Problem: Write a positive (OPTIONS:
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- positive) yelp review.
A: I have been here many many times over the years but this review isn't about those times because I really don't remember them well enough to give a solid Yelp. Anyway, this review is about their Stein Club. My wife is a sucker for signing up for clubs that charge a few bucks a year and in return you get membership card and a few perks here and there. Gordon Biersch has such a club and of course we just had to join. I mean you get a membership card! You also get some other misc. perks like reward points when you dine at any GB that you can exchange for some pretty cool stuff provided you spend about $10,000 for food over time. It is something to strive for I guess. All kidding aside, there are some really great benefits for being a Stein Club member. For the membership fee of 20ish dollars per year (I think that's how much it was), you also get invited to free beer tastings, tapping parties, release parties, etc. They are only for Stein Club members and they give you plenty of beer and tasty appetizers. There are only about 20 or so members that show up to the Tempe location events so it is not too crowded. There is always plenty of food and beer to go around. They normally have their pizzas, garlic fries and wings out. My favorite are the wings. Although I may never earn enough points to get some of the cool stuff they offer, I take full advantage of their free food and beer and it is definitely worth the small membership fee. Yesterday was the pre-release tapping party of their Alt Bier. The beer was excellent and you could pretty much have all you wanted. As always Dieter, the head brewer, was there. He is a super chill guy that basically has the coolest job in the world. He is at all the events and is pretty much the Yoda of all things beer and is open to answering any questions you may have. I could have continued to eat the wings, fries and pizza all night but my wife and the other people we were with wanted to order a more proper dinner. I had the mushroom and swiss burger. It was a decent size but was ok at best. The side salad I got was ok too. I also have to bring up one of their new menu items, the "Housemade Tacos". Though I did not order or try them, another member of our party did. When they came out I almost started laughing. They are honestly the double decker tacos that Taco Bell used to have years ago (or still have, I'm not sure). The tacos were blue corn taco shells wrapped in a flour tortilla. WTF!! Inside the double taco was some kind of fish topped with a real heavy sauce. That part honestly didn't look too bad, but I just couldn't get over the double taco.

Problem: Write a negative (OPTIONS:
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- positive) yelp review.
A: I am so sorry that I didn't take a picture of the cheese enchilada that was served to us. It was the sorriest enchilada I have ever seen. Maybe a quarter of an inch thick, with cheap cheese that melted into liquid grease. 100% unappetizing, and they wanted to charge three dollars for a single one. No sides or anything. Meanwhile I got their Thursday $5 special, the carne asada. It at least had a proper portion size. But the meat was chewy and tasted almost old. Beans tasted pretty good, but rice was very mediocre. The waitress insisted that everything is fresh and they go to the market every morning for supplies. If that's the case, then they've figured out how to take fresh ingredients and capture that mysterious and elusive 'slightly outdated' flavor that's so hard to achieve with fresh food. I only managed two or three bites before giving up. The chips were alright but nothing amazing. We got two rounds of them, and the second round tasted fresher than the first. Salsa was alright-ish but lacked sophistication, and had a slight burn in the back of the throat that managed to drag on and on. Top this off with the water tasting either like tap or like their filter had gone out. We both drank from my tea, just to mask the dubiousness. So far this is completely in 'Eek!' territory, so why 2 stars instead of 1? The waitress that day was great. But she's apparently one of the bartenders and was just covering for the Maribel's staff today while they were short. She was extremely understanding, and took off both the terrible enchilada and the disappointing carne asada. We left without being charged, but we still happily left a tip. And really, there were other patrons here who seemed to be quite happy with what they were getting, so I'm very confused about how lousy this was for us. I remember reading over these yelp reviews and wondering how you end up seeing a bunch of 4 and 5 star ratings and then an intermittent 1 or 2. I've definitely had a 1 or 2 experience today. Not sure if I'll ever return to try for a 4 or 5.

Problem: Write a positive (OPTIONS:
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- positive) yelp review.
A:
20 cents here, 25 cents there, 35 cents... 99 cents... and before you know it, $10 of freakin' candy all for myself. Dang, how did I let that happen? Easy. I went to Sweeties and walked through each aisle. I like that they sold lots of candies individually and also in little bags or big bulks. Sometimes, people just want a little sample of each (like me). I couldn't help but smile when I saw some of my old school favs: Sixlets, Chic-O-Sticks, Abba Zabba, Peanut Butter Bars, Warheads, Now and Laters, fake bubble gum cigarettes, rock candy, pixie sticks, pop rocks, and on and on and on.... They even have candies from way back when, you know, with the wax paper wrappers around them. They also have a big collection of Pez, M&Ms sold in bags of a single solid color, 5 different flavors of candy corn... oh and get this... individually wrapped jelly beans! How cool is that? Basically, you need to scope this place out for yourself and you'll catch my drift!