Julie R. Neidlinger Review of McFadden's Restaurant and Salo...
The food was OK. Typical sports bar food. Typical ...
The food was OK. Typical sports bar food. Typical high-use sports bar cleanliness. Normally would give it a three star rating or so, but here's the weird thing: they have attendants in the restroom with a tip bucket.
I've been in a lot of fancy restaurants all over the world and only run into a few with a tipped attendant in the restroom and those were some very clean and high class restrooms. These restrooms are...sports bar restrooms. There was an empty beer bottle in the stall, and who knows what dry dripped down the side of the stool. Tissue on the floor...not super clean. And yet there was an attendant who sat at the door when you walked in. The first thing you see is what looks like a women's college dorm sink, the counter around the sinks covered in a mish mash of perfume bottles, hairspray bottles, lotion, suckers, mouthwash -- who knows what else. There were even plastic containers suctioned cupped to the mirror holding various toiletries and such. I've never seen anything like it -- it was like walking into a pharmacy. The gal was nice but you know, I didn't bring money with me into the restroom. It's a sports bar. I didn't expect an attendant. So while it was nice she pumped out some pretty smelling foam soap and handed me a paper towel...I had nothing to leave. And a place like that with dirty bathrooms and bar food and noisy patrons -- that is not a place for a restroom attendant that expects a tip. It is the weirdest thing I've encountered yet in all my travels.
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