Inspirations Fork & Table — Restaurant in Arlington

NOT FAMILY FRIENDLY

We came with a party of 9, 5 of those were children between the ages of 3 and 14. Everyone was so well behaved, and my son had one of the dollar store pumpkin decorations propped on top of his glass of water. Please note- it was NOT wet.

When the “head chef” brought the food out she rudely and dramatically took the pumpkin off his glass and placed it on the table next to us and loudly said “this is NOT for your glass”

This is typical of society at this point, I get a lot of people just don’t like kids anymore- but how often do you see well behaved kids and large families?

Food was ok- we likely would have come back but when I was checking out the kids walked outside to wait and were playing with the plastic pumpkins out front. These are SMALL, PLASTIC pumpkins- they CANNOT BE BROKEN. They moved 5 of them from the plant to the small outside table and sat their dolls around them.

This same chef comes over to the register and loudly says in front of me to the server “make sure you go out there and move the pumpkins back to the tree”

Are you serious ?!! I am paying over $200 for this meal in the middle of inflation and instead of “thanks for coming” or any other pleasantries, she instead says this?!

So I asked her if she thought that was appropriate- is her dollar store pumpkin worth being so nasty to a customer who just brought their family for a nice meal, spending their hard earned money just to be treated like this?

I cannot even comprehend how the HEAD CHEF thinks this is customer service!

Making a note how I rarely leave bad reviews, the food can be terrible and I won’t say anything. I much prefer leaving positive reviews. However her behavior, ESPECIALLY after finding out she was the head chef was so shocking I felt I had no choice. Especially considering that I confronted her and she doubled down on her nastiness towards my family.

We will never return, which should be a relief to this establishment as their pumpkins are totally safe.

As I am not sure how to respond to the response below- I am editing my original post and saying this is not a situation that was “felt”- it actually HAPPENED. A plastic pumpkin sitting on top of a 6 year olds glass of water is hardly a reason for a chef to RUDELY snatch it away while nastily talking to him. In what way is this ever acceptable? Would you speak that way to an adult? I’m sure you would not! But because it’s a child you think it’s acceptable?

Not sure that’s even an actual response, it was so poorly written it almost sounds like an AI...

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5-Star Review for Inspirations Fork & Table – Arlington, TX

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