Problem: Write a negative (OPTIONS:
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A: Is my love for Houstons waning?! A much anticipated visit to the Phoenix "Houston's" turned out to be a disappointment. Hillstone is the parent company as well as a number of other restaurants such as Bandera (Chicago), Rutherford Grill (Napa Valley), and Woodmont Grill (Bethesda, MD). I once had an aspiration to visit every Houston's but am now reconsidering. Unfortunately, the Phoenix visit is where this reconsideration started. We went in for an early weekday lunch. Our server was polite but acted like he was being forced to be nice...fake enthusiasm with a lot of teeth showing. His enthusiasm didn't translate to familiarity with the menu. He told me that the kale chicken salad was like the regular chicken salad - somewhat accurate but much less helpful than explaining the differences to me when I told him that I had eaten the chicken salad many times. NOT the same in volume nor flavor. And I have more general angst against Hillstone/Houstons: - Rarely offer open table or other reservation system - No more off the menu classics but stil a limited number of menu selections - Wine selections have become more pedestrian over the years C'mon Hillstone...step up!
Q: negative

A: My boyfriend and I decided to try this place after finding out our first choice restaurant had a 60 to 90 min wait. Little did we know that we would end up waiting for 10 minutes before we were even given water and a chance to order, and another 50 minutes before our food would arrive. And the restaurant was only half full! After we finished eating, we called for the check and again, we were made to wait as we watched the guy who promised to bring us the check run around, refilling the potpourri bowl and ringing other customers up..basically doing anything but bringing us the check. I guess the food was decent enough. But I don't care how decent your food is, if you can't get your food out within a reasonable amount of time when your restaurant is only HALF full, then you've got an issue and you can forget about ever attracting your customers back. As such, we could have stayed at our first choice restaurant and still ended up eating at around the same time. We would also have saved on the gas money it took us to drive over to this place.
Problem: What would be an example of an positive (OPTIONS:
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Answer: Come to McCormick's for happy hour, which is one of the best in the area for happy hour specials. Prices did go up, which was disappointing. Drink specials could be a little cheaper/variety. I always get the burger for $5 (used to be $4) It's always good. Simple and tasty, great for $5. Comes with fries too. The other food on the happy hour bar menu is alright, nothing to rave about except cheaper prices. I always stick to happy hour here and go elsewhere for dinner. Oh- no more valet parking
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Output: Still love this place! I must say the Passion roll and the Panhandle roll are my current favorites. The Dancing eel is really good too. We will continue coming back!
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output: I've eaten lunch at Olive & Ivy on a number of occasions, including this week. The great service we received deserves a review. I have always enjoyed the atmosphere at this restaurant for a business lunch - relaxed, not stuffy, not too noisy (but not too quiet), attentive staff and pretty good and affordable food. This is why I choose it relatively frequently. When we sat down this time our waitress had difficulty answering a question. Immediately her colleague, who was within earshot, came over, as she was explaining that she was new on the job. He answered the question and also assisted her throughout the meal with several other questions about what was in the food (important due to allergy issues). As my colleague was enjoying his sandwich, he observed that there was not very much filling, although what was there tasted great. When they came by to ask how things were, he shared that comment, to which the response was "we'd be happy to provide more if you would like" - very good response. Later, when the bill came, we were told that our dessert was on the house for sharing our comments. Totally unexpected. An example of a great service attitude that more restaurants would be well to copy.
Problem: Write a negative (OPTIONS:
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A:
Let's make the difference between strip restaurants and off-strip restaurants clear. Strip restaurants have a captive audience who usually don't leave the casino. Strip restaurants revenue-share with the casino in exchange for valuable foot-traffic real estate. Because of this, they can and need to charge high prices for food and beverages. Off-strip restaurants do not have a captive audience. Either they attract locals, or they attract tourists who can travel away from the casinos. Off-strip restaurants need to work harder to attract a clientele than strip restaurants do. Because of this, they must offer something that strip restaurants do not. The thing that works the best is the equation of: Food and beverage as-good-as strip restaurants + a meaningfully lower price = business. That gives us some extraordinary off-strip restaurants like The Barrymore, Vintner Grill and Lotus of Siam, plus scores of restaurants in Chinatown, to mention a few. I'm sad to say that this "Vegas restaurant business 101" strategy has been entirely lost on 35 Steaks. Their prices are as high, and in some cases, higher than strip steakhouses, and the quality of meat is lower. The menu even makes it clear that some of their beef selections are "choice" and not "prime"; in other words, meat any of us can buy at a good butcher shop, not the best cuts reserved mostly for high-end restaurant buyers. I had the "Rossini" which is a nice piece of center rib-eye with some foie gras on top. I ordered it medium-rare bu it came out medium-well. Usually when a kitchen gets a steak wrong, it's a matter of one level; medium-rare to medium for example. Two levels off is simply shameful for a "high-end" steakhouse. The Hard Rock has enough trouble attracting people away from the strip, what with their casino being about the size of a video arcade, and an oddly claustrophobic layout. What would possess them to open a restaurant that has little or no chance of attracting diners away from the dozens of other choices that are better and in many cases less expensive? Ya got me. Which is more than I can say for 35 Steaks + Martinis.