- Chili's Grill & Bar - I've been seeing their commercials on TV for quite some time so I was really excited to visit this Resto. We waited 2 weeks after it opened to finally visit it so it isn't TOO busy and we went early, about 1130am on a Saturday, let's just say that we were there early enough to see tables available just waiting for customers to sit down, or so we thought. We walked in and there was a line forming already from inside because we didn't particularly look like they were ready. We were 3rd in line and we ended up watching the staff run around like chickens with their heads cut off for about 30 minutes. Even the obvious "Manager" was just their talking to their staff looking at clipboards, papers, monitors, completely ignoring the fact that their customers were right behind them waiting to be seated while seeing that there were tables available. When we finally sat down it took awhile before anyone came over to take our orders. I was listening in and observing the tables around us and on the table behind us there was a family that waited awhile for their drinks, and to my right was another family. To make a long story short, it was TOO obvious that the personnel at this Chili's had biased treatment towards "certain" people based what? I don't know but I was the brownest individual in the area and I pretty much got ignored while the table behind us got asked 500 times (exaggeration) by 4 or 5 different staff how everything was and if they needed anything then they would proceed to walk by us totally ignoring us. Wow. Toward the end, the only positive was that me man PJ who brought out our food and talked to us saved the whole experience for me. So if you're not the Preferred type or form factor, PJ will take care of you of that I'm sure. So here it is: Overall First Impression Grade: C-
- Hooters Guam - I was excited to go here for obvious reasons, the Wings! ;) Seriously though I appreciate the female form and their symmetry as much as I appreciate good food, so you can imagine how excited I was that Hooters was coming to Guam. When a bunch of friends asked me to meet them there even before the place was 2 weeks old I was like, .. uhh.. OK! =) You could tell I was hesitant. When we got there, there was a long line outside but boy was I glad I was late, which meant my friends already had a table and were already inside, yes! A couple of things that noticed were that the ventilation of the resto was not too good. First of all it was hot inside which could mean the aircon is weak or the lighting is too hot (we had to turn some lights away from us), and their sound system was an iPod connected to a cable hopefully temporarily placed up above our table on some piping.. things that make you go hmmm... The Wings were pretty good and the girls were OK but I do want to say something about the girls outfits. 1 word: Upgrade. Well that can also be considered 2 words but hey, I'm trying to make a point here. The Hooters Girls outfits are Not flattering, well,.. maybe to the "Hooters" but not much anything else. I think the problem is that the outfits have not been updated since the inception of the Restaurant and it no longer has the same effect as it did in the olden days. Their outfits remind me of Roller Disco, Farah Fawcett and Daisy Duke. Again, time for an upgrade. Overall First Impression Grade: B
These of course are not my final grades, these are merely based on 1 visit, and I'll let you know if anything changes. I'm actually making a 2nd trip to one of them on Monday so let's see if anything changes.
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