The Beach Hut Cantina — Restaurant in Daytona Beach

Had the worst customer service experience here today! I don’t recommend this restaurant if you just want an easy, relaxing meal after a day on the beach.

Came in this afternoon as a group of 6 for lunch. There was only 1 table full and 2 customers at the bar. It’s a very small upstairs restaurant but it was empty. We walked in and weren’t greeted for at least 5 minutes. We didn’t know if we should sit wherever we wanted or what. Being that this is in a tourist location, we don’t know how this particular restaurant does things. That was immediately a bad first impression.

Then, the chick behind the bar finally greeted us and told us to order our food at the bar. We had a decent size order, being that it was 3 adults, 3 children. Our order came up to $150 which included an automatic $25 gratuity. Pretty pricy!! This was without appetizers, just regular meals and 2 cocktails which were only $13 each.

The price was shocking but whatever. We justified it as a nice vacation meal.

As soon as the food started rolling out it was a HOT MESS. We were first served an appetizer that we didn’t order. We didn’t even order an appetizer. Then she dropped off two beef tacos, which we only ordered one beef and one chicken. When my husband told her, she immediately copped an attitude! She was asked his name and said “okay yeah, you ordered that”! Excuse me, if we say we didn’t - we didn’t. Why would we make that up lol.

When I finally got my meal, it was also wrong. I ordered two different tacos and she brought me 3 of the same. It’s just so confusing that she messed that part of the order up. Because it was wrong on the bill too which we found out after.

After that, my husband asked for the receipt and starts telling her what we were missing. She very rudely held the receipt up and said “yeah, we look at the receipt as we are making the food.”

We never ended up receiving my correct meal, my son’s fries never came, one child didn’t receive her sauce.

It was just really frustrating to spend so much on a lunch only to be treated like we are just a burden.

I also have to mention that halfway through the meal we heard the same waitress/bartender telling a customer “I’ll make it when I make it! You can leave if you don’t like it!”

There was another guest that came in and was confused because she wasn’t greeted and the same employee was rude to her. She was so very clearly just annoyed with her job.

Then we saw her with her bike helmet leaving, so I’m guessing she was just ready to be out of there.

Sadly, even though the food was pretty good, we had an uncomfortable experience. I don’t recommend bringing your family to this location unless you don’t mind being treated poorly, charged incorrectly, and getting food you...

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