by Jen G Soon after I adopted Greenpointers, I took a class at Flux Factory, which I renamed: “Interviewing Not Like a Monster.” I’m abrupt, I interrupt, I don’t listen and I wanted to learn how to ask difficult questions with some tact.
We were to choose an interviewee, bring in questions, then during class we paired off and conducted the interview as a role playing exercise.
The man in the photograph is not Cody Utzman, owner…
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Love Papacito’s, but I really, really do not like the new decor.
Cody is a total scmuck. His reputation as an asshole precedes him because its true. He is single handedly ruining papacitos which WAS a great, well established neighborhood spot to get great fo
od. This revamping of papacitos included pushing put one of his partners, firing the resident staff, changing the recipe of the margaritas and pork tacos for the worse, and raising the prices. I used to frequent papacitos weekly, but unfortunately, its not the same place.
So we gave papacitos two more visits, just to be fair since it’s “being revamped”….we went on Cinco de mayo. We were happy to see not all the resident staff had been let go. Thank you Matt and Trish for your service. So we order off brunch menu, ten minutes later, the kitchen switched to the cinco de mayo menu, so we switched our order. We all got the shrimp special. Ten minutes later that special had been pulled off the menu. So we had to reorder a third time. And when the food came out it ended up being our original brunch order.?! Mind you, it was not crowded at that point in the day. We laughed and weren’t even upset..just thought wow! These people are going to have a long day. As usual though we did have to ask and wait for silverware and napkins. For some reason they never give you any….?? The music was awesome, the food was good! Even our service was good, mostly because we know the staff and tip heavy. But its clear there its internal issues with management. It’s always a different story with the checks. So we were told we had to give credit cards for each check. No problem. That server was going off duty, we all paid up and started a new tab. Or so we thought. End of night comes and its all on one check. No problem…but make a rule and stick to it. So after all that, we still go back last night and we ask for seperate checks and they say sure, then switch servers on us and give us a hard time. Tell us we can seperate it at end??? Manager did offer to buy round of shots which we declined…we will not be back nor will we be frequenting Royal or Standard.