So Yaeka and I had big plans on Friday night. We were going to go see Kill Bill Vol. 2 and on the way have some dinner. While debating what to do about dinner on the way home, she suggested Cucina Cucina. I had never been there, was feeling a little Italian, and it was right next to the movie theater. What could make more sense?
Cucina has a slogan about being fast, friendly, and fun. Well to sum it up shortly, it sucked. First, there weren’t really any veggie options which sucked. We sat there at our table and debated what to do, maybe just leave, but then decided to stay and picked out what we’d eat. We did all this before the waitress even came by.
Finally, probably close to 10 minutes later (this isn’t the too fast part), the waitress shows up and took our orders, she was too slow to do the beverage bit first. So we order and get our water and like 2 minutes, seriously, our food shows up. Normally I wouldn’t complain, but it was just really weird that our food got there that quick. I think the reason Cucina’s menu is so limited is that they only had so much room for the huge vats of pre-made food that they scooped it from.
All right, so food is here quick, I guess we’ll start eating. Our waitress comes by about 5 minutes after we got the food and says, “That got here fast.” We reply yeah, still extremely confused when she asks “So anything for dessert?” Yaeka and I still had about one half to three quarters of our food left and she’s already asking about dessert?! We say no because really how do we know if we want dessert?
The rushed theme continued moments later when what I guess is a manager type (he was wearing a tie) that looked a lot like the host in Ferris Bueler’s Day Off at the French restaurant, walked by, then stopped and took two steps back. He looked at Yaeka and asked if she was done. She still had half a plate of food left! Yaeka said no, now more confused than ever. Shortly after our waitress came by with the check while we still had about half a plate left. It was one of the oddest things ever.
This is why I really really hate going out to eat a lot of the time. You end up paying more than you would making it yourself and there’s a very high chance of being terribly disappointed. I think a lot of it was that we got a bum waitress. She was sort of awkward and just really weird. I think she was a robot. The other tables seemed to be having regular interaction with their servers so that’s what I think.
I could understand if the place was hopping, but we got there before the big dinner rush so really it was just like they were operating at warp speed way too early. We were so bugged out by it that we filled out a comment card at the table and some busboy walked by nervous although he wasn’t part of the problem, but good for him for caring. I still plan on e-mailing them.
So whatever you do, don’t go to cucina cucina! Kill Bill was good though.
You forgot to tell them about how the waitress tried to box up my food when you were still eating.