Darren72 wrote:spiffytriphy wrote:For BYOB restaurants, is it customary to charge a corkage fee to everyone in your dinner party regardless of whether or not everyone drinks? My brothers and I weren't sure if that's just protocol so we didn't say anything, but I'm just curious for the future when we dine out. Thanks!
My recollection is that Great Lake charges a "recycling fee" of $2 per bottle. Is that different from what you were charged?
spiffytriphy wrote:Oh ok! We were charged $2.50 three times on the receipt. Maybe I interpreted it wrong and it was because a total of three 12oz beers were consumed? Oppps my bad!!! Now I feel dumb lol
I spent a great deal of time making sure the door was close to their EXACT specifications
robert40 wrote:I spent a great deal of time making sure the door was close to their EXACT specifications
Is there another option other then open or closed?
mhill95149 wrote:Great pizzas but totally lacking in any customer service
mhill95149 wrote:I wish I had read this thread before we came as I had not realized they had no bathroom and with an 8 year-old in tow, it made for a difficult evening, running to a another restaurant so he could take care of things…
riddlemay wrote:mhill95149 wrote:I wish I had read this thread before we came as I had not realized they had no bathroom and with an 8 year-old in tow, it made for a difficult evening, running to a another restaurant so he could take care of things…
I actually thought it was illegal under city ordinance for any food establishment in Chicago not to have a restroom facility for customers. (But then, I thought it was illegal to raise chickens in your backyard.) I remember hearing this years ago, and experience has borne it out (i.e., I have never yet encountered an exception). Am I misinformed?
Darren72 wrote:riddlemay wrote:mhill95149 wrote:I wish I had read this thread before we came as I had not realized they had no bathroom and with an 8 year-old in tow, it made for a difficult evening, running to a another restaurant so he could take care of things…
I actually thought it was illegal under city ordinance for any food establishment in Chicago not to have a restroom facility for customers. (But then, I thought it was illegal to raise chickens in your backyard.) I remember hearing this years ago, and experience has borne it out (i.e., I have never yet encountered an exception). Am I misinformed?
They do have a restroom. You go through the kitchen off to your right.
mhill95149, did you ask and were told they didn't have one?
mhill95149 wrote:Darren, I'll assume but you post that at one time they allowed customers to use their bathroom but as of last night that is no longer the case.
cilantro wrote:I am excited to be able to confirm that on my one visit here (last summer) I used the restroom. The reason I remember it so clearly is that I was explicitly instructed on the path to use to get to said restroom, lest I take a wrong turn, panic, and fall into the dough or something. Everyone else who needed to used the restroom was also shown the true path and I am pleased to report that no one fell into the dough that evening.
I liked the pizza, but these guys are hilarious.
I want to try that #1 pizza. I have for years. But those prices for this kind of pizza is just ridiculous. And that kind of service on top of it? What balls.mhill95149 wrote:$75 and change we spent for two pies and an incomplete salad.
TooHot wrote:As far as Great Lakes goes, sounds like management is totally lacking in an overpriced pizza place. I had a pizza store too. Between hotdogs, pizza's and soda from a gun, the owner can rake it in. That's why when I see outrageous prices for these items I walk away. Thirty dollars for a pizza? C'mon...
Since you also had a hot dog place, I'm curious what you think about $10 sausages at Hot Doug's? (The nerve of that guy, eh!)
Vitesse98 wrote:Oh, that's silly....
Vitesse98 wrote:However, he and his staff do ask that the airlock door be kept shut, but that's to keep the draft out of the eating area.
ronnie_suburban wrote:Please, folks, let's keep the discussion focused on Great Lake, not on ordinances/enforcement or other more general issues that would be best discussed elsewhere.
Katie wrote:This is focused on Great Lake. Whether or not it has a bathroom available to patrons is a reasonable thing to want to know.
jvalentino wrote:Obviously all these service issues aren't imagined. I will say that in the 10 or so times I've been I've never experienced anything but pleasantries. I haven't seen anyone else being treated poorly either.
Just my experience,
Jeff
hotsauceandbluecheese wrote:jvalentino wrote:Obviously all these service issues aren't imagined. I will say that in the 10 or so times I've been I've never experienced anything but pleasantries. I haven't seen anyone else being treated poorly either.
Just my experience,
Jeff
I'd like to cosign this post. Been there about the same number of times and never observed anything other than reasonably friendly service.
Vitesse98 wrote:I mean, I've wanted to come here for a long time, but I've never made it, not because the prices are high (though they are), and not because it's hard to get there from Oak Park (it is), but because I'm not willing to pay those prices plus pay the potential metaphoric price of long waits, erratic service, etc.