Christos Greek Restaurant — Restaurant in Minneapolis

⭐+

The food at Christos Greek Restaurant is absolutely delicious… I’ve been ordering from Christos frequently and it never disappoints… Check my order history at Christos if you think I’m some random freeloader because I am very much a frequent paying customer.

Now, the parking experience! 🤪 I parked for a couple minutes to pick up food at Lu’s next door but all of the sudden a guard (exhibiting patterns of internal emergency triage mind you) yelled “YOU WANNA GET TOWED” with a tow truck staged in the lot as if like my parents both at home waiting for me because they found out I got a C- grade point average during my hardest semester in high school… therefore, I replied, “what law specifically says that I can’t park here for two minutes?” and then followed it up with, “yes sure tow me let’s go!”… before simply driving off the Christos parking lot… For the record, there were still multiple available spots for “customers” to park in… And in that instant, the M. Night Shyamalan twist took over real life yet again.

The problem is that the sign says only “customers”… Under Minnesota law, towing from private property requires conspicuous and specific posting… “Customers” is not conspicuous or specific… It is vague, indefinite, and legally insufficient… If a sign merely says “customers,” then any paying patron whether inside Christos or picking up food at an adjacent business fits the literal definition… Yelling towing threats at a loyal, paying customer is not enforcement… It edges into disorderly conduct… And under Minnesota law, threatening towing through intimidation without proper posting or authority doesn’t strengthen enforcement… it risks falling squarely under disorderly conduct and even the statute on terroristic threats.

Judicial construction teaches us this… At Christos Greek Restaurant, the determinative condition for lawful parking is that you be both a verified patron and physically inside the premises… Any claim otherwise belongs less to contract law and more to the realm of eating soup with merely a fork.

In my opinion, the towing policy as currently applied is less a policy and more a prima facie vestibule for an angry adult to exorcise their inner angry child while committing to racketeering for whichever towing company profits the most off of HUMAN suffering.

The food, however, remains superb… I mean… forget about IT!

If any of these listed parties are insistent upon contacting me, my only legal advice is as...

Our waitress had an attitude and yelled at us, and the manager didn't care. This was one of my friends' favorite restaurants, and he has been waiting to take me here for years. We had a reservation at 6:15 on Thursday, 9/21/23, but it still took them 10 minutes to seat us, even though they were at about half capacity, because they "didn't have any menus." (They hadn't inserted the daily specials page. Which honestly probably should have been done before 6:30 pm on any given day.) An elderly couple, who was standing behind my party of 3, had said they wanted to sit. So one of my friends politely asked if we could be seated without a menu. We were declined by the manager. We accepted that answer without any fuss. When the manager finally seated us, our waitress came to take our drink order. However, she only looked at our male friend, my other friend spoke up anyway, then turned and left before I had a chance to say anything. When she brought their drinks, one of them was wrong. She asked if we were ready to order, and my friend told her that I had wanted to place a drink order. The server cut her eyes at me with attitude and said, "You should have spoken up." I told her I'd like a beer. Then she started complaining about how busy they were. My friend asked us if we wanted to leave. Then the server puts her hands on the back of the empty chair, bends forward, and looks at each of us yelling, "Are you ready to order? Are you ready to order? Are you ready to order?" My friend asks to speak to the manager. The waitress went to the manager, said something to him, and walked away laughing, looking at our table. The manager continued to pack a to go order and didn't come over. I stood up to leave, so she rushed to get my beer and brought it over. I walk out, and my friends wait at the table for the manager. Five minutes later only one of my friends joined me outside, the other was still waiting to talk to the manager, who was apparently seating people, waiting tables, and taking orders instead of coming to speak to us. Another 5 minutes passed before my other friend came out, finally having spoken to the manager. The manager accused us of being impatient, which we weren't, and basically brushed him off, saying he would talk to...

The food ranged from fine (souvlaki had good flavor but was very dry) to very good (falafel) and the ambiance was cute and reminded me of a ma-and-pa Italian joint, but with Greek food. Unfortunately service was pretty awful. Our server was condescending. For example, when someone asked which soups she had today, she addressed the entire table and said “as a reminder, you’ll find the soups on the yellow page in the menu.” This was repeated a few times for various things as people ordered. Also, there was unnecessary friction and confusion around what we were “allowed” to order. What I mean specifically is that when we asked for more pita, our server said she’d need to check if we had more credits on our tab and if not they’re $1 each so how many would we like. We were not aware of how many credits we received or how or why…it was just a very confusing nickel-and-dime kinda system. And to make it more confusing, the souvlaki dish comes with a whole pita as part of the entree but the gyro dish does not and diners of that one are expected to use the quarter-cut pitas (harder to build a full wrap) that come from the aforementioned credits instead. So you end up in a situation where some people have their own pita, some need pita from the finite communal section to finish their dish, and some just munch of the communal pitas as a snack. Getting back to the service aspect, the meal was strangely paced. It took 3 hours from beginning to end with the appetizers coming out first followed by soup and salad shortly thereafter. A batch of communal pitas was brought at that point as well. Then there was a solid half hour between completely finishing the food and when the entrees came. The restaurant was not busy. Also, our server was nowhere to be found for a period of around 45 minutes and we starting placing new drink orders via the online system because our table was just kind...