Yuchan Shokudo (formerly Yakitori Yuchan) — Restaurant in Davis

Although the cuisine is pretty fair, their business practices are not so good and makes the restaurant and owner(s) come across very cheap and careless how they may come across to their customers.

I ordered a $15 Ika (calamari) dish which contained 6 small pieces, which made the dish $3 for each piece. Quite a lot if you ask me. Once at my table, I asked the server if my dish comes with a dipping sauce? She replied, "Yes, you have a choice of Spicy or Regular Garlic Mayo sauce". I chose Regular Mayo sauce.

Once my dish arrived, I noticed that there were no sauces. I asked my server, who responded that it does not come with it, but for a $1 I could get one. So, I gave my server $1 and thought that was it.

Well not quite!!!!! My server came back and said I forgot to include the tax!!!! and the price is now $1.18. So I gave her an additional 25c and to keep the change.

Well not quite over yet!!!!. My server came back and asked for 3c more because the total price is now $1.28. I told her that I could not believe she came back for 3c???? She insisted that I must give her an additional 3c which I did not have in my pocket and therefore one of my guests gave her a nickel.

The unfortunate bottom line for these practices is that the restaurant put its reputation on the line for a lousy $1.28, but more importantly for the additional 3 cents by coming back to my table and asking for it.

My recommendation is to ask questions at the time of the order and to read the menu carefully, which says the sauce is an extra $1 and do not take for granted whatever the servers are telling you.

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I understand this restaurant is popular but I have to say the service was quite bad. The host was very rude from the moment I walked in. He said there would be a 1-hour wait to get a table but he seemed too aggressive in the way he talked to me. I didn't walk under the rain to be treated poorly in this restaurant. I saw people waiting outside for a table but I didn't want to wait outside because it was raining. The host said I needed to get a drink and I explained I had to wait for my two friends to show up. Frankly at this point I would've left if I didn't have to wait for my friends. When my friends arrived the host was again rude to them then we approached the bar to order a drink and the host told us to wait at a table next the entrance, but he talked to us again in a very aggressive way. When he was gone we were finally able to order our drinks at the bar and then go back to the table to wait. Both of my friends were surprised to see how rude the host was with us and other customers too. Was that because he was stressed maybe because the place was understaffed? I have no idea but I think customers should be treated better. I guess the policy of the restaurant is being somewhat aggressive, they don't accept some credit cards, no Google pay or anything like that, you need a key to use the restroom, etc. Finally after 45 minutes we got a table and our waiter was ok and I must say I enjoyed the food. But would I go back to this restaurant? Not really. A restaurant isn't only about food. Service matters. And this place needs to improve a lot in...

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