Restaurant

Going to a restaurant with little children in tow is always an interesting experience.

Today Wayne had off work as Saturday is Veterans Day. Apparently that's a big holiday in the banking world so they were closed. He planned to spend the day with Lindsey to get in some one-on-one time, so plans were made for a breakfast out, followed by a visit to the Minnesota Children's Museum.

I decided to join them for breakfast out as I had a chiropractor's appt at 8:30 in the morning, so I went with them for breakfast, went to my appt, then went to work.

Since I had an appointment to go to, speedy service was of the utmost importance, and in our haste to save money we decided upon the Edina Grill for breakfast, since we had a coupon for them. They are not known for having the speediest service, however, and we waited and waited to have coffee brought to the table, to order our food, to get creamer, etc.

It is a rare thing when you can actually drain a coffee cup when you dine out for breakfast. Even if it isn't your server who passes you by with a coffee carafe in tow, someone is bound to refill your coffee when it hits the halfway mark.

Not so much today.

Today both Wayne and I sat with empty coffee mugs for quite some time and couldn't catch anyone's attention for a refill, much less to ask about our missing food for the hungry 3-year-old who kept asking where her pancakes were.

Lindsey looked over and saw that our coffee mugs were empty, promptly stood up, looked in the general direction of the server station and yelled at the top of her little lungs, "MORE COFFEE!"

Once the laughter died down, our coffee mugs were promptly refilled, our food immediately came out, and our check was delivered with haste to the table.

I'm not sure that they were really stepping up the service as much as desiring that the pre-schooler leave the restaurant as quickly as possible.