group so our orders are probable confusing maybe it is his first day or something but by the end we were all so annoyed and no one plans to go back