Irish Pub & Grill

New owners coming soon.  The purchase of the business/property should be finalized today.  As soon as the liquor control commission can approve the paperwork, it will be re-opened with much of the same food.  There are certainly things that will change, as with any ownership change.

Just for the record, Irish Pub closed at the end of March.  It was a sad sad day for reuben lovers.

How do business owners not know how their staff is treating people?  One fine example of this is my most recent trip to a local pub called The Irish Pub.  We went there because we saw an advertisement for $1 off Michigan brews on Thursday nights.  We decided to give it a try.  We have been there in the past and it was okay...we absolutely love the club sandwich, but the rest of the place is forgettable.  
  So as always we walk in and seat ourselves (normal with a bar).  However I must say that I would really appreciate bars/restaurants having a sign saying either "seat yourself" or "please wait to be seated" so I do not look lost as I stand in the doorway awkwardly wondering what to do.  Anyways, we have been there before so we knew that we needed to seat ourselves.  We were trying to decide if we were going to stay there for dinner or if we were just going to have a drink and move down to the next place.  Like always we were one of about ten different people in there.  That is tragic because there are quite a few colleges around town so on a Thursday night the place should be hoppin!
  To be honest our server was not too rude to us.  She just did not know her beer.  She rattled off about six beers off of the top of her head (mainly Bud, Bud Light, Coors, etc).  So me being a lover of brown ale's and porters I ask what they have for either one of those.  She just stared at me and told me a list of IPA's.  I do not like IPA's so I asked her if they had any browns or porters.  She looked at me and said "I have no idea."  Then just just stood there.  Now, I know that this is not that big of a deal but I have been a server before and I have always worked with the public so I know that what I always do when I do not know something; I find out.  She made no effort of finding out and she just shrugged her shoulders and stared at me.  I normally would have just ordered something that she had named off, but I am so sick of people not helping me and then I have to tip them?  I of course feel guilty even if we get bad service we always tip 20%.  So I stared back at her and said well I will take a brown ale or a porter.  My fiance got a little skirmish at this point and he went up and looked at the board that they have with all of the different brews that they have.  They did have a porter and I ordered that.  We left after this and to be honest we probably will not go back for a while.
 Like I said that really isn't that big of a deal, but at the same time it also is not a big deal for her to take four steps back and read the list of brews that they have.  I just do not understand.  Maybe that is why a lot of the businesses around here are empty.  If you do not treat your guests as if they were in your home then why would they ever come back?  This is a note to owners and managers: if you would like your business to thrive then your employees need to know that they need to know the menu and if they do not then simply find out.  That is what I was taught while employed at the different restaurants that I worked for.
  I will eventually go back to let them try and redeem themselves.  I know that I am not special and I do not deserve special treatment in any way shape or form.  I do know that I am not the only person who has been dissatisfied at this location.  I can't be the place was empty.