Reply #10: i dunno but i will say this

[pitohui]

if my meal were interrupted by a fire or a fire alarm then it isn't the experience that i paid for and to be honest the meal should be comped/discounted if they would ever want me back

being jolted out of one's bed in a hotel by a screaming fire alarm is nasty enough but to have a meal interrupted is something i've never experienced and hope i never will, ugh

i don't believe "obviously enjoyed" the meal is a correct description of an occasion which ends in you evacuating the building in fear for your life, with a screaming siren in your ear, something which stresses me out for at least an hour

it strikes me from your story that the manager has experienced this before and knows what will happen, my suggestion, find out what you're doing wrong to keep setting off the fire alarm and stop shrilling in people's ears while they're trying to eat and maybe you'll be a more successful manager? just a thought, not that i'd say it to his face

some people are really, really stressed by screaming alarms and the possibility of fire and frankly i happen to be one of them

i bet some people will come back the next day and pay, that's probably what i would have to do, i would not stick around and rubberneck a possible fire once the meal was already ruined, what's the point?

eating at a sit down restuarant is not about "a full belly," it's about an experience, you can get a "full belly" at a drive in fast food place with food the same quality of applebee's (which is not very high imho, sorry, but i'm from new orleans and we have real food here so there's no excuse for it anyway), a fire alarm sorry that just totally wrecks it