Dinner and a Show
Posted by jen May 1st, 2009 in Bitch Session, Jeneral. 2 Comments(I just sent this letter to national Operations email address)
2 CommentsDear National Amusements,
Right now as I’m writing this I’m trying to decide what to eat for dinner after “eating dinner” at your theatre. See I’m trying to decide what would be willing to puke up later should the food poisoning I fear I might have gotten from your food should hit.
See, we decided to splurge today and try the local Cinema de lux in Springdale, Ohio and see Wolverine on opening night in one of your “directors halls”.
It cost a little more than going to the Rave (our usual fave) but the prospect of ordering food from our seats was nice since we were starving and we hoped it would be a better behaved and more adult crowd (wasn’t, still had a chatty housewife and a screaming baby).
It had taken me a while to even find out more about your Director’s Hall Theatres. There is precious little info on your site, and certainly not connected to the page for my theatre where I’d of course want to be able to access it. I had to google it and read a newspaper article in Connecticut about it to get what it was. So there is a head up for you, fix your site. It’s cumbersome as hell.
So anyway, back to the show:
We ordered moments before the opening credits. Finally.
Our food didn’t come until well after the movie started. Like 30 min into it. We had ordered two burger combos (burger, fries, drink) but came on ONE paper tray piled so high it as impossible to deal alone with as there was no place to put it. We sat it on the floor and started eating in the dark. They hadn’t brought any ketchup packets, the burgers, while large, were dressed poorly (barely any ketchup, NO mayo or NO cheese as ordered)
The fries were cold, and limp, largely inedible. The burgers were all but lukewarm… well raw.
Not rare, RAW. There was a cooked outer shell, After a few bites I noticed that meat seemed well… mushy. Soft even. I stuck my finger into the meat, in the dark mind you, and felt the patty. Wet, cool and it pulled away and molded easily in my fingers. My stomach tuned. My husband was so hungry he had devoured his without too much thought other than it was food, and he is a man that likes everything charred to a cinder. I sat mine aside.
After the movie I got a look at it. Not only was my burger raw it wasn’t bloody. Meaning it was barely cooked. Ground beef only gets blood after it gets hot as the fibers break down releasing the juices, this did not even get hot enough to do this, so it was beyond rare. It was raw.
All in all it was a confusing experience, once we’re not sure we’ll repeat, we’ll stick with the Rave. At least they won’t try to kill me.
Jen Segrest
Wow, your food experience was worse than ours there last Thursday. We went to see a movie in the director’s hall, but ate prior. We were going to eat at Chatter’s because the website menu had at least two vegetarian items, but when we got there the menu on the podium outside the place only had cheese sticks as far as veg. We ended up eating two $4 slices of pizza at Sbarro and a $5.50 order of cheese sticks. Pizza was cold and seemed as if it had been there since lunch. One slice was the size of a forth of a pizza, the other was small. The cheese sticks were freshly made, but I hated them. How is it possible to screw up fried cheese???? The batter around them tasted like corndog or something, it was really gross. Yeah from now on ANYWHERE ELSE for dinner prior. Even if whatever we get isn’t the best, it will have been cheaper.
Sounds awful. I hope you didn’t get sick. Eating in the dark and seeing afterwards the food was bad, reminds me of some urban legends.